Thursday, December 17, 2015
News Post for Sunday December 20
OK students, remember to post your responses to ANY news item that interests you. This means ANYTHING. Any topic at all. The point of this assignment is to encourage you to read and write about anything in English from the perspective of English-speaking cultures. Most importantly, this assignment will help me to assess your ability to skim, scan, and select information as well as summarize. So, have fun and let's get going!!!
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Youths dive into strong seas in Galway during storm
There were two teenagers at the pier. They wanted to dive into strong seas in Galway but there were several problems. The weather was incredibly windy and there were huge, huge waves. The audio wasn’t even clear because of windy weather. But they didn’t care at all. They were doing front flips, backflips. That was ridiculously hard to swim back to the pier. There were waves all over the pier.So we can say that these teenagers are very brave
Justin Bieber’s New Music Gains New Fanbase : Adult Men
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20th December 2015
Justin Bieber, made a strong point of view after he published the Purpose album .A lot of girl including me, were thinking Justin wasn’t really good but after the Purpose album we started to listen him more. In New York, a store opened called ‘Purpose’ for Justin. As I can read from the news there is a lot of men fans of Justin also. For an example ,a man kept asking his girlfriend who is this guy because this album is always playing on the radio. He learned it was Justin Bieber and he says that he is a new fan of him…
BBC News
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Air France flight in bomb scare
An Air France flight Mauritius to Paris has been forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya after a suspect package was found on board. There were 459 passengers and 14 crew members on the plane. The suspect package was discoverd on the toilet. Afteer the plane landed, the package was examined by the experts. But passengers thought that plane was landing off because of a technical problem. They were all very calm and they are not much scared. Also passengers said that crew members are very good. They made everyone stay calm and really quiet.
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Air France flight makes emergency landing in Kenya over bomb scare
Air France, Boeing 777 made an emergency landing in Kenya after the suspect item was found in the toilet. The plane had taken off from Mauritius and it had been due to fly directly to Paris. By the way there were 459 passengers and 14 crew members. But nothing bad happened and luckily the crew members kept the passengers calm and quiet by saying them it was just a technical problem. After the emergency landing, authorities in Kenya questioned several passengers and they diagnosed that the suspect item was explosive.
BBC News
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Pep Guardiola to leave Bayern Munich at end of the season
Bayern Munich board decided that manager of Bayern Pep Guardiola, the spanish manager should go and they decided to replace him with Real Madrid’s manager Carlo Ancelotti. The replacement will be on summer. Guardiola, 44, has been linked with Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal. In 2008 Guardiola chosen the best manager for Barcelona, but he didn’t had very trophies with Bayern. Chealse fired their manager Jose mourinho because he got 10 points in 10 games so Guardiola might go to Chealse.
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ReplyDeleteA Death-Defying ride Across Razor-thin roofs
There is a extreme cyclist (Danny MacAskill) who rode bike through Gran Canaria on top of the roofs. He made a deadly performance and an amazing video.He is a absolute daredevil and a lunatic.Who risks his life for this?But certainly he is good at cycling and talented doubtlessly as you can understand from video so when watched it you can understand he is not risking at all.His tricks and the landscape of the island is completely gorgeous.When he made his tricks we can understand the spirit of the island beneath the shining sun.I thank Danny a lot for his jaw-dropping tricks and the view of island.
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Dozens killed in suspected Russian strikes
At least 43 people have been killed in a series of air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russian planes in the Syrian city of Idlib, according to activists and residents.It says it has targeted only "terrorists", above all militans from the Islamic State (IS) group, but activists say its strikes have mainly hit Western-backed rebel groups.
20th December 2015
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There was a big air strike from Russian planes to Syria.At least there are 43 people were killed by the air strikes from Russian planes in Syria,Idlib.
The reporters say that markets,homes,buildings were all damaged. Russia says that they only targeted terrorists,but activists say that strikes have mainly hit to the Western-backed rebel groups. The Local Co-ordination Commitees said that the strikes have injured more than 170 people
20 December 2015
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“Blind photographer's concert pictures are an Instagram hit”
Ahmad Zaghal is a blind photographer who became an Instagram Fenomen with his concert pictures. Ahmad also hosts a weekly radio programme with his friend, Sean. Sean directed him about the radio programme. It has been lots of fun, he said about the radio programme. He is a huge music fan that is why he started to take concert pictures. His Instagram account was banter of a friend and him. At one point he jockingly threw an idea about what if he starts to take pictures and uploads them online. He developed his skills in order to continue being active members of society. If he didn’t, his other option was sit around and not be useful in anyway. If people care about his pictures, it means a lot for him and he is going to continue to do that. He really thought it was just going to be between him and his friends.
BBC World News (Great Britain)
ReplyDelete‘A $5900 robotic chair for the office’
Everybody knows that sitting hours on the chair and in the office without standing up is annoying so for this problem a company called The Altwork Station designed a chair which everyone would like
This chair has several different positions including lying almost flat and normal sitting position but the special think about it, is what do you need in the office are atteched to the chair.
Keyboard, mouse and computers are atteched to the chair with the magnets and this think is so far amazing but there is a problem. Most of the peope don’t want to spend their money on a chair which is six grand but overall this is the best solution for who works in the office.
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens' heading for $220 million weekend"
ReplyDeleteNew Star Wars movie "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" took in a record breaking $120.5 million at its opening day on Friday.It had more audience than "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2,"Everybody thinks that it will have the record for 10 years more.It had the biggest opening night for this 4 years.The box office record for an opening weekend belongs to Universal's "Jurassic World" which premiered to $208.8 million just six months ago.
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Star Wars fan with huge toy collection 'may move'
There are many people who “loves” Star Wars. But I didin’t see that was coming… A fan which has 20,000 items of memorabilia of Star Wars in his house???
Jason Buxton and his family, which includes his wife, his sons and his dogs’, lives in a three-bedroom home in lxworth, Suffolk. They are huge fan of Star Wars which is really nice but a little bit awkward when you think of their situation. For example: their dogs’ name is Chewie, Jason has 120 action figures from 1977-1984, a full-size R2D2…They think of moving out to a bigger house just because they want to collect more and more action figures, costumes, and other merchandise, which they got “a lot”. So we can understand than Star Wars has lots of fans which includes children, teens, adults, young adults…
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Will Smith is hard-hitting in new movie 'Concussion'
Actor Will Smith as he discusses his new movie role in ''Concussion.'' When he was first considering in this movie he thought that he didn't want to be the guy who said to the world '' there might be a hidden danger that haven't seen.'' But after that he met with Doctor Mollie he understood the science of it. As he is a parent, he started to feel to tell the story because he didn't know that his son is playing it. Also he was shooting a film in China and he flew back to Los Angeles every week to see his son's football play, so it was very hard for him. He says that football is one of the most beautiful and powerful sport. In this film there is no easy answers for secrets. In film there is the strongest and powerful human beings on earth but at the same time there is a hidden long term and brain issue with the game so it might be dangerous. This film based on a true story so I think everyone needs to watch Will Smith's new film. Also Will Smith believes that America is only country on earth where will 'Will Smith' exist so he will defend what they stand for about politics.
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Wrong contestant crowned at Miss Universe 2015
So this is an old news but i found that intresting so i decided to write. I hope you enjoy. Beauty pageants are places where grace and poise are meant to rule, but a decidedly awkward moment stole the show Sunday. Miss Universe 2015 host Steve Harvey wrongfully declared Miss Colombia the winner when she was the first runner-up. Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, the contestant from the Philippines, had won. Because of that little misunderstanding they both (the girls) stayed on stage cause of a big crown. Steve Harvey (the host) said that he will get all the responsibility.Harvey later took to Twitter to apologize, but he made another misstep when he misspelled both Colombia and the Philippines in an initial tweet. That message was deleted. Steve Harvey apologized from everyone on his twitter account. Here what he said/wrote: "I'd like to apologize wholeheartedly to Miss Colombia & Miss Philippines for my huge mistake. I feel terrible." , "Secondly, I'd like to apologize to the viewers at that I disappointed as well. Again it was an honest mistake." and "I don't want to take away from this amazing night and pageant. As well as the wonderful contestants. They were all amazing."
BBC News
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“Cosplay brings video games characters to life”
Cosplaying hit Japan like a tsunami. It got very crazy that some of the people started acting like those characters. They even started wearing their expensive costumes. Japan started making cosplay events so people can be the character who they want and socialize with other people. Trying to get away from the expensive costumes some people made their own weapons and clothes by sewing and creating. I think it's a great option to meet with new people that shares the same interests so I support it. I heard that it happens in Turkey too. So I would recommend that if you're that interested in video games or animes you should join this event in Turkey.
BBC News
ReplyDeleteMore than 3,200 US prisoners have been released early because of a software glitch.
The bug miscalculated the sentence reductions prisoners in Washington State had received for good behavior.
It was introduced in 2002 as part of an update that followed a court ruling about applying good behavior.
State officials said that many early-release prisoners would have to return to jail.
"It is deeply disappointing to me, totally unacceptable and, frankly, maddening," said Washington's Governor Jay Inslee at a press conference.
The Washington Department of Corrections (DoC) added that it was made aware of the problem in 2012 when the family of one victim found out that the suspect was getting out too early.