Please, take this seriously as these weekly assignments will add up eventually.
Now let's go get 'em!!
Monday, February 8, 2016
Make Up Work - IMPORTANT!!!!
Unfortunately many of us are not keeping up with our weekly assignments, and are not completing them at all. However, it is still early in the 2nd Semester, and I do not want you to dig yourself a hole and get all depressed and bummed out. Therefore, I am offering the class an opportunity to make up 2 of the assignments. That is right, you can make up 2 assignments. You can thank me later :)
Please, take this seriously as these weekly assignments will add up eventually.
Now let's go get 'em!!
Please, take this seriously as these weekly assignments will add up eventually.
Now let's go get 'em!!
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ReplyDeleteTheater hanging: Actor Raphael Schumacher declared brain dead
Italian actor Raphael Schumacher has been declared clinically dead after he was choked in a stage hanging scene that went wrong.Police have launched an investigation into the incident and say they are trying to establish whether proper safety procedures were in place.Schumacher was performing in an experimental theater production in the courtyard of Pisa's Teatro Lux when a member of the audience noticed that the rope around his neck was too tight. In my opinion if a member of the audience sees that the rope is to tight. He/she needed to tell and warn everyone. If he/she would have done that, this person might be alive. Also his family authorized the donation of his organs, and the doctors have started the procedure, a spokesperson at Cisanello Hospital in Pisa
BBC News
ReplyDeleteJanuary 8, 2016
Taiwan earthquake: Woman rescued from under husband's body
There was a powerful earthquake in Tainan City in Taiwan.At least 38 people died in the magnitude 6.4 quake, most of whom were inside the Weiguan Jinlong building. A lot of building and car destroyed during the earthquake. There was a interesting event after the earthquake.Two people have been pulled alive from the ruins of an apartment building two days after it collapsed And it turns out the woman who officials said was found lying underneath the body of her husband. Their two-year-old son was found dead nearby.
Shortly later, a man was also rescued alive, local media reported. They think more than 100 people are inside of buildings
CNN News
ReplyDeleteHow to stick with your exercise resolution: Drink beer
I was searching through the cnn news to find intresting news. While I was searching, I found an intresting subject. I hope you enjoy.
Your six-pack abs may actually benefit if you share a six pack with your friends. Beer, or any alcohol for that matter, when consumed in moderation, may be a brilliant motivator to keep people working out. Scientists still need to do more research as to exactly what the connection is, but several studies have found that people who drink moderately tend to excersize more than abstainers.
Swaziland To Relocate 18 Elephants To U.S Zoos
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Swaziland wants to relocate to different three U.S zoos. Right now, they are living in the Big Game Parks. They decided that the three zoos that they are going to send elephants: The Dallas Zoo, The Sedgwick County Zoo and Henrly Dooly Zoo. For the exchange of the elephants, the zoo will donate funds toward the rhino conservation efforts at the Big Game Parks. Statment said that they are working really quickly and hard to bring the elephants to where they belong.
CNN News
ReplyDelete“Can fortune teller reveal next U.S. president?”
CNN news asked a fascinating question to Hong Kong's fortune teller Priscilla Lam to tell the fates of the candidates in becoming the new U.S. President. So the fortune teller read their faces, looked at the candidates' birthdays and their current life cycles using the Chinese Zodiac. She said that it will be a good year for Donald Trump. She added that the other candidate, Hillary Clinton, will have a hard time and said that water might just leave Marco Rubio all wet meaning that he will have a hard time too. The fortune teller says that she is 80% sure about her predictions. Now she will just wait for the 2016 election.
CNN News
ReplyDelete07.02.2016
Nicole Lovell's killing raises question of how to keep kids safe on social media ?
Nicole Lovell was a middle school student. She was planning to expose his relationship with a man named David Eisenhauer, a college track and a field athlete. He had a inappropriate relationship with Nicole Lovell but sadly he stabbed her to death. They met with each other at a dating sides and flirt pages on facebook or other social media.
"That Dragon,Cancer"
ReplyDelete8 February 2016
New York Times
“That Dragon, Cancer” is an animation video game.Its about the Greens’ emotional state during Joel’s illness. There is one dragon, but much of the game consists of re-enactments of mundanities like phone messages and hospital visits. Water fills a room as a doctor says there are no more treatments for Joel’s cancer.
Death is not so frivolous in “That Dragon, Cancer,” a video game about Joel Green, a terminally ill 5-year-old, and his parents, Ryan and Amy. It is a game about a single life one that ends and then is gone forever.
BBC News
ReplyDelete“Sculptures made from snow and ice wow visitors in Japan”
Japanese people made a huge incredible place for Ice and Snow sculptures receiving tons of attentions from the tourists. This year there were 200 hundred sculptures. It also had cultural Asian houses carved out of snow and ice. They even made a high speed train that was ten meter and it drew all the attention to itself. Organizers hope over two million people will visit this place.
BBC News
ReplyDeleteSyria Refugee Camps Set Up As Turkey Limits Entires
There are new Syrian Refugees that coming to our country. Turkish aid workers had started to work on tents and camps that refugees can stay and live for a time. They are still entering from the Turkey - Syrian border. Our country is already serving and helping 2.5 million Syrian refugees. Turkey is trying to help both ways ; it wants to help people that are escaping from the war and also we are having hard time while we are helping them. So, that's why Turkey wants to share this responsability with other Europe countrys. Deputy Prime Minister said that " Turkey has reached its capacity to absorb refugees" . I also think like this because if we keep getting more refugees to our country then our government will be in a hard situation and we also have to deal with our own country problems.
BBC News
ReplyDeleteBosnian woman protest at ban on headscarf
About 2000 women in Bosnia protested against a ban on wearing Islamic headscarves in courts and other legal institutions. Women protested it around one hour in capital of Bosnia, Sarajevo. The ban includes all religions but explicitly mentions the Hijab. Hijab wearing was banned by communist authorities while Bosnis was still part of former Yugoslavia, until 1992. The protest came in response because of a decision by Bosnian Judicial Council. The decision was banning the religious signs in judicial institutions.
The New York Times
ReplyDelete8 February 2016
Review: It’s Coldplay, Starring Beyoncé, at Super Bowl Halftime Show
Coldplay,Beyonce.Bruno Mars sang for Super Bowl.Coldplay wore gray, slate blue, musky brown, dusty black.Beyonce came to the stage second.She was great.She returned to the halftime show three years after headlining it to provide a much-needed assist to Coldplay, Chris Martin’s band. On Saturday, she released a new song and video, “Formation,” which took up much of her part of Sunday’s performance.Bruno Mars ran through a juiced-up dance routine on “Uptown Funk,” replete with MC Hammer-esque moves and backup scratching by Mark Ronson. Together, Beyoncé and Mr. Mars brought screaming jolts of soul and funk and jubilation onto a stage that until that point had lacked all of those things.
BBC News
ReplyDeleteJanuary 8, 2016
Migrant crisis: '27 dead' off Turkey as boat sinks
As you know there are a lot of people who has a really bad living conditions and they wanted to go to Greece to create a new life. But there was a horrible accident. The boat which has a lot of people in it sinked. Most were travelling to Greece on their way to northern Europe. Recent fighting in Syria has sent thousands of people fleeing towards the Turkish border. At least 27 migrants have died off the Turkish coast trying to reach the Greek island of Lesbos. The victims, including 11 children, drowned when their boat capsized after setting off from Balıkesir province. The sea route from Turkey to Greece was the most popular way for migrants trying to enter Europe in 2015 so that’s why we see a lot of boat accidents at news.
BBC News
ReplyDeleteCristiano Ronaldo: Real Madrid forward not planning move
Cristiano Ronaldo who is the one of the best players in the world will stay at Real Madrid until his contract will finish at 2018. He has been linked to his former club Manchester United and Paris Saint Germain. "I want to stay here two more years. The two years I'm talking about take me to the end of mycontract,""And the future, we'll see."Ronaldo was speaking at an event to collect his Pichichi trophy, which he won for being last season's La Liga top scorer with 48."This is the best league in the world, although I also played in the Premier League," he said."It's fantastic, competitive, and with great players. It is a privilege to leave my mark on it."
BBC News
ReplyDeleteParis St-Germain: Thiago Silva plots unbeaten season
Les Parisiens are closing in on a fourth consecutive title after beating rivals Marseille 2-1 to go 24 points clear at the top.
Laurent Blanc's side, who have not lost in 34 Ligue 1 games, are 13 matches away from an unbeaten league campaign.
"I think if we continue like this, we can go through the entire season without loss," Silva said.
"That's not an objective, but if we can do it, it will be magnificent.
"I don't know if we deserved to beat Marseille, but we won again. We're very happy. We need to continue like this, with desire and humility, to finish off this great season."
BBC News
ReplyDelete2 February 2016
Eagles vs Drones: The birds who grab drones from the sky
Dutch polices were training eagles to grab illegal drones out of the sky. They made the birds think that the drones are small animals so they would hunt to eat. The Dutch National Police force says that they are trying to limit how often members of the public are using drones. They also warned that terorist groups also using drones. So the eagles are solution for the illegal drones.
BBC News
ReplyDelete10 February 2016
"Inside Out wins big at Annie animation awards"
Inside Out is one of the best animation movies. It's audience is not limited with children. Adults also like this film so much. It won 10 prizes including best animated feature and best director for Pete Docter. And now it won the Annie animation award too. It is a Disney/Pixar film and it is about a 11 years old girl and the things that goes through her mind. It is a fun film, you should go and see it.
BBC News
ReplyDelete10 February 2016
"Tim Peake asks for help with space plant experiment"
British astronaut Tim Peake has asked schoolchildren to help him with one of his scientific experiments. His next project is about space planting. He sent a paper to schools that has the details about the project on it. He wants to plant pupils and than compare the growth with the ones that are on Earth. In his mesage he told that he wants to send a million seeds back to Earth and that he needs children's help with that. Everyone is waiting for the result.
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Delete11 February
Mark Kermode reviews the film that leads the Oscar nominations, the Revenant which got 12 nods. He'll also give us his reflections on Room. Film based on the novel by Irish writer Emma Donoghue about a mother and son living in confinement which got 4 Oscar nominations and the new Rocky film, Creed starring Sylvester Stallone. Revenant, starring Leonardo Di Caprio as a frontiersman fighting for survival, leads the Oscars race with 12 nominations, including best director.
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10 February 2016
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to be eighth book.
An eighth Harry Potter book is to be released this summer, containing the script for a new stage play telling the wizard's story. A hardback edition of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts I & II will be released on 31 July, the day after the play has shown on stage. It sees Harry as a father and an overworked Ministry of Magic employee.
The play is from an original new story by JK Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will tell the "untold part" of the boy wizard's story, including the story of the lives of his murdered parents, Rowling has said.
9 February 2016
ReplyDeleteNew York Times
“Review: Zurich Ballet’s ‘Swan Lake’ Looks to a Classical Version From Long Ago”
Swan Lake is like the world’s most familiar ballet. Alexei Ratmansky’s new Zurich Ballet production shows how far all other “Swan Lakes” have come adrift. The show will be at the Zurich Opera House on Sunday. A few details seem wrongheaded and the whole ballet is admirably focused. This Swan Lake has become the one which we should judge others by looking at that. Many of Jérôme Kaplan’s designs are modeled on those of 1895, especially the swan-maidens were wearing small circular white caps on their hair. The decor is medieval. The color schemes are sensitive and many points accord 1895 dance drama.There is no Black Swan ballerina. Odile’s dress contains several colours like black and she attempts no swan imitations.When she renews her seduction of the prince.After Odette and Siegfried en their lives the ballet ends with an apotheosis. In dance terms the production’s greatest but strangest achievement is to chance our sense. Principally, the swan-maiden characters are not tragically haunted by a bird form.Their pleasure both to be human form and to be protected by the prince and his men. On Saturday, Rossen Milanov sensitive conducting of the Philharmonia brought fresh life to the score. The theater seats about 1,000, and its intimate acoustics keenly enhance the music. The Zurich company is pleasing, able, harmonious; the dancers cope with the challenges of period style with real grace. And what setting could be more felicitous for “Swan Lake” than the Zurich Opera House.This wonderful 1891 building stands beside Lake Zurich, which mountains surround and where swans swim.
BBC News
ReplyDeleteSyria conflict: Turkey presses on with assault on Kurds
A Turkish assault on positions claimed by Kurdish fighters in northern Syria has continued into a second day.
On Saturday, Turkey began shelling the militia, which it says is linked to the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
The YPG militia, which is based in Syria, has rejected a demand by Turkey to leave areas it has seized, saying Islamists would return if it left.
Turkey's assault is a new thread in an already-complex conflict that has drawn in competing regional powers.
BBC News
ReplyDeleteAl-Shabab 'carried out' Somalia plane attack
Somalia's Islamist militant group al-Shabab says it carried out a bomb attack on a plane that blew a huge hole in its fuselage earlier this month.In an emailed statement, al-Shabab said the attack was revenge for Western intelligence operations in Somalia.
The Daallo Airlines Airbus 321 with 74 passengers on board made an emergency landing in the capital Mogadishu after the explosion shortly after take-off.One person, said to be the bomber, was reportedly blown out of the plane.The explosion happened about 15 minutes into the flight, when the plane was only at around 11,000ft (3,350m) and the cabin was not yet pressurised.
BBC News
ReplyDeleteAl-Shabab 'carried out' Somalia plane attack
Somalia's Islamist militant group al-Shabab says it carried out a bomb attack on a plane that blew a huge hole in its fuselage earlier this month.In an emailed statement, al-Shabab said the attack was revenge for Western intelligence operations in Somalia.
The Daallo Airlines Airbus 321 with 74 passengers on board made an emergency landing in the capital Mogadishu after the explosion shortly after take-off.One person, said to be the bomber, was reportedly blown out of the plane.The explosion happened about 15 minutes into the flight, when the plane was only at around 11,000ft (3,350m) and the cabin was not yet pressurised.
BBC News
ReplyDeleteThe number of people killed and wounded in conflict in Afghanistan rose in 2015 to the highest level yet recorded, the UN mission in the country says.
There were 11,002 casualties in total, with a 37% increase in women affected and 14% for children.
The Afghan government accused the Taliban of targeting civilians, especially women, to spread fear.
The UN's human rights chief said such "brutal and unprincipled attacks" were forbidden under international law.
BBC News
ReplyDeleteA rat or pigeon might not be the obvious choice to tend to someone who is sick, but these creatures have some superior skills that could help the diagnosis and treatment of human diseases.
Pigeons are often seen as dirty and an urban nuisance, but they are just the latest in a long line of animals that have been found to have abilities to help humans.
Despite having a brain no bigger than the tip of your index finger, pigeons have an impressive visual memory.