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| The
mother of 15-year-old Carolina Ayala, cries
before the coffin that contains the remains
of his daughter, who died dragged by the
avalanche that destroyed part of the city of
Verapaz (El Salvador), on Sunday, the
8th. The number of deaths can exceed the
200. photo: Rodrigo Abd /
AP (auto.motors-blog.co.uk ) |
Marcos Alemán
aP
The tears were rolling about
the severely struck face of Elsy Portillo while
it was traveling on Monday behind coffins with
the bodies of his mother and of his only son in
this town of Verapaz,
buried by a massive
deslave, one of several that killed at
least 160 persons at national level.
The Breach body was struck repeatedly against
the walls of his house while it was trying to
prevent from dragging his 7-year-old son by the
powerful river of mud, rocks and water that
devastated the village during the Sunday dawn.
The 40-year-old woman survived, but he said that
it lost everything for through what he had
lived.
“ They took my cherub from me. They took my
cherub from me”, he affirmed sobbing and with
the right eyelid closed by the inflammation.
Days of strong rains untied on Sunday massive
floods and avalanches in the whole mountainous
Central American country.
The presence of the hurricane Gone in the
Occident of the Caribbean Sea at the end of last
week could have been a factor that took the
system of low pressure loaded with water in the
Pacific Ocean towards El Salvador in another
side of Central America, supported Dave Roberts,
a specialist in hurricanes in the National
Center of Hurricanes of the United States, in
Miami, Florida.
No place turned out to be more struck than
Verapaz, a poor agricultural town of
7.000 inhabitants in the slope of the volcano
Chichontepec, located approximately to 30
miles to the east of the capital, San Salvador.
The minister of Government, Humberto Centeno,
pointed out that the death of 160 persons was
confirmed, about 60 are eliminated and 13.680
stayed without housing, at national level.
Rocks, many of them of more than one ton, were
filling the paved streets. Vehicles and houses
were arising between mud mountains. Cows corpses
in the decomposition state were lying on roofs
after having being thrown to the air by the
force of the current, that picturesque coffee
population turned it normally into a disaster
area.
Soldiers and settlers kept on excavating between
the rocks and debris in search of 47 persons who
were still missing on Monday, the 9th.
The hopes to find survivors were diminishing
with the step of every hour.
Breach was a closely of 200 local residents who
happened the night in a church in the nearby
town of San Isidro. Eight of the corpses,
included those of his mother and son, also were
sent in coffins to the church.
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To communicate in emergency cases in
MD |
Cell phones free for needy families
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Mitzi Mace
Washington
Hispanic
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qualify, the persons must receive some type
of help or subsidy of the government. photo:
AP |
To lack a cell phone means in
these days to stay
incommunicado of the world. Who was going
to think any years ago that to take a cell phone
in the pocket would turn into a need.
Regrettably still there exist many families of
low income that cannot acquire a cell phone for
the costs that implies the service, especially
during these times of financial crisis. To
fulfill this need TracFone Wireless it will
offer cell phones free to families of scarce
resources under the program
LifeLine subsidized by the government.
More than 378,000 hearths qualify for this
program named SafeLink Wireless, which includes
the phone, 64 monthly minutes free for one year
and I access to emergency calls.
The target of this initiative is to prevent a
person for having no resources to carry a cell
phone from staying
incommunicado in an emergency case or an
employer from without c contact it to offer him
a work.
“ For more of the 378,000 of hearths that they
qualify for the
Lifeline services in Maryland,
SafeLink provides a modern need that
might help them to assure an employment,
communicate with the schools of his children,
and to contact hospitals, the fire department,
or to the police in case of some emergency and
without any cost. No other company does that,
”there said José Fuentes, the director of
governmental relations for
TracFone.
I relieve for patients []
Other one of the applications of the service
that are evaluated corresponds to the medical
part. Thanks to the free service of cellular
telephony the hospitals, medical centers or
particular doctors might offer the phone to his
patients with illnesses who need to be
monitoreados. This way they might call or
send text messages so that they do not forget to
take the medicine, to do an examination to him
or to be present punctually at a medical
appointment. “This would serve very well in
patients with diabetes, high pressure or
HIV/Sida because they need are
controlled. In the long run to finance the cost
of a cell phone for these ends is more economic
because one prevents the patient from worsening
and coming to an emergency room”, pointed out
the doctor Leonel Flores.
Who qualify
To qualify the person must take part in some of
the following programs of help of the government
as they are: program of universal electrical
service, coupons of food, assistance for energy
of Maryland, medical care, public welfare for
adults, Seguridad de Ingresos Suplementarios
(SSI),
temporary assistance in cash or program of
temporary assistance for disability. The
benefits of the program are granted for one year
and at the end of this period the persons must
present the whole papers again to prove that
they qualify. Otherwise the user can remain with
the phone and obtain services under the form of
full pre. For
more information to call 1-800-977-3768 or
visits www.safelinkwireless.com
Maryland is one of twenty states in the country,
as the District of
Columbia who are benefited by this
program. 10 are the states in Maryland that they
would qualify for this new service of mobile
telephony between that they are the city of
Baltimore, Baltimore, Prince George's,
Montgomery, Anne Arundel, Hartford, Frederick,
between others.pisanie prac magisterskich
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Accused by theft of cards of gift |
They open judgment for corruption to the
mayoress of Baltimore
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Sheila
Dixon, mayoress of Baltimore, enters
smilingly to the court of the city where the
judgment began for corruption, on Monday,
the 9th.
photo: Jed
Kirschbaum-Baltimore Sun /
AP |
Víctor
Caycho
Washington
Hispanic
For the first time, the
democratic mayoress of Baltimore (Maryland),
Sheila Dixon, faces a judgment for charges of
corruption, accused of "stealing" several cards
of gift destined to families needed from the
city. Of being pled guilty, she not only will
have to leave the charge, but it will be
ineligible to receive a pension for 83.000
dollars per year that correspond to him.
The process began on Monday, the 9th, in the
Court of Baltimore, although during the week,
incluidó on Thursday, the 12th, the judge
Dennis M. Sweeney
and the accusing lawyers and of the defense they
were in charge of choosing 12 regular members of
the big jury and four substitute ones, which
will give his verdict.
Dixon, in very
brief declarations, insisted on his innocence.
“The truth will make way for itself, it is
everything what I can say”, he affirmed.
In accordance with the denunciations, which were
known from January of this year, the mayoress
received several cards of gift (gift
cards), someone had to be used in
activities of a church and others to help poor
families. Nevertheless, always according to
these accusations, she used to acquire pledges
for his personal use, of his family and of his
friends.
One hopes that two recognized ones
urbanistas of the region, Glenn Charlow
and Patrick Turner, as well as his ex-fiancé
Ronald Lipscomb, should present before
themselves to give his testimonies, since they
have announced that delivered approximately 60
cards of gift to the mayoress, with charitable
ends.
The case has caused big controversy in
Baltimore, a port city which population is
divided between those that they support and
those who criticize the maximum authority of the
local government.
Those who endorse it say that “everything is a
lie” and that that will be proved during the
judgment. Also, they emphasize his extraordinary
work against the crime, having limited the
numbers of shootings and murders to his lowest
index in 20 years.
Those who criticize his attitude, indicate that
it is necessary to give an example of ethics and
of values in the bosom of the municipality of
Baltimore, to eradicate "once and for all" any
corruption sign.
Meanwhile, the mayoress Dixon, who has an annual
salary of $ 151.700, continues at the head of
the city. On Tuesday he was observing the
operations to repair tubes of broken water and
on the following day it headed the acts for the
Day of the Veterans in Baltimore.
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In penalty of Virginia they execute
Muhammad |
Lethal injection finishes with the sniper
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| John
Allen Muhammad, completely gaunt, appears in
the last photo before being executed. Photo:
Department of Prisons of Virginia /
AP |
Víctor
Caycho
Washington
Hispanic
By means of a powerful
chemicals cocktail, sadly famous “Sniper of
Washington”, John Allen Muhammad, paid with his
life for the wave of murders at random that he
directed and that terrified Maryland, Virginia
and DC for
three weeks of October, 2002.
A minute after 9 p.m. of Tuesday, the 10th, in
the correctional center
Greensville (in
Jarratt, Virginia), a dose of 2 grams of
anesthetic thiopental
of sodium made it unconscious. Then, the
executors injected to him 50 milligrams of
pancuronium
bromide, which paralyzed his body,
immediately to add to him
potassium
chloride, a truly lethal substance, which
stopped his heart.
Muhammad was
declared dead exactly at 9:11
p.m., as confirmed Larry Traylor,
spokesman of the Correctional Department of
Virginia, before a group of journalists who were
setting a guard opposite to the penalty.
This way final point put itself to a dark
history, in which John Allen Muhammad, then of
41 years, along with his accomplice, 17-year-old
Lee Boyd Malvo, was the protagonist of the
murder of ten persons – between them two of
Hispanic origin - using a powerful caliber rifle
22.
Men and women of any condition, including a
child when it was entering to his school, were
the white person of the criminal wave that it
put in vilo to
the local police and to the FBI.
The panic and the fear came untied in the city,
until finally
Muhammad and
Malvo were arrested when they were
sleeping inside the vehicle Chevrolet Caprice
that they had conditioned to shoot from the
porter without being seen.
The apprehension, which produced national
rejoicing, registered on October 24 in a rest
place for drivers, in Maryland.
John Allen Muhammad, considered to be the brain
of two snipers, was sentenced to death by the
murder of Dean Harold Meyers in a petrol station
of Manassas
(Virginia).
Protocol of the execution
In accordance with the protocol of the
execution, Muhammad
was taken on Tuesday, the 10th, at 8:30
p.m., up to “the cell of the death”,
where he took a shower and it they changed the
uniform.
At 8:50 p.m.,
it was taken to the “camerawoman of execution”,
where it was put to bed in a stretcher. The
guards held it with thongs.
Two minutes later the curtains were opened, so
that the witnesses – between them several
relatives of the victims - officials and
journalists, could see the execution procedure.
At 8:59 p.m.,
one of the guards, following the ritual of these
cases, asked the intern if he wanted to
pronounce his last words.
Larry Traylor, spokesman of the Correctional
Department of Virginia, indicated that
Muhammad pronounced not even only one
word before dying.
Ted supports Jacky
Many confusion woke up the announcement of the
appointment of Jackie Reyes as Latin linkage for
the Ward 1 of
DC. Some of them believed that it was
going to replace Ted Loza, who was redeeming
this charge, but same Faience he was in charge
of clarifying the situation, on having indicated
that he continues like Chief of Office (Chief
of Staff)
of Graham's office, one of whose functions that
of Latin linkage is for the District 1. He said
that while it faces a judgment for bribe, of
which he has declared himself an innocent
person, it continues in the charge “under
administrative diet” that is to say, without
function capacity but with salary use. At
present there is a chief of temporary office.
Faience revealed that “Jim Graham consulted me
on Jackie and I gave him my opinion. I believe
that she is a very qualified person, it has
experience and is ideal to operate and to fill
this gap as Latin linkage in the District 1. I
her support 100 per cent”, he affirmed.
Special education
If it has a son with problems of learning or
some physical and/or mental disability, the
government offers him a series of educational
alternatives that often he does not know.
To fulfill this absence of information the
Coalition of Transition of Virginia del Norte he
invites to inform of the free forum Future Quest
2009 where information about the opportunities
will be offered to attend to the
college or to aspire to a university
education for students with intellectual and
physical disabilities. The forum also offers
excellent information for the family parents and
for professional and main. The appointment is in
the center Johnson de la Universidad George
Mason on Saturday, the 21st of November of 8:30
a.m. to 2:40
p.m. Rosalía Fajardo will be the manager
of offering information in Spanish. For reports
to call (703 923-0010. Also he can send an
e-mail to fajardo@peatc.org.
Culprits for assembly
Richard Heene and his wife Mayumi, parents of
the six-year-old child who supported for hours
in alert the authorities of the state of
Colorado for supposedly being on board of a
balloon that was flying adrift, pled guilty to
the assembly in exchange for watched freedom.
The aerostat with form of flying saucer floated
to favor of the winds and the images transmitted
by the television captivated million persons,
believing as the authorities that the child they
were inside the compartment of the balloon.
Equality in marriage
The Catholic Church gives him an ultimatum to
the town council of Washington
DC, if they approve the Legislation that
allows the marriage between persons of the same
one, they will suspend the social work programs,
thousands of immigrants would remain helpless.
The catholic church gives services legally and
medical care in the District of
Columbia that the government cannot cover
and there exists a risk that these organizations
take measures to protect his religious
conscience. One hopes that the law project
should be aprovado
in the next month with almost all the votes in
his favor.
More Vulnerable elders
The residents of the third age can be the most
vulnerable to the fire dangers. Therefore the
District remembered the residents who must have
a plan in order to survive.
Fire chief Dennis Rubin highlighted that during
the holidays periods the biggest persons and his
families, must be conscious of the dangers
inside the hearth.
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