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True Feelings
During a lecture on the influence of media on teens, a typo in the PowerPoint presentation revealed the professor's true opinion. The title read "Three Reasons Teens Are Vulnerable Toads."
Dobler, Micheal. “True Feelings.” The Reader’s Digest.com. The Reader’s Digest, n.d. Web. 27 April 2010.
Dobler, Micheal. “True Feelings.” The Reader’s Digest.com. The Reader’s Digest, n.d. Web. 27 April 2010.
Science and Society
The Latest Developments in Science and Technology
What can one say? Coal mining has always been dangerous, dirty work, its technology pushed along only by the wish to extract more from the ground, its safety record still troubling after all these years.
We get half our electricity from the miners' labors, and despite all the issues of air pollution and climate change, that's not likely to change soon. Unlike oil, coal is plentiful in the United States; unlike natural gas, the mines are far from the paths of hurricanes.
Mostly, coal is out of sight, pulled from the earth in the most remote parts of rural America, sent by train to power plants that we never pass. We leave the work, in large part, to the rural poor of Appalachia. They're far from the major cities. We don't pay much attention to them unless we get wind of an accident. And then....
...and then? It so happens I wrote the words above four years ago, in a post to this blog on Jan. 4, 2006, after the Sago mine accident near Buckhannon, W. Va., about 150 miles by car from Monday's explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine near Whitesville. I take no credit for prescience.
The Associated Press has posted a list of fatal mine accidents in America; find it HERE. Six miners killed in a mine collapse in Utah in 2007...twelve killed at Sago in 2006...five killed in an explosion in Harlan County, Ky., in 2006...thirteen killed in explosions in Brookwood, Ala., in 2001.... The AP does note that America's "single deadliest mining disaster was in 1907, when 362 were killed in an explosion near Monongah, W.Va."
Already, there are stories by ABC News and others about the safety record of the Upper Big Branch mine, "including 57 infractions just last month for violations that included repeatedly failing to develop and follow a ventilation plan."
Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis released a statement this morning: “The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration will investigate this tragedy, and take action. Miners should never have to sacrifice their lives for their livelihood."
But that will not change the realities: that coal is affordable and abundant in America, that it is mined far from where most of us live, and that we don't pay much attention unless there is an accident. There has just been another.
Potter, Ned. “Death in the Mines.” Abc.com. Abc News, 6 April 2010. Web. 1 May 2010.
What can one say? Coal mining has always been dangerous, dirty work, its technology pushed along only by the wish to extract more from the ground, its safety record still troubling after all these years.
We get half our electricity from the miners' labors, and despite all the issues of air pollution and climate change, that's not likely to change soon. Unlike oil, coal is plentiful in the United States; unlike natural gas, the mines are far from the paths of hurricanes.
Mostly, coal is out of sight, pulled from the earth in the most remote parts of rural America, sent by train to power plants that we never pass. We leave the work, in large part, to the rural poor of Appalachia. They're far from the major cities. We don't pay much attention to them unless we get wind of an accident. And then....
...and then? It so happens I wrote the words above four years ago, in a post to this blog on Jan. 4, 2006, after the Sago mine accident near Buckhannon, W. Va., about 150 miles by car from Monday's explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine near Whitesville. I take no credit for prescience.
The Associated Press has posted a list of fatal mine accidents in America; find it HERE. Six miners killed in a mine collapse in Utah in 2007...twelve killed at Sago in 2006...five killed in an explosion in Harlan County, Ky., in 2006...thirteen killed in explosions in Brookwood, Ala., in 2001.... The AP does note that America's "single deadliest mining disaster was in 1907, when 362 were killed in an explosion near Monongah, W.Va."
Already, there are stories by ABC News and others about the safety record of the Upper Big Branch mine, "including 57 infractions just last month for violations that included repeatedly failing to develop and follow a ventilation plan."
Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis released a statement this morning: “The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration will investigate this tragedy, and take action. Miners should never have to sacrifice their lives for their livelihood."
But that will not change the realities: that coal is affordable and abundant in America, that it is mined far from where most of us live, and that we don't pay much attention unless there is an accident. There has just been another.
Potter, Ned. “Death in the Mines.” Abc.com. Abc News, 6 April 2010. Web. 1 May 2010.
Appeals Court Rules Walmart Sex Discrimination Case Can Go to Trial
Walmart Fears Suit Could Cost The Chain Billions
A class action lawsuit representing more than 1 million women got the green light to proceed today against Walmart Stores Inc. WalMart claims the suit, which alleges the giant chain store discriminates against female employees, could cost it billions of dollars if it is upheld. The reputation of an iconic company is also on the line.
It is the largest class action suit in American history, and Walmart indicated today it may take the fight to the Supreme Court.
The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that the case against one of the country's largest private employers could go to trial, nine years after the suit was originally filed in 2001.
The suit, filed on behalf of six women who worked in 13 of Walmart's stores, alleges that the women employed by the company face systemic sexism -- that they're paid less than men in comparable positions, receive fewer promotions and wait longer for promotions -- according to the court documents released today.
Friedman, Emily. “Appeals Court Rules Wlamart Sex Discrimination Case Can Go to Trial.” Abc World News. Abc, 26 April 2010. Web. 27 April 2010.
A class action lawsuit representing more than 1 million women got the green light to proceed today against Walmart Stores Inc. WalMart claims the suit, which alleges the giant chain store discriminates against female employees, could cost it billions of dollars if it is upheld. The reputation of an iconic company is also on the line.
It is the largest class action suit in American history, and Walmart indicated today it may take the fight to the Supreme Court.
The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that the case against one of the country's largest private employers could go to trial, nine years after the suit was originally filed in 2001.
The suit, filed on behalf of six women who worked in 13 of Walmart's stores, alleges that the women employed by the company face systemic sexism -- that they're paid less than men in comparable positions, receive fewer promotions and wait longer for promotions -- according to the court documents released today.
Friedman, Emily. “Appeals Court Rules Wlamart Sex Discrimination Case Can Go to Trial.” Abc World News. Abc, 26 April 2010. Web. 27 April 2010.
Waiting for the Fall
Vey, P.C. Waiting for Fall. n.d. The Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest.com. Web. 1 May 2010.
Deactivated: College Students Giving up Facebook...By Choice
ABC News on Campus reporter Lauren McGaha blogs:
You hear it all the time. Social media is the fastest growing technology connecting you to the rest of the world. And if you’re a college student, you know how popular it is. How many people do you know who don’t have aFacebook page? Be honest. How often do you sit through your 90-minute lecture class without updating a status or checking out photos from last Thursday night?
Well, it turns out some college students are done with the constant barrage of Facebook e-mails, friend requests and Farmville updates. And no longer do they need learn who is dating and which couples are over via relationship-status newsfeeds. Yes. In a world where everyone has one . . . they have deactivated. One such student is Eric Feld, a graduate student in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He deactivated his Facebook page in January.
“Believe it or not, life is just fine without Facebook,” Feld said. “I have noticed that I have become more productive, and I feel like I am performing better with my classwork.”
Feld says Facebook was one of the biggest distractions from school. But that’s not the only reason he decided to stop using the site.
“In total, I had maybe 1,000 friends,” he said. “Like everyone else I know, my friend list also had a ton of random people that I'd met maybe one time, people who were friends of an old girlfriend, or that just happened to have the same name as me. No offense to any of them, they just weren't worth the distraction. I realized that the people I'm really close to already know more about me than I can even list on Facebook.”
Sadie Cooke, a junior business major at Clemson University, decided to give up her Facebook account last June after realizing it was the biggest distraction in her life.
“I was consumed with it,” Cooke said. “I checked it too many times every day, to the point where I would lose count.”
Cooke says she spent hours on Facebook before deactivating her account, checking it nearly every time she was near a computer. Now she works on cultivating more personal relationships.
“All I really knew about people was what they decided to present on Facebook,” Cooke said. “Rather than calling someone or spending some quality time with a person, I would just write on their wall. Now, I have a lot more time to be intentional about my relationships with other people.”
But giving up Facebook isn’t as easy as these students make it seem. In fact, Feld says he felt quite a backlash from his friends at first.
“When I told them that I was deactivating, they treated me like I was committing some sort of heinous crime,” Feld said. “I had at least three friends lobby strongly for me to stay on by offering to take my account password and change it just so that I wouldn't deactivate. Even my mom was upset, because she said that she was going to miss getting to see me every day!”
Cooke also had to face her friends about the decision.
“They were not very happy and didn't really understand why I did it,” she said. “I lost touch with certain friends, which showed the depth in those relationships.”
For Feld, it’s been nearly five months. But he says he’s happy with his decision.
“Honestly, I don't really miss it,” he said. “Looking back, there was nothing really exciting about Facebook to begin with – nothing more exciting than maintaining meaningful communication in real life at least. I really feel good knowing that a website isn't a major part of my life and my day-to-day routine.”
McGaha, Lauren. “Deactivated: College Students Giving up Facebook… By Choice.” Blogs. Abcnews.com. Abc News. Web. 27 April 2010.
You hear it all the time. Social media is the fastest growing technology connecting you to the rest of the world. And if you’re a college student, you know how popular it is. How many people do you know who don’t have aFacebook page? Be honest. How often do you sit through your 90-minute lecture class without updating a status or checking out photos from last Thursday night?
Well, it turns out some college students are done with the constant barrage of Facebook e-mails, friend requests and Farmville updates. And no longer do they need learn who is dating and which couples are over via relationship-status newsfeeds. Yes. In a world where everyone has one . . . they have deactivated. One such student is Eric Feld, a graduate student in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He deactivated his Facebook page in January.
“Believe it or not, life is just fine without Facebook,” Feld said. “I have noticed that I have become more productive, and I feel like I am performing better with my classwork.”
Feld says Facebook was one of the biggest distractions from school. But that’s not the only reason he decided to stop using the site.
“In total, I had maybe 1,000 friends,” he said. “Like everyone else I know, my friend list also had a ton of random people that I'd met maybe one time, people who were friends of an old girlfriend, or that just happened to have the same name as me. No offense to any of them, they just weren't worth the distraction. I realized that the people I'm really close to already know more about me than I can even list on Facebook.”
Sadie Cooke, a junior business major at Clemson University, decided to give up her Facebook account last June after realizing it was the biggest distraction in her life.
“I was consumed with it,” Cooke said. “I checked it too many times every day, to the point where I would lose count.”
Cooke says she spent hours on Facebook before deactivating her account, checking it nearly every time she was near a computer. Now she works on cultivating more personal relationships.
“All I really knew about people was what they decided to present on Facebook,” Cooke said. “Rather than calling someone or spending some quality time with a person, I would just write on their wall. Now, I have a lot more time to be intentional about my relationships with other people.”
But giving up Facebook isn’t as easy as these students make it seem. In fact, Feld says he felt quite a backlash from his friends at first.
“When I told them that I was deactivating, they treated me like I was committing some sort of heinous crime,” Feld said. “I had at least three friends lobby strongly for me to stay on by offering to take my account password and change it just so that I wouldn't deactivate. Even my mom was upset, because she said that she was going to miss getting to see me every day!”
Cooke also had to face her friends about the decision.
“They were not very happy and didn't really understand why I did it,” she said. “I lost touch with certain friends, which showed the depth in those relationships.”
For Feld, it’s been nearly five months. But he says he’s happy with his decision.
“Honestly, I don't really miss it,” he said. “Looking back, there was nothing really exciting about Facebook to begin with – nothing more exciting than maintaining meaningful communication in real life at least. I really feel good knowing that a website isn't a major part of my life and my day-to-day routine.”
McGaha, Lauren. “Deactivated: College Students Giving up Facebook… By Choice.” Blogs. Abcnews.com. Abc News. Web. 27 April 2010.
E-mail Between Friends
Just thought you shouldl know... I MISS YOU! I MISS YOU! I MIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSS YYYYOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUU! yeah. jeez, we haven't talked in like forever and it's like really sad..I'm just so busy all the time it's hard. But I've had a little more time on my hands because I am not currently in a show. I was in Grease in January, and that overlapped with my rehersals for 110 in the Shade, our school play, that I had preformances for like a week ago. It is so depressing not being in a show! I wish I could do another show between now and late may/early june when rehersals for my next show start...but i think it would kill my mom with all the driving.
Kemsley, Mikaela. “Re: I MISS YOU!!!!!!!!” Message to Patricia Watkins. 23 March 2009. E-mail.
Kemsley, Mikaela. “Re: I MISS YOU!!!!!!!!” Message to Patricia Watkins. 23 March 2009. E-mail.
Times Square Car Bomb Could Have Created ‘Big Fireball’
Mark Hosenball
A car bomb installed in an SUV and driven into a parking spot near New York’s Times Square around dinner time on Saturday was of relatively primitive design and construction. But if it had exploded, it could have created a "big fireball" and spewed out "a lot of shrapnel" which might have killed or maimed many people visiting the busy Manhattan entertainment district, a senior law enforcement tells Declassified. The person or people who constructed and planted the device are presently unknown and there was no advance warning, the official adds.
The official, who asked for anonymity when discussing an ongoing investigation, says that there are indications some trouble was taken to make it difficult for investigators to find the bombers. The vehicle in which the bomb was planted, a Nissan Pathfinder, carried Connecticut license plates. But quick checks on the plates showed that they did not match the bomb-carrying vehicle. When investigators went to examine the unique Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) which car manufacturers stamp on various parts of a vehicle, they found that it had been obliterated--a process which would take some effort, since the VIN is stamped or etched into metal parts. The SUV is now being examined thoroughly at a New York Police Department laboratory, which may be able to retrieve the VIN using scientific methods.
The law enforcement official said that police have retrieved closed circuit TV video showing the SUV being driven onto W. 45th Street from Broadway around 6:28 p.m. on Saturday. It was parked in a spot near Times Square on 45th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues--right off the heart of the Times Square crossroads between Seventh Avenue and Broadway. The identity of the driver--even the driver’s gender--cannot be determined from the available video, the official says.
On a Sunday morning talk show, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that there is currently no evidence that the bomb was "anything other than a one-off." But on another show, she said the event was being handled as a "potential terrorist attack ... We're taking this very seriously."
The first alarm call was raised by a horse-riding mounted NYPD officer around 6:34 pm. The report was that a car was filling with smoke.
Examination of the bomb showed its construction was "crude by some standards" though had it worked, it certainly could have done a lot of damage, the official says. The main charge was apparently composed of propane gas cylinders. These in turn were put next to 1-gallon containers of gasoline, which is highly explosive. Unspecified "timing devices" were rigged to send an electrical charge to a cluster of M-80 fireworks, which would have served as the initial detonator. The idea apparently was for the timing devices to trigger the fireworks, which would then ignite the gasoline, which would then detonate the propane tanks.
The bomb design appears to be at least loosely similar to two car bombs which failed to go off during an attempted London attack in June 2007. Somewhat eerily, those bombs were planted near Piccadilly Circus--the heart of a theater and entertainment district, the closest thing London has to Times Square. An Iraqi doctor was later convicted for that attack; he was arrested after he and an accomplice tried to drive a car bomb into Glasgow airport the day after the failed London attacks. The accomplice was killed in the airport-bombing attempt.
Hosenball, Mike. “Time Square Car Bomb Could Have Created ‘Big Fireball.” Blog.Newsweek.com. Newsweek. Web. 2 May 2010.
A car bomb installed in an SUV and driven into a parking spot near New York’s Times Square around dinner time on Saturday was of relatively primitive design and construction. But if it had exploded, it could have created a "big fireball" and spewed out "a lot of shrapnel" which might have killed or maimed many people visiting the busy Manhattan entertainment district, a senior law enforcement tells Declassified. The person or people who constructed and planted the device are presently unknown and there was no advance warning, the official adds.
The official, who asked for anonymity when discussing an ongoing investigation, says that there are indications some trouble was taken to make it difficult for investigators to find the bombers. The vehicle in which the bomb was planted, a Nissan Pathfinder, carried Connecticut license plates. But quick checks on the plates showed that they did not match the bomb-carrying vehicle. When investigators went to examine the unique Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) which car manufacturers stamp on various parts of a vehicle, they found that it had been obliterated--a process which would take some effort, since the VIN is stamped or etched into metal parts. The SUV is now being examined thoroughly at a New York Police Department laboratory, which may be able to retrieve the VIN using scientific methods.
The law enforcement official said that police have retrieved closed circuit TV video showing the SUV being driven onto W. 45th Street from Broadway around 6:28 p.m. on Saturday. It was parked in a spot near Times Square on 45th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues--right off the heart of the Times Square crossroads between Seventh Avenue and Broadway. The identity of the driver--even the driver’s gender--cannot be determined from the available video, the official says.
On a Sunday morning talk show, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that there is currently no evidence that the bomb was "anything other than a one-off." But on another show, she said the event was being handled as a "potential terrorist attack ... We're taking this very seriously."
The first alarm call was raised by a horse-riding mounted NYPD officer around 6:34 pm. The report was that a car was filling with smoke.
Examination of the bomb showed its construction was "crude by some standards" though had it worked, it certainly could have done a lot of damage, the official says. The main charge was apparently composed of propane gas cylinders. These in turn were put next to 1-gallon containers of gasoline, which is highly explosive. Unspecified "timing devices" were rigged to send an electrical charge to a cluster of M-80 fireworks, which would have served as the initial detonator. The idea apparently was for the timing devices to trigger the fireworks, which would then ignite the gasoline, which would then detonate the propane tanks.
The bomb design appears to be at least loosely similar to two car bombs which failed to go off during an attempted London attack in June 2007. Somewhat eerily, those bombs were planted near Piccadilly Circus--the heart of a theater and entertainment district, the closest thing London has to Times Square. An Iraqi doctor was later convicted for that attack; he was arrested after he and an accomplice tried to drive a car bomb into Glasgow airport the day after the failed London attacks. The accomplice was killed in the airport-bombing attempt.
Hosenball, Mike. “Time Square Car Bomb Could Have Created ‘Big Fireball.” Blog.Newsweek.com. Newsweek. Web. 2 May 2010.
SATs are the best birthday present. ever.
Rovelli, Kevin. Message to all friends. 30 April 2010. Facebook Status.
Rovelli, Kevin. Message to all friends. 30 April 2010. Facebook Status.
Michael Lohan Calling on a Judge to Stop Daughter Lindsay From 'Dying'
By Hollie McKay
- FOXNews.com
LOS ANGELES
It is certainly a tumultuous time for Lindsay Lohan, who finds herself back in the headlines after her father Michael called police to her Los Angeles home last week in what he claims was an attempt to stage an intervention and have his youngest daughter, 16-year-old Ali, removed from Lindsay’s residence. But despite Lindsay’s repeated Twitter outbursts against her “crazy” father, we’re told Michael is hiring a team of professionals to accompany him to the court house in the hopes of acquiring a court order that will force Lindsay into rehab and ensure Ali is removed from Lohan’s home. On Monday, Michael apparently signed up with Gloria Allred’s daughter, attorney Lisa Bloom and met with chemical addictions specialist Marty Brenner to launch his plan of attack.
“Michael just wants the best for his children, Lindsay is out of control. Ali has been living with her, supposedly getting home schooled, but we don’t know who is monitoring her,” Brenner told Tarts. “There is no reason she should be living there, she should be at home. Nobody is looking out for Lindsay either, Dina keeps saying she has no problems.”
We’re also told that Lindsay often calls and texts her “estranged” father in times of need, but in the public light plays out as if she has nothing to do with him – which confuses Michael greatly.
“He is first of all going to try and talk to Dina and see if they can all work together as a family unit and force Lindsay to get help but that probably won’t happen,” said Brenner. “Her friends have given up on her, if she doesn’t get help, Michael knows she is going to die. No questions about it. She is a loose canon.”
However Dina told Us Weekly on Monday that her daudaughters have temporarily left the home as they are “so scared” of their father and all three intend to file restraining orders against him.
Dina also defended her eldest daughter as being a “good role model” for her 16-year-old. But aside from hiring a group of pros, the first thing Michael Lohan has been told to do is to stop talking to the press.
“He’s trying to help but has gone about it all the wrong way. He’s been drawing attention to the issue the only way he knows how,” added Benner. “No more media.” And while Michael’s new goal is to keep his press-loving mouth closed, Linds has vowed that she is done with partying.
“Last night never again believe it or not she’s done with the club scene,” Lilo Tweeted on the weekend. "I’ve learned my lesson – sometimes it just takes a glimpse of reality.”
Let’s see who lasts the longest…
McKay, Hollie. “Micheal Lohan Calling on a Judge to Stop Daughter Lindsay from ‘Dying.’” Fox News. Fox News Network, 27 April 2010. Web. 27 April 2010.
- FOXNews.com
LOS ANGELES
It is certainly a tumultuous time for Lindsay Lohan, who finds herself back in the headlines after her father Michael called police to her Los Angeles home last week in what he claims was an attempt to stage an intervention and have his youngest daughter, 16-year-old Ali, removed from Lindsay’s residence. But despite Lindsay’s repeated Twitter outbursts against her “crazy” father, we’re told Michael is hiring a team of professionals to accompany him to the court house in the hopes of acquiring a court order that will force Lindsay into rehab and ensure Ali is removed from Lohan’s home. On Monday, Michael apparently signed up with Gloria Allred’s daughter, attorney Lisa Bloom and met with chemical addictions specialist Marty Brenner to launch his plan of attack.
“Michael just wants the best for his children, Lindsay is out of control. Ali has been living with her, supposedly getting home schooled, but we don’t know who is monitoring her,” Brenner told Tarts. “There is no reason she should be living there, she should be at home. Nobody is looking out for Lindsay either, Dina keeps saying she has no problems.”
We’re also told that Lindsay often calls and texts her “estranged” father in times of need, but in the public light plays out as if she has nothing to do with him – which confuses Michael greatly.
“He is first of all going to try and talk to Dina and see if they can all work together as a family unit and force Lindsay to get help but that probably won’t happen,” said Brenner. “Her friends have given up on her, if she doesn’t get help, Michael knows she is going to die. No questions about it. She is a loose canon.”
However Dina told Us Weekly on Monday that her daudaughters have temporarily left the home as they are “so scared” of their father and all three intend to file restraining orders against him.
Dina also defended her eldest daughter as being a “good role model” for her 16-year-old. But aside from hiring a group of pros, the first thing Michael Lohan has been told to do is to stop talking to the press.
“He’s trying to help but has gone about it all the wrong way. He’s been drawing attention to the issue the only way he knows how,” added Benner. “No more media.” And while Michael’s new goal is to keep his press-loving mouth closed, Linds has vowed that she is done with partying.
“Last night never again believe it or not she’s done with the club scene,” Lilo Tweeted on the weekend. "I’ve learned my lesson – sometimes it just takes a glimpse of reality.”
Let’s see who lasts the longest…
McKay, Hollie. “Micheal Lohan Calling on a Judge to Stop Daughter Lindsay from ‘Dying.’” Fox News. Fox News Network, 27 April 2010. Web. 27 April 2010.
Spill at 'Worst Possible Time' for Wildlife
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Homeless good Samaritan left to die on NYC street
By DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press Writer – Tue Apr 27, 12:42 am ET
NEW YORK – The homeless man lay face down, unmoving, on the sidewalk outside an apartment building, blood from knife wounds pooling underneath his body.One person passed by in the early morning. Then another, and another. Video footage from a surveillance camera shows at least seven people going by, some turning their heads to look, others stopping to gawk. One even lifted the homeless man's body, exposing what appeared to be blood on the sidewalk underneath him, before walking away.
It wasn't until after the 31-year-old Guatemalan immigrant had been lying there for nearly an hour that emergency workers arrived, and by then, it was too late. Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax — who police said was stabbed while intervening to help a woman being attacked — had died.
"I think it's horrific," said Marla Cohan, who teaches at P.S. 82, a school across the street from where Tale-Yax died. "I think people are just afraid to step in; they don't want to get involved; who knows what their reasons are?"
Tale-Yax was walking behind a man and a woman on 144th Street in the Jamaica section of Queens around 6 a.m. April 18 when the couple got into a fight that became physical, according to police, who pieced together what happened from surveillance footage and interviews with area residents. Tale-Yax was stabbed several times when he intervened to help the woman, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. She and the other man fled in different directions, and Tale-Yax pursued the man before collapsing. Authorities are searching for the man and woman. A 911 call of a woman screaming came in around 6 a.m., but when officers responded to the address that was given, no one was there, police said. Another call came in around 7 a.m., saying a man was lying on the street, but gave the wrong address. Finally, around 7:20 a.m., someone called 911 to report a man had possibly been stabbed at 144th Street and 88th Road.
Police and firefighters arrived a few minutes later to find Tale-Yax dead. Officials say they're not sure whether the man was still alive when passers-by opted not to help him.Residents who regularly pass by the same stretch of sidewalk, in a working-class neighborhood of low-rise apartment buildings and fast food restaurants near a busy boulevard, were unnerved by the way Tale-Yax died.
"Is anybody human anymore?" asked Raechelle Groce, visiting her grandmother at a nearby building on Monday. "What's wrong with humanity?"
In the urban environment, it's not unusual to see people on the street, sleeping or under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
But even assuming the person they've just passed is drunk, instead of injured, is no reason not to notify authorities, said Seth Herman, another teacher at the school. He remembered calling an ambulance when seeing a man who appeared to be homeless on the street, with a beer bottle near by.He called 911, he said, because "I felt it wasn't my job to figure out if the person was drunk or actually hurt."
Groce agreed.
"I just think that's horrible, whether you're homeless or not," she said. "He's a human being; he needs help."
Hejila, Deepti. “Homeless Good Samaritan Left to Die in NYC Street.” Yahoo News. The Associated Press, 27 April 2010. Web. 28 April 2010.
NEW YORK – The homeless man lay face down, unmoving, on the sidewalk outside an apartment building, blood from knife wounds pooling underneath his body.One person passed by in the early morning. Then another, and another. Video footage from a surveillance camera shows at least seven people going by, some turning their heads to look, others stopping to gawk. One even lifted the homeless man's body, exposing what appeared to be blood on the sidewalk underneath him, before walking away.
It wasn't until after the 31-year-old Guatemalan immigrant had been lying there for nearly an hour that emergency workers arrived, and by then, it was too late. Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax — who police said was stabbed while intervening to help a woman being attacked — had died.
"I think it's horrific," said Marla Cohan, who teaches at P.S. 82, a school across the street from where Tale-Yax died. "I think people are just afraid to step in; they don't want to get involved; who knows what their reasons are?"
Tale-Yax was walking behind a man and a woman on 144th Street in the Jamaica section of Queens around 6 a.m. April 18 when the couple got into a fight that became physical, according to police, who pieced together what happened from surveillance footage and interviews with area residents. Tale-Yax was stabbed several times when he intervened to help the woman, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. She and the other man fled in different directions, and Tale-Yax pursued the man before collapsing. Authorities are searching for the man and woman. A 911 call of a woman screaming came in around 6 a.m., but when officers responded to the address that was given, no one was there, police said. Another call came in around 7 a.m., saying a man was lying on the street, but gave the wrong address. Finally, around 7:20 a.m., someone called 911 to report a man had possibly been stabbed at 144th Street and 88th Road.
Police and firefighters arrived a few minutes later to find Tale-Yax dead. Officials say they're not sure whether the man was still alive when passers-by opted not to help him.Residents who regularly pass by the same stretch of sidewalk, in a working-class neighborhood of low-rise apartment buildings and fast food restaurants near a busy boulevard, were unnerved by the way Tale-Yax died.
"Is anybody human anymore?" asked Raechelle Groce, visiting her grandmother at a nearby building on Monday. "What's wrong with humanity?"
In the urban environment, it's not unusual to see people on the street, sleeping or under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
But even assuming the person they've just passed is drunk, instead of injured, is no reason not to notify authorities, said Seth Herman, another teacher at the school. He remembered calling an ambulance when seeing a man who appeared to be homeless on the street, with a beer bottle near by.He called 911, he said, because "I felt it wasn't my job to figure out if the person was drunk or actually hurt."
Groce agreed.
"I just think that's horrible, whether you're homeless or not," she said. "He's a human being; he needs help."
Hejila, Deepti. “Homeless Good Samaritan Left to Die in NYC Street.” Yahoo News. The Associated Press, 27 April 2010. Web. 28 April 2010.
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