The scientist found a new species of frog. That inflates his nose. they called it "Pinocchio-like" nose and they found it in a remote section of Indonesian rainforest in Southeast Asia. These means that the species are adapting to their environment. That means they are trying to survive because someting bad is happening to the ecosystem and the enviorment.OUR OPINION is that is very interesting to know about the variaty of our world. We also think that this frog is extrordinary and cool, somthing out of thi world.
One of the most productive petroleum platforms exploded.Many people died , many disappeared and many many are injured .The owner company said they will be responsible for the spill and they told they will try to fix the problem.
Our opinion about this problem is that they need to fix this NOW!! Therese a lot of animals dying because of the spill and also reefs are dying. So they need to do something, NOW or many more animals will die.
viernes, 14 de mayo de 2010
In a political protest in Bangkok, a sniper shot a man so close that the bullet felt that it struck his head. On thursday night Thomas Fuller dicribed to CNN what happen exactly and how it felt like to be there in that exact moment."I was facing him, he was answering my questions, looking at me and the bullet hit him in the forehead, from what I could tell," Fuller told CNN's Michael Holmes. "It looks like the bullet came over my head and struck him. I don't have any way of confirming this beyond what I remember from the scene but it felt like it grazed my head."
jueves, 6 de mayo de 2010
Thousands of protesters in cities across the United States waved American flags as they rallied Saturday against Arizona's tough new immigration law and pushed for national immigration reform.
"Si se puede," "Yes we can" and "Boycott Arizona" were common refrains for groups protesting from Los Angeles, California, to New York City.
May 1 is traditionally a rallying day for supporters of immigration reform. But protesters across the country said they were galvanized by Arizona's recent passage of a law cracking down on illegal immigration.
The new Arizona law requires immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and requires police to question people if there is reason to suspect they are in the United States illegally. Critics say it will lead to discrimination and racial profiling.
But Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has said the law is necessary because the federal government has failed to enforce border security with Mexico, allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to move into the state. She said changes to the law she approved Friday, which clarify that police could only stop suspected illegal immigrants while enforcing some other law or ordinance, should eliminate concerns about racial profiling. from cnn that is really bad for everyone who are foreigners.
we as latinos we are going to be disriminated because we are latinos i think that is unfair and it is very dangerous because there are people that are very discriminative and they could call the police just to get us out of ther¿ir coountrie that is REALLY REALLY UNFAIR to us the FOREIGNERS.
Baboons and humans are coming into close contact because of the need of land or habitats. Humans are taking apart their habitat. Because humans and baboons are in the same place they are having conflicts. Because of the conflicts farmers want to kill the baboons but others want to find an other solution.
Our opinion is that they need to move the baboons to a other habitat special for them so they have conflicts.
lunes, 12 de abril de 2010
brazilian flood
Brazilian President Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday the government will do everything possible to help victims of flooding and mudslides that have killed at least 229 people and left thousands homeless.
Lula said he will immediately make available 200 million Brazilian reais (about $112 million) in emergency funding to the state of Rio de Janeiro, where heavy rains that started Tuesday have caused widespread death and destruction.
"We can now say that the Brazilian people are saddened by what has happened in Rio de Janeiro and asking God, praying much, that it stops raining and Rio can return to normality," the presidentThe largest number of victims from Wednesday's landslides have occurred in the city of Niteroi, where 146 people have died, Agencia Brasil said Sunday evening, citing fire department officials.
The flood happened in the poor barrios of Rio de janeiro.
The Polish President was killed by an air disaster.Saturday morning the polish president which is Lech Kaczynski was buried with his wife which also died in the accident.The bodies may lay in in state at the Presidential Palace ahead of the funeral. They expect to find the ones who are responsible for the accident.
Our opinion is he was a very good president and he didn't deserve to die.
A man high on marijuana and drunk on Johnny walker black label put his 5-week-old son in the oven Sunday and left him there overnight, police said the oven door was slightly ajar, and the oven was not turned on. After smoking marijuana at the restaurant where he works as a cook, Larry Long, 33, returned home to share a fifth of whiskey with the baby's mother, Brandy Hatton, McCracken County Sheriff Jon Hayden said in a statement. Hatton had four or five shots and went to bed while Long finished the bottle, Hayden said. At 5:30 the next morning, Hatton awoke to the sound of the baby's cries coming from the oven. He had been in it for several hours, police said.
Because of contaminated and polluted water kills people and brings violence that brings wars."At the beginning of the 21st century, the world faces a water crisis, both of quantity and quality, caused by continuous population growth, industrialization, food production practices, increased living standards and poor
Water use strategies," the report by the U.N. Environmental Program says. water management is considered ecosystem-based management that operates fresh water and marine across borders.
Our opinion is because of that we have to learn to take care of water in our planet so that it does not extinguish and also we have to learn how to manege it so we don't have wars.
While the heroic efforts of saviors in Europe have increasingly come to light in the years since World War II, El Salvador which when translated into English means 'the savior' is receiving increased attention for the role it plays in saving tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.
On November 22, 1995, former U.S. President, Bill Clinton, in a letter to the Anti Defamation League, wrote: "The Salvadoran government showed compassion in the face of injustice. Their courage in Nazi occupied Hungary, serves as an example of selflessness. I am confident their actions will remain an inspiration for generations to come."
El Salvador is the smallest of the Central American republics, with a population of 7 million. Between 30,000-50,000 Hungarian Jews were saved, during the Holocaust, in what was known as the "El Salvador Action."
The men who made this possible were Colonel Jose Arturo Castellanos, El Salvador's Consul-General in Geneva, and his First Secretary of the Consulate, George Mantello, a Hungarian Orthodox Jew from Beszterce, Transylvania.
After escaping from the Nazis in Yugoslavia in 1941, Mantello fled to Switzerland, where a year later he began his career in the Salvadoran Consulate.
He had been a textile manufacturer in Bucharest when he met Consul Castellanos in the 1930s. During Mantello's business trips to Europe he received reports of Jews who had escaped from Auschwitz. He decided to help as many of them as possible to emigrate to Hungary and Romania, and from there to Palestine, England and the U.S.
Having secured his connections in Romania and Hungary, Mantello spoke to Castellanos about extending Salvadorian citizenship certificates to Jews in Europe to avoid deportation.
On Castellanos's suggestion, in 1942 the Salvadoran Consulate issued thousands of "citizenship certificates" to Jews from different parts of Europe. Holders of certificates were considered citizens of El Salvador, and protected by the International Red Cross.
Florian Manoliu, Counselor of the Rumanian Legation in Bern, who traveled between Switzerland and Rumania, distributed the "passports" to Hungarian Jews. Printed in Geneva, but not valid without the holder's personal information, the passports arrived by courier and then went to Consul Lutz for distribution to Jews at the Swiss Consulate.
Castellanos convinced the Swiss government in Hungary to look after individuals with certificates of Salvadorian citizenry. In 1944, Julio Enrique, Salvadorian Foreign Relations Minister, formalized the request with the Swiss. The Hungarian government approved the bilateral agreement.
When the Swiss Government took over protection of the Salvadoran papers, they instructed their Consul in Budapest, Charles Lutz, to offer protection to anyone carrying the documents. "Distribution of passports was a death sentence for people who didn't receive one," according to Lutz, but they turned out to be the most valuable protective papers of all.
Mantello was also responsible for another rescue effort. First he instigated a press campaign to inform the press about the fate of Jews in German-occupied countries, and requesting that the Allies publish the news around the world. Although even Jewish organizations didn't believe what was happening in Hungary, the press campaign led to the end of the deportations to Auschwitz from Budapest by 1944.
Help came from two young Slovak-born Jewish inmates of Auschwitz Alfred Wetzler and Walter Rosenberg, who had escaped with the help of the underground in Auschwitz, and wanted desperately to tell the world about the atrocities in the Polish death camp.
They had witnessed preparations in gas chambers for the extermination of the one million Jews still living in Hungary under Fascist Regent Admiral Horthy. Jews had been safe until Germany's barbarity and the Hungarian government's complicity led the Germans to occupy Hungary in 1944.
Wetzler and Rosenberg worked at the Auschwitz registry, and memorized a lot of pertinent data. Once they joined the Jewish underground in Slovakia, they provided a 30-page report, which became know as the Auschwitz Protocols.
When the Protocols reached Switzerland, Jewish organizations brought them to the U.S. Consulate in Geneva. But the Allies put the reports in their "official" wastebaskets and did nothing, as 12,000 Jews a day were killed by the Nazi death factory at Auschwitz.
Mantello found the Protocols when he sent Florian Manoliu, to Transylvania to rescue his family, a mission that was undertaken too late, because his parents had already been shipped to Auschwitz.
In May, 1944, Mantello created 1,000 citizenship papers pre-signed and ready for anyone to place their data and photos on them. Manoliu gave the certificates to Moshe Krausz, who left him with an abbreviated copy of the Protocols, which covered the gassing of 1,765,000 Jews through April, 1944.
"Publish these reports, so that the world may learn of the cruelties committed in the Twentieth Century, in so-called civilized countries," Mantello said. Thousands of copies were circulated to politicians, Members of Parliament and other prominent people, telling them to spread the news.
Despite protests by the Hungarian and German embassies in Switzerland, 400 newspapers carried the story about the 12,000 Jews being killed every day, often with front-page coverage. This led to the suspension of deportations by the Hungarian Regent, Admiral Horthy, in July 1944.
Within days after the cables were sent, U.S. President Franklyn Roosevelt sent a warning to Hungary through Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, to stop the deportation, as did Pope Pius XII and King Gustav of Sweden.
The rescue operation succeeded because of Mantello's Salvadoran supporters: Colonel Castellanos, and the Salvadoran government and Josef Gustavo, a former president of El Salvador and former judge at the Hague, who was then residing in Geneva and offered Mantello moral support.
As a diplomat George Mantello used his political and business contacts to devote time and money to assisting Jews. He was aided by his brother Josef Mandel. Having brought their fortune to Switzerland to invest in the rescue, they never took money to support their rescue efforts.
El Salvador was the only country offering passports to Jews. They were sent to thousands of Jews in occupied countries across Europe, free of charge, in the midst of the lucrative black market for false papers. After the war, Colonel Castellanos had been the El Salvador Minister in London.
The Anti-Defamation League honored the Salvadoran diplomats, George Mantello, Colonel Jose Arturo Castellanos and Julio Avila, whose actions led to the rescue of thousands of Jews during World War II. In1999 Israel honored the granddaughter of Colonel Castellanos, by naming El Salvador Street in the neighborhood of Givat Mesua.
Embassy of El Salvador
George Mandel-Mantello (left) and Jose Arturo Castellanos.
WASHINGTON – During the Holocaust, an estimated 30,000 Jews were protected by their status as citizens of a small, Central American country.
And on Wednesday, the Embassy of El Salvador was letting the world know.
Colonel Jose Arturo Castellano
s, a figure who has remained relatively unknown in the annals of Holocaust history, made a significant difference by issuing Salvadoran citizenship certificates to Jews across Europe, in his capacity as Salvadoran Consul General in Geneva.
Now, more than 60 years later, the Salvadoran government is seeking to have Castellanos declared “righteous among the Nations,” by Holocaust remembrance authority Yad Vashem. The title is awarded to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.
In addition to Castellanos, El Salvador Consulate First Secretary George Mandel-Mantello, a Romanian Jew, played an equally important role.
The granting of Salvadoran citizenship papers started when a French-Jewish refugee approached Mandel-Mantello about getting documents for a number of French Jews.
These were granted and then Montello began issuing citizenship papers to Jews he knew and those brought to him through Jewish organizations. Castellanos authorized and put his full support behind the practice, even though he had no authority to approve manufacturing of the certificates.
And when the two finally partnered with the Swiss Legation, the certificates were distributed to a far broader population. By the end of the war, 10,000 documents were distributed, often with multiple family members on each.
When the war ended though, Castellanos rarely talked about it.
For years his daughter, Frieda Garcia, knew nothing of her father’s actions, but now is helping bring them to light.
“The memory of our father is out of the desk, out of the drawers and on the table again,” Garcia said at the news conference held at the Salvadoran Embassy.
The people who spoke there included Garcia, Mandel-Mantello’s son, Salvadoran ambassadors Rene A. Leon and Ricardo Moran Ferracuti, along with Brad Marlowe and Leonor Avila de Marlowe, the husband-wife team that recently created “Glass House,” a documentary chronicling the story.
Latin America’s involvement with the Holocaust was checkered, as the panelists demonstrated.
Bolivia and the Dominican Republic, for example, “opened the doors on Jewish immigration during the Holocaust years, while others accepted Nazi criminals as refugees after the war,” said Dina Siegel Vann, who is Jewish and from Mexico. She spoke at the event as the director for Latin and Latin America at the American Jewish Committee.
But the spotlight is now beginning to shine on other countries, as well.
“Castellanos and the little country of El Salvador became the means for all these thousands of people to survive,” Leonor Avila de Marlowe said.
The earthquake that had struck on Chile on Saturday may have shifted the Earth's axis and created shorter days, the scientists from NASA had said.This change is permanent.Each day should be 1.26 microseconds shorter, according to preliminary calculations. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.When that distribution changes, it changes the rate at which the planet rotates. And the rotation rate determines the length of a day.Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California determined that the earthquake should have moved the Earth's figure axis about 3 inches (8 centimeters). The figure axis is one around which the Earth's mass is balanced. That shift in axis is what may have shortened days.He used a computer model to determine how the magnitude 8.8 quake that struck Chile on Saturday may have affected the Earth.
The magnitude 9.1 earthquake in 2004 had generated a killer tsunami in the Indian Ocean that shortened the length of days by 6.8 microseconds.On the other hand, the length of a day also can increase. For example, if the Three Gorges reservoir in China was filled, it would hold 10 trillion gallons (40 cubic kilometers) of water. The shift of mass would lengthen days by 0.06 microsecond, scientists said.
Our opinion is that it is a very interesting thing that all humans need to know. Because It was one of the five hardest earthquakes in human history. Thats impressive!!
The avalanche hit a remote village in Kohistan district, about 200km (124 miles) north of Islamabad. The regional police chief said roads had been blocked by landslides and several feet of snow. "Rescue workers are facing a lot of problems," a local police official was quoted as saying by AFP news agency. "We fear that some women and children were also trapped," Mohammad Sadiq told AFP.
Tghere was a great avalanche inKohistan district, about 200km (124 miles) north of Islamabad.
A suicide car bomber has killed at least 18 people and injured 80 at a government forensics centre in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The enemy had tried to drive through a police checkpoint and blast walls protecting the centre in the Kerrada district. The building was very damaged by the massive explosion and the ruins are now being search by rescue teams. On Monday a bomb attacks some hotels in the city and had killed 36 people. This is the most recent in a series of attacks on buildings, including those to do with crime and punishment. There have been fears that attacks will increase as the parliamentary election approach in March and those predictions seem to be coming true. Most of the casualties were staff from the forensics centre, he said, adding that it had been under attack by two bomb attacks in the past. Hassan al-Saidi, a mechanic who works in the area, said he had seen at least five vehicles in flames and more than a dozen people wounded by flying glass. The Associated Press news agency reported that rescue teams in blue jumpsuits were coming through the wreckage of the three-story building as a crane removed some of the fallen blast walls. A lot of funerals have been taking place on Tuesday for victims of some Monday's attacks. Our opinion is that is very bad that a lot of people are dead because of the bombs. We hope that type of killing stops so no more people are dead .
On 12 January 2010, there was a terrible earthquake in Haiti. The earthquake has been described as the largest earthquake recorded in Haiti in two hundred years. An earthquake of magnitude 7 degrees on the scale of Richter has destroyed West of the area. The hardest hit city is the capital Port-au-Prince, where hundreds of buildings fell with thousands of people inside.
A gigantic and deadly winter storm is spreading across the US Midwest, with freezing rain and heavy snow causing road and air transport a chaos.
The worst part of the storm is expected to hit on Thursday and drop up to 2ft (61 cm) of snow by Christmas Day.
The icy roads were blamed because of the deaths of 12 motorists, but mostly in Nebraska, Kansas and Arizona. There were also 100 flights leaving Minneapolis that were canceled because of the snow and the icy roads.
The national weather service (NWS) had publish blizzard warnings early on Thursday for Kansas and parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska and the Texas panhandle. They had said, "There's just a gigantic storm that is moving across the centre of the country , basically from the Canadian border to Texas and is spreading from west Colorado to Illinois . They also had recommended some things the people could do.
Also the freezing rain and high winds were making driving extremely dangerous. The latest storm began in the south-west on Tuesday, causing blizzard-like conditions and travel chaos, before spreading to the east and north.
South of the storm system, heavy thunderstorms will produce flooding across Texas and into the Ohio Valley, forecasters warned. Flights at Chicago's two main airports were running on schedule, officials said, after the storm forced the cancellation of more than 260 flights on Wednesday.
What we think as a group about this new is that is very bad that the storm had caused many deaths and that a lot of flights were canceled. But is very nice to have snow at that time because it will make Christmas a beautiful time.
