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-The San Diego Union Tribune
-In the newspaper today I read about the classic Chevy. It was about a guy named Ken Willers and his ’57 Bel Air. It says that he bought it from a Nebraska man for $8500 in 2001. he says that he has spent $64000 rebuilding it from the chassis up. “when I started into this I had no idea the attention this car would get”. The color is a tropical turquoise and India ivory. The ’57 Bel Air is the most popular thing General Motors ever built. It says that it is the chrome and fins is the reason why its most popular. In 1957 the price of a new Chevrolet started around $2300. now in 2007 the price of a 1957 Chevrolet can range from $15000 to $95000. ken willers 1957 Chevy bel air is now 50 years old and is worth around 73000 dollars. In the license plate for the car is LK MY 57 which I think stands for do you like my 57.
-I think that this is a pretty interesting article. I am pretty interested in classic cars like this one and admire the fact that people still pay attention to these cars.
-One interesting thing that I learned is that now after 50 years a 57 Chevy can cost up to 95000 dollars (wow).
Title: San Diego Union Tribune
I read about a storm in Columbus Ohio. Storms slammed rain soaked Ohio yesterday as hundreds of thousands of people in the Midwest were without power after their homes were battered by lashing winds and flooding rains. Tornado warnings were issued late last Sunday for parts of central southeast Ohio. Unspecified damage from straight-line winds was reported in the central part of the state, though a tornado had not been confirmed said National Weather Service meteorologist Andy Hatzos. Flooding last week spread across an 80 mile swath through the northwest and north-central parts of the state. Powerful storms rolling through the upper Midwest during most of the past week caused disastrous floods from southeastern Minnesota to Ohio that were blamed for 18 deaths. More than 100,000 customers were without power. About 120,000 ComEd customers in northern Illinois remained without power last Sunday. ComEd spokesman Joe Trost said that power to more than half a million customers had been restored since Thursday’s storms, but it could take days to restore power to all customers. The storms in Illinois were responsible for at least one death, when a man was struck by a wind toppled tree.
"nobel prize winner, Salk veteran named institute's interim president" ♥
This morning I read an article based on a nobel prize winner. The article was on Roger Guillemin and how he is now named interim president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies until the institute can fill the job permanately. Guillemin takes office on October 1st. He received the nobel prize for medicine and physiology in 1977 for discoveries that laid the foundation for brain hormone research. The work he did brought a light new class of substances that have shown to be important in the field of growth, development, reproduction and responses to stress. The spot he is filling is a position left vacant by the retirement of Richard Murphy on July 1st. Richard was the lead of the La Jolla based institute for the past seven years. Roger is very qualified for this job with his Nobel prize and his 37 years of experience with the Salk. Plus, he went to a college of medicine for 17 years before joining Salk.
This story is really meaningless to me. I could not have picked a more tiresome article to read. I did not enjoy this article and turuth be told, I don't care about this Roger Guillemin or his Nobel Prize. .... =(
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TROUBLED CHARTER SCHOOL MAY CLOSE
Children’s Academy in City Heights in risk of shutting down due to being financially mismanaged. This happened just days before students were to return to class. The school’s attorney Lisa Corr told a roomful of parents and students including teachers there was a real possibility the school will close. The first day of school was supposed to be on Monday. The school opened in 2005 at University and 39th and has served 168 students from K-6. It was planning to add a 7th grade this year. District officials told them this revoke may happen because of management and accounting problems. The school supposedly owes over $97,000 in fees and for numerous services.
I think this action was inevitable because of the money owed to the city. This action was bound to happen because schools cannot run with out money and grants. I disagree with the city because they should have informed the school about this problem earlier.
The academy’s budget exceeds $1 million a year, with the revenue coming from federal, state, and local governments.
Scientists can induce out-of-body experiences
There has been a new research on different methods to confuse sensory signals the brains receives, allowing people to seem standing aside and watching themselves. Researchers from Great Britain and Switzerland have figured out these methods of triggering the brain. This experiment does not use any kind of drugs, neither those that are legal. Experiment simply uses essential reality goggles, a camera and a stick. This is founded by scientists to bring sensations of traveling outside of one’s own body. When a person looks into the goggles they see an illusory gaze image of themselves, feeling as if they have left their body. This sense is stated to be constructed from multiple sensory streams. These streams include vision, touch, balance and sense where body is positioned in space, these all work together like a dream. But when the information coming from the sensory does not combine, they are released from synchrony or immediate event , making the sense of embodied as whole turn apart. The brain forces a decision that sense of bring in a different body. After severe and sudden injuries, people often report the sensation of floating over their body looking down, hearing what is said, suddenly finding themselves back inside their body. This new research is a step in figuring out how the brain creates the sensation. By manipulating a mismatch between touch and vision, the illusion demonstrates the body parts separated from the rest of the body. This new experiment is purposed to create whole body illusions with similar manipulations. I believe this a very intelligent new way to look at things. It seems like a great experience to be able to view outside of your body. But can this manipulating harm the brain?
*Atlanta seeks Vick bonus
The Falcons will attempt to reclaim $22million in bonuses already paid to Michael Vick. Vick was suspended indefinitely from the National Football League. He filed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in which he admitted to bankrolling a dog fighting operation. The suspension clears the way for the Falcons to get up on the bonus payments already made to Vick. The interesting part is that Vick must remain on the Falcons roster for the club to reclaim any money. If Atlanta receives the bonus money from Vick, it will be applied to the team’s salary cap for the following season. Vick admitted to conspiracy in a dog fighting ring and he said that the enterprise included killing pit bulls and gambling♣♣♣
This morning I read an article titled Wreckage of WWII sub found off Kiska, Alaska. The remains of a World War II submarine were discovered late last Wednesday. It vanished off the island of Kiska more than 60 years ago with a crew of 70. This discovery is a high point of a five-year search led by its commanders sons. A remote-controlled vehicle got pictures and video footage of the Grunion. The sub lies about 1,000 feet down and is severely damaged by water pressure. The Grunion patrolled the Aleutian Islands early in WWII. Its last radio message came on July 30, 1942. It described enemy activity at Kiska Harbor. The Grunion sunk two Japanese sub chasers and damaged a third near Kiska. After obtaining information from a model ship builder in Japan, an initial expedition to Kiska was launched in August 2006. Sub- shaped images sonar images prompted a second search this month. I think this is really cool and they can learn a lot from this discovery.
Today, I read an article on The San Diego Union Tribune called "Interest in fossils, even risque ones is up". This article was about a fossilized baculum, or penis bone from a walrus that was auctioned at the I.M. Chait Gallery. This piece of bone or tissue is more than 12,000 years old. But who would own such an odd thing? Lots of people, including technology executives, Hollywood producers and A-bidding celebrities. For this 4 ft long, weathered skin and dry muscle tissued organ, the bidding starts at 16,000. For some celebrities, fossil collecting has become a trndy hobby, but some scientists are concern about that because they say fossils should be in a museum where they are available to researchers, educators and the public. I think this is an interesting article because I didnt know many celebrities collected fossils.
Today I read about, Some fires started in Athens Greece that left people in villages trapped within walls of flame. The firefighter trucks could not get in. Air crafts were taking out the flames. Some air crafts had to be broaden down because of the high winds. People were calling the radio and television stations for help. A lot of people were scared that they weren’t going to come on time. The country has been vulnerable to flames because of all the trees that send heat waves and make the temperature rise over 100 degrees.
I think that it sucks for people who are in those villages and had to go thru all that fire. I feel bad for them.
At least 49 people were killed by the fire and still going out of control.
Union Tribune
Death Toll rises to 26 as floodwaters begin to recede in Midwest
In Findlay, Ohio water form the worst flood began receding. This allowed more than
1,000 homeowners to get a look at the soaked things in their basements. With more storms coming the tolls role up to at least 26 more people. In a county of Ohio alone the tally of damaged houses was more than 700. In Oklahoma City a body of a high school cross-country runner was recovered form a muddy rain swollen lake. He was swept away while trying to cross a flooded trail. He was 17 years old. This same day in Chicago’s airport 500 flights were canceled and others were delayed. The roof of a industrial building collapsed in the suburbs. This injured 40 people but there were no serious injuries. In Wheatland firefighters had a hard time putting jut a house fire because the building was surrounded by flood water. They had to take small boats out with pumps and draft form the surrounding water. This is very sad so many things happening all around the world. I think that it is great how people help each other.
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