April 24th, 2011
Today’s blog picture tells me what is urgently needed for the summer: WORK. I need to secure an internship/job soon so I don’t end up doing absolutely nothing over the summer. I have finished my AIP applications and will turn them in tomorrow!
Today, I stayed at home for a majority of the day – eating strawberries, while at the same time doing a variety of different tasks including: finalizing my AIP applications, editing the SRC website (various templates), editing UCSD Cares brochure for UCSD Cares week, looking for other internships outside of AIP, and doings readings/work for various classes. For dinner, I went with Amul, Alex, Matt, & Lauren to Tofu House where I took my picture of the day. Obviously I’m not going to want to work at Tofu House, but I think it provides yet a surprisingly adequate portrait of my current cirumstances. Afterwards we went to Lauren’s place to eat some Red Velvet (for her birthday), Mint Ice Cream, and talk. After that was all taken care of I proceeded to the library to finish one of the readings I don’t have the book for. When that was done, I went back home to relax and sleep.
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| On April 24th, 1980, The mission to rescue the 52 hostages from the US embassy in Iran ( Operation Eagle Claw ) was aborted due to equipment failure, The Iranian foreign minister warned that any attempt by the US would be considered an act of War. Eight US Servicemen lost their lives in the aborted attempt. The hostages were held for 444 days from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981, after a group of students took over the American embassy in support of Iran’s revolution. The crisis ended after The Algiers Accords are agreed on January 19,1981 brokered by the Algerian government between the USA and Iran to resolve the situation.
The Algiers Accords consisted of a number of stipulations which both parties agreed to Including: The US would not intervene in Iranian internal affairs |
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| Reporting from Washington— Most of those remaining at the Guantanamo Bay military prison are considered “high-risk” detainees who if released would pose grave threats to the U.S. and its allies, as did a third of those set free earlier, according to thousands of pages of classified documents being made public by WikiLeaks. Release of the more than 700 separate documents dealing with the prison, opened under the George W. Bush administration to house detainees in the war on terrorism, drew a sharp rebuke Sunday evening from the White House, which said the documents were obtained illegally. YAY for Transparency. |
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