Friday, February 27, 2009
MSPCA
The failing economy is hitting everyone including the MSPCA, who will be closing three shelters this year. The shelters to be closed are the Brockton, Martha's Vineyard, and Springfield shelters. Springfield will be the first to close on March, 31. It will be followed by Martha's Vineyard, which will close on May, 1. The Brockton shelter will be the last to close on September, 30. The shelter will experience a phase down in late March. Along with the shelters, 46 jobs will be cut which will effect 38 people. The MSPCA is offering separation pay and outplacement services to all of these people. The animals left at the shelters will be sent to other animal shelters if they can't find homes for them by the closing date. Please, if you feel you have the time, money, and space for a pet, adopt one of these animals. If you can't adopt a pet, you can donate to the MSPCA. If you donate to a shelter that is closing you're money will be put to good use until the facility closes. After that, donation money will be used at the other shelters. For more information about the closures visit http://www.mspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=homepage.
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7. Sled hockey is one of many winter sports becoming more popular among athletes with physical challenges, such as spinal cord injuries, limb amputations, cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis. In recent years, snow sport equipment makers have adapted equipment, and ski resorts have expanded opportunities for those with disabilities. Health experts say the trend has multiple benefits, both mental and physical.
11.That's a good question these days, now that thousands of people are finding themselves with pink slips and the need to let colleagues and contacts know they are moving on and -- perhaps more important for job seekers -- how they can be reached.
12. This is Anderson Indian basketball night at the 9,000-seat Wigwam, a crucial piece of the fabric of a city torn apart by years of auto parts plant closings and the loss of more than 25,000 jobs.
13. But less than three miles south, in the once-quaint Mexican town of Palomas, a war is being waged. Over the last year, a drug feud that has killed more than 1,350 people in sprawling Ciudad Juarez has spread to tiny Palomas, 70 miles west, where more than 40 people have been gunned down, a dozen within a baseball toss of the border. More -- no one knows how many -- have been kidnapped, and the Palomas police chief fled across the border last year and has asked for political asylum.
14.The stuff is a simple mixture of table salt and tap water whose ions have been scrambled with an electric current. Researchers have dubbed it electrolyzed water -- hardly as catchy as Mr. Clean. But at the Sheraton Delfina in Santa Monica, some hotel workers are calling it el liquido milagroso -- the miracle liquid.
11.That's a good question these days, now that thousands of people are finding themselves with pink slips and the need to let colleagues and contacts know they are moving on and -- perhaps more important for job seekers -- how they can be reached.
12. This is Anderson Indian basketball night at the 9,000-seat Wigwam, a crucial piece of the fabric of a city torn apart by years of auto parts plant closings and the loss of more than 25,000 jobs.
13. But less than three miles south, in the once-quaint Mexican town of Palomas, a war is being waged. Over the last year, a drug feud that has killed more than 1,350 people in sprawling Ciudad Juarez has spread to tiny Palomas, 70 miles west, where more than 40 people have been gunned down, a dozen within a baseball toss of the border. More -- no one knows how many -- have been kidnapped, and the Palomas police chief fled across the border last year and has asked for political asylum.
14.The stuff is a simple mixture of table salt and tap water whose ions have been scrambled with an electric current. Researchers have dubbed it electrolyzed water -- hardly as catchy as Mr. Clean. But at the Sheraton Delfina in Santa Monica, some hotel workers are calling it el liquido milagroso -- the miracle liquid.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Five Soft Leads
From The Boston Globe- Wednesday, September 17, 2008 :
1. Penciling in a scorecard as he sat in Row X near the left field foul pole, Mike Van Hoven of Brandenton, Fla., watched the ballgame play out at Tropicana Field as he listened to a whole different contest: a deafening vocal battle between Red Sox and Rays fans.
2. There were announcements on the public address system. there was a election day lunch special, a "good-sized" haddock filet with french fries and cole slaw for $3.99. And wedged between the rotisserie chicken counter and the baked goods:the polling booths.
"This is great," Dianne Mann, a 23-year resident, said after casting her primary election ballot at, of all places, Price Chopper. "I'm going to get my cart and get things for dinner now."
From boston.com (boston globe online)
3.When a young mother from Brockton named Uloma Ikeagwuonwu roamed the hallways of the State House yesterday looking for someone, anyone, to discuss school programs, it took her 90 minutes before she finally found two legislators.
"Nothing seems to be happening," she said. "It's so quiet. The people I expect to see, I'm not seeing them."
4.The little boy answered the teacher's question in perfect Cantonese, which until recently would have earned him praise at the Kwong Kow Chinese School in Boston's Chinatown.
But the teacher shook her head.
"No," said Catherine Lui, peering at the boy over her eyeglasses as he stared up at her from the front row. "You have to use Mandarin."
5.It was a moment to rejoice. On Nov. 3, 2004, police supporters in Stoughton hoisted Manuel J. Cachopa to their shoulders and carried him around Club Luiz DeCamoes as they celebrated the voters’ recall of two town selectmen who had refused to renew Cachopa’s contract as police chief.
It was also the beginning of the end, some say.
1. Penciling in a scorecard as he sat in Row X near the left field foul pole, Mike Van Hoven of Brandenton, Fla., watched the ballgame play out at Tropicana Field as he listened to a whole different contest: a deafening vocal battle between Red Sox and Rays fans.
2. There were announcements on the public address system. there was a election day lunch special, a "good-sized" haddock filet with french fries and cole slaw for $3.99. And wedged between the rotisserie chicken counter and the baked goods:the polling booths.
"This is great," Dianne Mann, a 23-year resident, said after casting her primary election ballot at, of all places, Price Chopper. "I'm going to get my cart and get things for dinner now."
From boston.com (boston globe online)
3.When a young mother from Brockton named Uloma Ikeagwuonwu roamed the hallways of the State House yesterday looking for someone, anyone, to discuss school programs, it took her 90 minutes before she finally found two legislators.
"Nothing seems to be happening," she said. "It's so quiet. The people I expect to see, I'm not seeing them."
4.The little boy answered the teacher's question in perfect Cantonese, which until recently would have earned him praise at the Kwong Kow Chinese School in Boston's Chinatown.
But the teacher shook her head.
"No," said Catherine Lui, peering at the boy over her eyeglasses as he stared up at her from the front row. "You have to use Mandarin."
5.It was a moment to rejoice. On Nov. 3, 2004, police supporters in Stoughton hoisted Manuel J. Cachopa to their shoulders and carried him around Club Luiz DeCamoes as they celebrated the voters’ recall of two town selectmen who had refused to renew Cachopa’s contract as police chief.
It was also the beginning of the end, some say.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
Zoos Get a Makeover (Example of Print Plus)
Zoo New England, who runs the Franklin Park and Stone Zoos, is planning a $53 million makeover for its zoos, which will hopefully create more jobs in the failing economy.
In the past couple of years zoo attendance has skyrocketed. Most likely because it is an inexpensive way to have fun. Obviously, the additions to the zoo will attract more people. More jobs are needed to accommodate the guests and manage the zoo's new additions.
Many of those new additions will be amazing new exhibits. In the Franklin Park Zoo a huge walk in bird cage is going to be built. The zoos visitors will be able interact with hundreds of parakeets as the birds fly about. The stone zoo is going to build an ape exhibit, its first since the 90's.
Many zoo patrons are ecstatic about the upcoming exhibits.
"I come to the Franklin Park zoo all the time," said 3-year old Conner Waitergotodazoo, "I can't wait to play with the birdies!"
"I love gorillas," shared 65-year-old Agatha Gorrillam, "I can't wait t
o see the Stone Zoo's new ape exhibit,"
Personally, I can't wait for the new exhibits either.
In the past couple of years zoo attendance has skyrocketed. Most likely because it is an inexpensive way to have fun. Obviously, the additions to the zoo will attract more people. More jobs are needed to accommodate the guests and manage the zoo's new additions.
Many of those new additions will be amazing new exhibits. In the Franklin Park Zoo a huge walk in bird cage is going to be built. The zoos visitors will be able interact with hundreds of parakeets as the birds fly about. The stone zoo is going to build an ape exhibit, its first since the 90's.
Many zoo patrons are ecstatic about the upcoming exhibits.
"I come to the Franklin Park zoo all the time," said 3-year old Conner Waitergotodazoo, "I can't wait to play with the birdies!"
"I love gorillas," shared 65-year-old Agatha Gorrillam, "I can't wait t
o see the Stone Zoo's new ape exhibit,"Personally, I can't wait for the new exhibits either.
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Photos are from the zoos' websites.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Ethics in Journalism
I agree with the journalist's decision not to publish an article about the family receiving the death benefit. By not publishing that story he demonstrated the ethical code of minimizing harm. If he had published the article the family would have had many difficulties. They were already trying to overcome financial troubles and trying to come to terms with the officer's suicide. The kids might have been teased in school. People may have looked down on the family for taking the money. The journalist knew what he had to do and why he had to do it. Clearly, the journalist made the right decision.
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