Current Events Assignment 4
1. Parks and Recreation people get two free VIP passes to ACL. Tom Donovan received the tickets this year, and the foundation defended it, saying that it was for work purposes. Parks board member Rick Cofer and Council member Don Zimmerman have decided to forgo the tickets, under the grounds of it being a conflict of interest. Sabine Romero expressed in an email that it's okay for the Mayor and council members to accept the tickets. Council member Ora Houston gave the passes to 3-1-1 operators as a thank you, and Ann Kitchen's staff used theirs, and suspects that they will use the passes next weekend as well. I personally think it's a bit strange, if only because we have to save up money and pay for our tickets, while they not only get tickets for free, they're VIP tickets.
2. There has been a stay in all death-penalties, because when they were trying to give someone the lethal injection, the prison was sent the wrong drug. Texas and Virginia have solved this by trading the drug. Midazolam is a short acting sedative, that has proved very unreliable, and because of it being unreliable, drugs for lethal injections and death penalties are becoming increasingly hard to get a hold of, and are causing all these mishaps to occur.
3. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel barred his ministers from visiting a contested old city holy site, and ordered the police to stop members of the Parliament from going there as well. He did this because he did not want to alter the status quo at the site. Arab members of the Parliament said that they did not agree with the decision and would defy it by ascending to worship at al-Aqsa on Sunday. Muhanad Halabi is a law student at Al Quds University who was shot and killed by Israeli security forces after stabbing two Orthodox men and wounding one of their Wives and toddler son.
4. Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarussian Journalist and prose writer won the Nobel Prize "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." She is most famous for her deeply researched works on female Russian Soldiers in WW2 and the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It is a rarity for her to have won the prize, because her works are mainly non-fiction. Sventlanas' works often blend literature and journalism. She looked to the future with determination and contentment.
5. Prof. Daniel S. Hamermesh was scared to teach at UT, because of the increased risk of the concealed carry law, and is refusing to teach his class next fall. The American-Statesman got this information by interviewing Daniel. He is the first teacher to actually follow through with the threat of quitting, which makes it a kind of "first" there. He had originally retired last year, but agreed to teach his large lecture course until 2017, so the law is not the only reason that he is quitting.
FREE-RESPONSE
Column: PhoneSoap
The PhoneSoap thing cleans your phone in minutes because apparently our phones are 18 times dirtier than a public restroom toilets, which is disgusting. The contraption uses UV-C light to penetrate the cells and destroy the pathogens. I, personally, did not know that my phone is that nasty, and now I don't want to touch it at all. I think that it would probably be a good investment if you have problems with germs, but other than that, I don't think it's really something that I would buy.
The electronic edition of the paper obviously isn't the same as a normal paper made newspaper, because it's electronic, but other than that i think the layout of everything is the same because what would be the point of changing the layout of the newspaper just because it's electronic? What's nice is that you can look at the older editions of the newspaper, without really having to go somewhere and root around for it, and that goes for that days news as well. It's more accessible to people in general, really. For example, if you don't get the newspaper delivered to your door, and you want to read it, then you can just subscribe to the electronic edition. Plus, it might cut back the amount of paper that is used for the paper copies of the newspaper
2. There has been a stay in all death-penalties, because when they were trying to give someone the lethal injection, the prison was sent the wrong drug. Texas and Virginia have solved this by trading the drug. Midazolam is a short acting sedative, that has proved very unreliable, and because of it being unreliable, drugs for lethal injections and death penalties are becoming increasingly hard to get a hold of, and are causing all these mishaps to occur.
3. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel barred his ministers from visiting a contested old city holy site, and ordered the police to stop members of the Parliament from going there as well. He did this because he did not want to alter the status quo at the site. Arab members of the Parliament said that they did not agree with the decision and would defy it by ascending to worship at al-Aqsa on Sunday. Muhanad Halabi is a law student at Al Quds University who was shot and killed by Israeli security forces after stabbing two Orthodox men and wounding one of their Wives and toddler son.
4. Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarussian Journalist and prose writer won the Nobel Prize "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." She is most famous for her deeply researched works on female Russian Soldiers in WW2 and the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It is a rarity for her to have won the prize, because her works are mainly non-fiction. Sventlanas' works often blend literature and journalism. She looked to the future with determination and contentment.
5. Prof. Daniel S. Hamermesh was scared to teach at UT, because of the increased risk of the concealed carry law, and is refusing to teach his class next fall. The American-Statesman got this information by interviewing Daniel. He is the first teacher to actually follow through with the threat of quitting, which makes it a kind of "first" there. He had originally retired last year, but agreed to teach his large lecture course until 2017, so the law is not the only reason that he is quitting.
FREE-RESPONSE
Column: PhoneSoap
The PhoneSoap thing cleans your phone in minutes because apparently our phones are 18 times dirtier than a public restroom toilets, which is disgusting. The contraption uses UV-C light to penetrate the cells and destroy the pathogens. I, personally, did not know that my phone is that nasty, and now I don't want to touch it at all. I think that it would probably be a good investment if you have problems with germs, but other than that, I don't think it's really something that I would buy.
The electronic edition of the paper obviously isn't the same as a normal paper made newspaper, because it's electronic, but other than that i think the layout of everything is the same because what would be the point of changing the layout of the newspaper just because it's electronic? What's nice is that you can look at the older editions of the newspaper, without really having to go somewhere and root around for it, and that goes for that days news as well. It's more accessible to people in general, really. For example, if you don't get the newspaper delivered to your door, and you want to read it, then you can just subscribe to the electronic edition. Plus, it might cut back the amount of paper that is used for the paper copies of the newspaper
1. Board members not all parks-and-rec employees. City Council board members get them too. You are the only person so far who has objected to the passes. I am surprised so many people thought they were OK.
ReplyDelete4. She also said she was not done writing.
5. The Daily Texan acquired the professor's letter to the university.
6, I think the layout is different. Fewer stories. Bigger photos. They don't have to conserve paper or ink because those editions are not consuming resources.
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