Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Jewelry Shop was Robbed While Sitting in a Cafe..

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8839870
Suspects arrested in North Side jewelry heist
Employees were bound inside a jewelry store during a jewelry heist in the Edgewater neighborhood on the North Side.  "It was quick police work.."
"People must be buzzed into the jewelry store to enter, but nonetheless, two individuals reportedly gained entry to the store. One may have been wearing a fake mustache. They may have been armed with guns, but no shots were fired. They were able to escape with some valuables after tying up the two store employees who were inside.
Witnesses say they think the suspects left via the back door, while employees were able to escape out the front door. Employees were not injured. The suspects were arrested in the 1900-block of W. Balmoral, not far from the store.."

Bryn Mawrの駅前でお茶を飲んでいた束の間に、高いアンテナをたてた各TV局の中継車や、ポリスが大集結....”Jewelry Shop was Robbed!"…白昼堂々のJewelry Shop 強盗だとか、

  隣のDunkin Donutsの店員らが銃声に驚いて飛び出すと、椅子に縛られた宝石店員が入り口から飛び出し、Help Police!と叫んだ…全ては信じられない光景だった…という
 (come o--n!)
秋の午後、Dunkin Donutsのすぐ左隣の宝石店に盗人が襲来。

"Next thing I see, I hear the guy running out, screaming, tied to the chair, saying, 'Help, police, police!'" said witness Gregory Pierce, who said he was referring to one of the employees, who ran from the jewelry store.
"There was people with guns in their hand - police officers with gun in their hand - I believe they were peeking inside the glass, and I think they saw them left behind, so everybody left," said witness Aamir Ali.

 直ぐに2人の男が近くで逮捕されたが、月曜日の夜、3人目の容疑者、おそらく女?は逃走中だというのだ…夜のNewsでみたレポーターの表情もまだこわばっていた

.."and reportedly, there may be a third suspect, possibly a woman.”

ミッドターム・ブレイクの束の間の午後なのに! 

Monday, October 8, 2012

Sunday, October 7, 2012

'12 Bank of America Chicago Marathon! 




 "The 2012 Chicago Marathon celebrates its 35th anniversary on Columbus Day weekend with competitors starting and finishing in Chicago's Grant Park. The race, with 45,000 participants, includes world-class elite runners and a wheelchair field."

 今年のシカゴマラソンの中継カメラは、PilsenやChinatownなどの…コースが通過するエスニック地域をことさらクローズアップしていたのは何故?

  とにかく普段から練習する市民のいきごみはすごかったのだ…(週末、湖べりのランニングコースで多くの男性、女性が、本番さながらのペースで走っていた) 

…気温は48度とChilly… 多くの人々はランニングだけでは冷えるので、黒いアームウォーマー(?)や、Extra shirts(長袖トレーナーなど)を着てスタートしたが…それらがコースの途中で脱ぎ捨てらると、殆どすべてSalvation Armyの手で集められ。。チャリティにまわされる、うんぬん。

 (何でもチャリティにまわす、というところには感動!?  ウチの大学のライブラリーでもちかぢか"Food Drive"があり、どんな缶でもよいのでcanned foodを持参すれば、ひと缶$2.00で返却の遅れた本の「罰金」も支払えるというのだ…どういう発想??)

…Marathonでは、AM9時40分前後、初めから先頭のpacerたちと共に走っていた小さな男、EthiopiaのKabedeがゴール… それよりも早くゴールしたのはWheel Chairの男性…一見の価値あり

日本の選手2人?は当初、頑張ってとばして、中継でも存在感があったのに、途中から遅れてしまったようだ…

そのために、中継アナウンサーもサミー・ワンジルの話を、良く話していた…
…死から2年たっても彼の思い出はいまだに鮮烈のような?

announcer曰く、"It was a deadly combination of Kenyan Talent and Japanese technology ..

それはどういう意味なのだろう…?

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Lefty Autum..?


.. Lately, swarm of videos about Southern desegregation movement,
Civil Rights movements, radical '60s students movements..were shown
 in all my socl classes..

..Since my classes are about the race relations, urban study(city & suburbs,) and the 60's movements..



I saw the films about "Freedom Summer," "Freedom Ride"(radical students' desegregation movements in the '50s.. '60s Mississippi,)
..

"Berkley in the sixties.."  or.. and also,
about the dispossessed Mexican miners film etc, etc,...
- Now i belatedly saw what "Hard time Mississippi"was all about ..
which Stevie Wonder sung in his 'Living for the City'

 One of the teacher made a nice proposal.. to attend community meeting on the South Side Chicago..
on the 103st St!

It is in the black neighborhood.. Isn't it quite  dangerous ..  for group of..blond haired....
white student? I couldn't imagine.
.


Last year I didn't I see nobody in my previous class researched about South Side... or nobody even attended"Interrupters.' film's show and the Ceasefire Chicago's lecture on campus..

But the young students in the 60s movement class seem like excited about the old day's radical  movements.
because the old teacher...  Dr.Wright from '60s San Francisco is igniting them.. ..

Sunday, September 23, 2012

So..What was the teachers' strike's outcome? ... It somehow ended, but not really ended..  (an impression.)
 
 
Emanuel's somewhat cunning after-strike tv ad is seen everyday now..
 The article was explaining the cause of the strike...
 
Bullied by their city's Democratic mayor, teachers in Chicago are making a bold stand against misguided "reform"



Friday, September 14, 2012

Teachers are still goint to Strike..

...Here are the teachers..
The teachers are still heading to the downtown on Saturday -
 taking a train from BrynMawr...!







..They are apparently from Swift Elementary school .

(People look like generally pro to the teachers.. )

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/19540817/teachers-strike-opposed-by-401-poll-suggests


Teachers’ strike opposed by 40.1%, poll suggests



"......Emanuel's goal of judging Chicago Public School teachers -- for the first time ever – is based in part on the academic progress of the students in their classroom.
Union leaders claim on the one hand that many factors outside the classroom, including poverty and neighborhood violence, hurt student learning in ways no teacher can overcome. They also reject the standardized testing Mayor Emanuel wants to use as a way of measuring what kids have learned.

....... Among the mayor's substantial concessions: his team has agreed to give poor-performing teachers up to 15 months to improve and to give qualified, laid-off teachers up to two years to find another CPS job.

In the first week of the walkout, Chicago voters sympathized with the strikers. In a survey by We Ask America about the union's decision to strike, 55.5% approve, 40.1% disapprove, 4.4% have no opinion.
Who's most to blame for the strike? 34.4% percent say Mayor Emanuel; the union, 28.8%; the mayor's school board, 18.8%; no opinion 18%......."

- The poster in my apartment says:
e.g. the kids in nearby Swift Elementary School and other two schools should go to Pierce Elementary... ..Each school will be open from 8:30am to 12:30pm. Children need to register there. breakfast and lunch will be provided, no bus service is provided..

"Children are expected to join camp-type activities, such as sports, arts, and nature activities."

..Parents can also attend the children for half day, or there is a full-day option..

- The schools are to be opened on Monday in their plan.

**The teachers in general in my univ.. don't look like going to the strike..and our classes are normal..

We only got Dr. Wright in the radical class -"the Mvmts in 1960s"-.. who made a complaint .. "why we don't join the strike!? ...Mayor Emanuel might be fortunate, since the news from Libya may be used for camouflaging of the strike issue from the news shows.." etc..


**
On Mon morning teachers are still on the strike, but children are told to go back to the schools.. while there are be some picketing lines expected in some high schools...
 Some schools may have substitute teachers..   Parents' patience growing short.. etc.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Fall classes to choose..

As usual, when I arrive in Chicago, the hottest summer is about to be over...
- although the airport's tarmac seems like melted in this summer..

In this fall, I may take three Sociology classes!.. Is it too much?

I reunited Dr. Gitelson.. he looks younger than before..

- I heard Ms Rollerson received Ph.D degree and graduated. .. How great ..



Rich Coleus paradise

- Coleus are rampant...   in much more vivid color and much more varieties..