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Monday, February 22, 2016
Weekly Blog Response for Sunday, February 21
Sorry for the delay students, I was having bad internet connection at my home this past weekend. Please post your news response by midnight tonight to receive credit for the homework. Have fun!!!!!
BBC News What is life like in Australia’s poorest town?
Formerly a bustling grain farming hub, it's now a typical northern New South Wales town with a bowling club, service station, hotel and post office.But in 2015, Delungra was named Australia's lowest-earning postcode by the Australian Taxation Office, with a mean taxable income of just $21,691.
CNN News Kalamazoo Shooting Spree: What We Know and Don't Know An Uber driver(taxi) killed 6 people and wounded 2 people. His name is Jason Brian Dalton and he is 45 years old. He drove his car for seven hours to a target then an other target. And between that time he also picked some Uber passengers. Their familys are wondering about why Jason did this to six innocent people. He shot eight people in three different parts of the country at Saturday. He killed a mother in front of her daughter and he also killed a 14 year old girl. My mind doesn't get what a fourteen year girl or a mother can do this to a man. The police and investigators are searching how he picked his victims . From this situation I think that aren't we suppose to trust our taxi driver?
21th February 2016 BBC News Chelsea ease past youthful Man City
There was a big match yesterday between two English giants, Chelsea and Manchester City. By the way it was a FA Cup match which was so important and Chelsea beated M.City with a big diffrence. The result was 5-1. it was horrible for M.City. 5 different players, Diego Costa, E. Hazard , Cahill, Willian Traore scored for Chelsea and Faupala scored for M.City. I think Manuel Pellegrini who is the manager of M.City has to retire.
BBC News Syria conflict: IS claims deadly Homs and Damascus blasts
There was ANOTHER blast in Syria. That was a huge blast and more than 100 people are reported to have been killed in a series of bomb blasts in Syria. Cars were burning and more than 30 houses were destroyed. The Islamic State group says it carried out bomb attacks in the Syrian capital Damascus and the city of Homs, which left at least 140 people dead. These terrorists are too dangerous. They are not stopping and thats the evidence earlier in Homs, 57 people, mainly civilians, were killed in a double car bombing, a monitoring group reports. That was nkt the only attack they have done. There are lots of them and we should take precautions otherwise these number of death will encrease
İndia's army has taken control of a key canal that supplies water to Delhi. Protestors from the Jat community demanding job quotas in neighbouring Haryana state seized the munak canal. Keshav Chandra who is in top of the Delhi's water board told that 10 million people are without water now. Lots of water trucks are being despatched across Delhi and schools are closed after supplies from a canal sabotaged.
“Who was Oscar? A history of the Academy Awards statuette”
A German actor who made propaganda movies for the Nazis in the 1930s was the first recipient of the legendary Oscar Award. His name is Emil Jannings. There had been a mistake. Reputedly the real winner on that year was Rin Tin Tin. He is an 11 year old German Shepherd who rescued from wartime. Rin Tin Tin had become one of the most popular Hollywood stars at the same time when the silent movies were giving away. Rin Tin Tin starred in 27 moveis. Then recently formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, under the aegis of Louis B Mayer decided to give a dog the first of the soon to be legendary golden plate.That decision would set a curious and eccentric precedent. Even Rin Tin Tin received the most votes for the best actor in the first voting New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean confirms the Academy held a second round of voting with the human contenders only.Ever since the Oscars have been controversial Walt Disney won 26 awards while Alfred Hitchcock never recognised. While hosting one of the Academy Awards, Bob Hope is said to have quipped, “If we have any of these statues left over, we’ll just send them to Walt Disney.” Its model has changed precious little. The golden icon had been designed. The original Oscars made of gold plated solid bronze moulded by the Cw Shumway. In 1939 Shirley Temple presented Walt Disney with a second Honorary Award. This took the form of a wooden potion which stood the standart Oscar. Tiny wooden stairs down which paraded seven dwarf statuettes to Disney’s 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Between 1942 and 1945 when all metals were in supply Oscars were made of painted plaster. Oscars are essentially priceless.Hollywood icons they are revered rather like gilded statues. Emil Jannings is said to gave carried his Oscar before him like a holy relic as he approached advancing allied troops. “I have Oscar!” he cried, as if this might win him favour. Jannings survived, but had to be de-Nazified. Largely unchanging the Oscar statuette has gleamed silently to attention. A curious and deeply covetable design it remains Hollywood’s Holy Grail. My personal idea about oscars is that we should give Leonardo DiCaprio an Oscar because he is trying his best.
22.02.2016 BBC News (Great Britain) MWC: LG G5 phone has bolt-on modules As we know from the adds or commercials that there are a lot of phone brands out there. And those phone companyies are always in a race to make better phones and to sell them as much as possible. Yesterday, there was a conferance in Korea and some people may not know about it that lg and samsung devices made in Korea and they announced their new devices, well samsung is about to announce their new product but LG just announced theirs yesterday. I am looking forward to buy it if it wont cost so much. But lets talk about their product. I was interested to this phone because LG was listening their customers to how to make their new products better. And obiviously those customers and me are android fans and they said that we want a sd card slot. If there is a sd card slot, that means if buy your phone as 16 gb, you can still increase the capacity of your device. And they changed the design as well. They made it all metal and even though the phone is coverded with metal, you can still swap out your battery. Now that is a big deal because top companyies like iphone and samsung doesnt include that. And by doing a metal plate which can slide in and out, they made other accosories like for camera, for music and a lot of things. Therefore they made a huge step on design.
CNN News 21.02.2016 Another day, another record broken -- this time football superstar Lionel Messi became the first player to score 300 goals in Spain's La Liga. The five-time world player of the year scored his 300th and 301st league goals against Sporting Gijon. His 25th minute strike brought up the 300 and seemingly not content with that, he added his second six minutes later with a wonderfully struck effort with the outside of the boot. Luis Suarez, who had a second half penalty saved, added a third with a spectacular curling effort to claim his 40th goal of the season. Messi was just 17 when he scored his first goal for the club on May 1 2005 -- a delightful chip in the victory over Albacete at Camp Nou. His 301 league goals have come in just 334 La Liga appearances.
22 February 2016 BBC News These are the amazing things you can do in Japan on Cat Day
22 February celebrates in Japan every year since 1987.In 1987 Executive Cat Day Committee gathered cat lovers across Japan and since that day 22 February is the cat day in Japan. Actually the other countries celebrate this event too but they don't celebrate as eagerly as Japan.There also celebrity cats like Tama. After her headlines she became honorary stationmaster of a train station in Wakayama but she died in 2015. Then she inducted to hall of fame in February 2016. Also there is Maru. People become interested in her when they watch her series of YouTube videos.Her one video got 2.17 million views since 2008. By the way people are making very different things for this event. For example cat-themed doughnuts, cat-shaped biscuits, cat manga, cats staring soulfully out of windows, kittens mewing expectantly...etc. It is the hugest trend in social media as you can understand when you see the pictures on the news. Also don't worry if you are not a cat person because today is also ninja day.One of the better known places to celebrate this event is Koka City in Shiga.
CNN News 22 February 2016 Gravitational Waves Detected and Einstein Was Right Again After 100 years again we learned that Albert Einstein was right about something called gravitational waves. He predicted this theory 100 years ago and scientist were working on this theory. Finally scientist found this correct. In physics gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of spacetime which means as waves, travelling outward from the source. Director of LIGO David Reitze talked about what they did and he said that Albert Einstein was right like 100 years ago.
22 February 2016 BBC News "The pigeon will see you now" A 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.Rats are often associated with spreading disease rather than preventing it, but this long-tailed rodent is a highly sensitive detector that can save lives.
CNN News 22.02.2016 Kalamazoo Shooting Spree: What We Know and Don't Know
In Kalamazoo, Michigan, 45 years old uber driver Jason Brian Dalton got arrested. He shoot 8 people and 6 of them are dead right now because of that man. No one knows why. Around 5:42 p.m., he shot a woman in front of her children at an apartment complex parking lot and then 4 hours after that he killed a father and son at a car dealership. Minutes after that, he drove to a Cracker Barrel restaurant and opened fire in the parking lot, killing four women and wounding a 14-year-old girl. It’s a really sad think. What could these people have done to that man. Nobody know how did the man chose the victims. I think this should warn people immediately cause everyone uses taxi or uber, even in Istanbul. For example me and my family or my friends, we always use uber but after reading this news I’m really afraid of using one.
CNN News Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton win big; Jeb Bush drops out Donald Trump did more than win his second easy victory in consecutive presidential primaries in South Carolina on Saturday. He advanced his takeover of the Republican Party. He proved that he can dominate a race in the Deep South. He vanquished the dynasty that ruled the GOP establishment for decades as Jeb Bush dropped his White House bid. And in the process, Trump left no doubt that he is the GOP's national front-runner and has the most credible path to capture the party's nomination. So Trump wins South Carolina, Clinton takes Nevada. In the video all the people agree what he says. This is ridiculous. He is so racist but its like none of them cares about the others -I mean christians dont care about the other muslims or etc. Who is living on south carolina- I am so sad right now. Let's hope that donald trump wont win the nominations on other cities.
India caste unrest: 'Half of Delhi residents have no water'
More than 10 million people in Delhi are aggrieved for days. Delhi is India's capital and it is interesting that this kind of an event can happen in a country's capital. There is no water in this city for days because some protesters sabotaged a canal supplying the city. The army is working hard to solve this huge problem. Now, the authorities had made a deal with the insurgents but it will still take a few day to get water back to the city. Imagine living without water for days. People provide their water needs by taking water with bottles from tankers and by waiting for hours for their turn to get their most important need and their right.
BBC News 22 February 2016 Salt Water charger powers up phones
A new portable power bank that uses salt and water to recharge smartphones in now on a show at the Mobile World Congress tech show in Barcelona. The charger never needs plugging because it uses single-use cards that contain salt and water. Customers pay a monthly subscription fee to be sent more of these cards. Also the company's chief Björn Westerholm says that this charger is better for the environment than the normal battery-based power banks.
CNN News “China's weapons sales to other countries are soaring”
These days China is selling much more weapons to the countries. Especially to the Asia Pacific Region: Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. The Chinese military started buying fewer weapons from abroad since they have good quality weapons. "China is increasingly capable of producing its own advanced weapons and has become less dependent on arms imports," the report noted.
BBC News The White House has presented to Congress a plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, one of the president's long-standing goals. He wants to transfer the remaining 91 detainees to their home countries or to US military or civilian prisons. But Congress is deeply opposed to terror suspects being held on US soil and is expected to block the move. The prison costs $445m (£316m) to run annually and closing it was a 2009 promise from President Barack Obama. Human rights campaigners have repeatedly complained about the prison in Cuba, which has held 780 detainees since it opened in 2002. The president told reporters on Tuesday it undermined national security. "This is about closing a chapter in our history," said Mr Obama. "It reflects the lessons we've learned since 9/11 - lessons that must guide our nation going forward." But Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio was scathing in his criticism, saying Guantanamo prisoners do not belong on US soil. "These are literally enemy combatants," he said, adding he would ship terrorists straight to Guantanamo "to find out what they know".
BBC News Dozens dead in Hilla truck bombing At least 47 people have died after a fuel tanker was blown up at a checkpoint near Hilla, a city south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Thirty-nine of the dead were civilians, the rest police, one report said. Dozens were injured in the blast.The attack happened shortly after noon local time while dozens of cars were at the checkpoint. The so-called Islamic State said it had carried out the attack, in a post on the pro-IS Amaq news agency website. Suicide truck bombs, loaded with explosives, are increasingly being used by IS to hit softer targets and to deliberately cause civilian casualties - particularly in Shia-dominated areas.
BBC News
ReplyDeleteWhat is life like in Australia’s poorest town?
Formerly a bustling grain farming hub, it's now a typical northern New South Wales town with a bowling club, service station, hotel and post office.But in 2015, Delungra was named Australia's lowest-earning postcode by the Australian Taxation Office, with a mean taxable income of just $21,691.
CNN News
ReplyDeleteKalamazoo Shooting Spree: What We Know and Don't Know
An Uber driver(taxi) killed 6 people and wounded 2 people. His name is Jason Brian Dalton and he is 45 years old. He drove his car for seven hours to a target then an other target. And between that time he also picked some Uber passengers. Their familys are wondering about why Jason did this to six innocent people. He shot eight people in three different parts of the country at Saturday. He killed a mother in front of her daughter and he also killed a 14 year old girl. My mind doesn't get what a fourteen year girl or a mother can do this to a man. The police and investigators are searching how he picked his victims . From this situation I think that aren't we suppose to trust our taxi driver?
21th February 2016
ReplyDeleteBBC News
Chelsea ease past youthful Man City
There was a big match yesterday between two English giants, Chelsea and Manchester City. By the way it was a FA Cup match which was so important and Chelsea beated M.City with a big diffrence. The result was 5-1. it was horrible for M.City. 5 different players, Diego Costa, E. Hazard , Cahill, Willian Traore scored for Chelsea and Faupala scored for M.City. I think Manuel Pellegrini who is the manager of M.City has to retire.
BBC News
ReplyDeleteSyria conflict: IS claims deadly Homs and Damascus blasts
There was ANOTHER blast in Syria. That was a huge blast and more than 100 people are reported to have been killed in a series of bomb blasts in Syria. Cars were burning and more than 30 houses were destroyed. The Islamic State group says it carried out bomb attacks in the Syrian capital Damascus and the city of Homs, which left at least 140 people dead. These terrorists are too dangerous. They are not stopping and thats the evidence earlier in Homs, 57 people, mainly civilians, were killed in a double car bombing, a monitoring group reports. That was nkt the only attack they have done. There are lots of them and we should take precautions otherwise these number of death will encrease
BBC News
ReplyDeleteArmy takes control of Delhi water link
İndia's army has taken control of a key canal that supplies water to Delhi. Protestors from the Jat community demanding job quotas in neighbouring Haryana state seized the munak canal. Keshav Chandra who is in top of the Delhi's water board told that 10 million people are without water now. Lots of water trucks are being despatched across Delhi and schools are closed after supplies from a canal sabotaged.
21 February 2016
ReplyDeleteBBC News
“Who was Oscar? A history of the Academy Awards statuette”
A German actor who made propaganda movies for the Nazis in the 1930s was the first recipient of the legendary Oscar Award. His name is Emil Jannings. There had been a mistake. Reputedly the real winner on that year was Rin Tin Tin. He is an 11 year old German Shepherd who rescued from wartime. Rin Tin Tin had become one of the most popular Hollywood stars at the same time when the silent movies were giving away. Rin Tin Tin starred in 27 moveis. Then recently formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, under the aegis of Louis B Mayer decided to give a dog the first of the soon to be legendary golden plate.That decision would set a curious and eccentric precedent. Even Rin Tin Tin received the most votes for the best actor in the first voting New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean confirms the Academy held a second round of voting with the human contenders only.Ever since the Oscars have been controversial Walt Disney won 26 awards while Alfred Hitchcock never recognised. While hosting one of the Academy Awards, Bob Hope is said to have quipped, “If we have any of these statues left over, we’ll just send them to Walt Disney.”
Its model has changed precious little. The golden icon had been designed. The original Oscars made of gold plated solid bronze moulded by the Cw Shumway. In 1939 Shirley Temple presented Walt Disney with a second Honorary Award. This took the form of a wooden potion which stood the standart Oscar. Tiny wooden stairs down which paraded seven dwarf statuettes to Disney’s 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Between 1942 and 1945 when all metals were in supply Oscars were made of painted plaster.
Oscars are essentially priceless.Hollywood icons they are revered rather like gilded statues. Emil Jannings is said to gave carried his Oscar before him like a holy relic as he approached advancing allied troops. “I have Oscar!” he cried, as if this might win him favour. Jannings survived, but had to be de-Nazified.
Largely unchanging the Oscar statuette has gleamed silently to attention. A curious and deeply covetable design it remains Hollywood’s Holy Grail.
My personal idea about oscars is that we should give Leonardo DiCaprio an Oscar because he is trying his best.
22.02.2016
ReplyDeleteBBC News (Great Britain)
MWC: LG G5 phone has bolt-on modules
As we know from the adds or commercials that there are a lot of phone brands out there. And those phone companyies are always in a race to make better phones and to sell them as much as possible. Yesterday, there was a conferance in Korea and some people may not know about it that lg and samsung devices made in Korea and they announced their new devices, well samsung is about to announce their new product but LG just announced theirs yesterday. I am looking forward to buy it if it wont cost so much. But lets talk about their product. I was interested to this phone because LG was listening their customers to how to make their new products better. And obiviously those customers and me are android fans and they said that we want a sd card slot. If there is a sd card slot, that means if buy your phone as 16 gb, you can still increase the capacity of your device. And they changed the design as well. They made it all metal and even though the phone is coverded with metal, you can still swap out your battery. Now that is a big deal because top companyies like iphone and samsung doesnt include that. And by doing a metal plate which can slide in and out, they made other accosories like for camera, for music and a lot of things. Therefore they made a huge step on design.
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ReplyDelete21.02.2016
Another day, another record broken -- this time football superstar Lionel Messi became the first player to score 300 goals in Spain's La Liga. The five-time world player of the year scored his 300th and 301st league goals against Sporting Gijon. His 25th minute strike brought up the 300 and seemingly not content with that, he added his second six minutes later with a wonderfully struck effort with the outside of the boot. Luis Suarez, who had a second half penalty saved, added a third with a spectacular curling effort to claim his 40th goal of the season. Messi was just 17 when he scored his first goal for the club on May 1 2005 -- a delightful chip in the victory over Albacete at Camp Nou. His 301 league goals have come in just 334 La Liga appearances.
22 February 2016
ReplyDeleteBBC News
These are the amazing things you can do in Japan on Cat Day
22 February celebrates in Japan every year since 1987.In 1987 Executive Cat Day Committee gathered cat lovers across Japan and since that day 22 February is the cat day in Japan. Actually the other countries celebrate this event too but they don't celebrate as eagerly as Japan.There also celebrity cats like Tama. After her headlines she became honorary stationmaster of a train station in Wakayama but she died in 2015. Then she inducted to hall of fame in February 2016. Also there is Maru. People become interested in her when they watch her series of YouTube videos.Her one video got 2.17 million views since 2008.
By the way people are making very different things for this event. For example cat-themed doughnuts, cat-shaped biscuits, cat manga, cats staring soulfully out of windows, kittens mewing expectantly...etc. It is the hugest trend in social media as you can understand when you see the pictures on the news.
Also don't worry if you are not a cat person because today is also ninja day.One of the better known places to celebrate this event is Koka City in Shiga.
Happy cat and ninja days!
CNN News
ReplyDelete22 February 2016
Gravitational Waves Detected and Einstein Was Right Again
After 100 years again we learned that Albert Einstein was right about something called gravitational waves. He predicted this theory 100 years ago and scientist were working on this theory. Finally scientist found this correct. In physics gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of spacetime which means as waves, travelling outward from the source.
Director of LIGO David Reitze talked about what they did and he said that Albert Einstein was right like 100 years ago.
22 February 2016
ReplyDeleteBBC News
"The pigeon will see you now"
A 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.Rats are often associated with spreading disease rather than preventing it, but this long-tailed rodent is a highly sensitive detector that can save lives.
CNN News
ReplyDelete22.02.2016
Kalamazoo Shooting Spree: What We Know and Don't Know
In Kalamazoo, Michigan, 45 years old uber driver Jason Brian Dalton got arrested. He shoot 8 people and 6 of them are dead right now because of that man. No one knows why. Around 5:42 p.m., he shot a woman in front of her children at an apartment complex parking lot and then 4 hours after that he killed a father and son at a car dealership. Minutes after that, he drove to a Cracker Barrel restaurant and opened fire in the parking lot, killing four women and wounding a 14-year-old girl. It’s a really sad think. What could these people have done to that man. Nobody know how did the man chose the victims. I think this should warn people immediately cause everyone uses taxi or uber, even in Istanbul. For example me and my family or my friends, we always use uber but after reading this news I’m really afraid of using one.
CNN News
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump, Hillary Clinton win big; Jeb Bush drops out
Donald Trump did more than win his second easy victory in consecutive presidential primaries in South Carolina on Saturday. He advanced his takeover of the Republican Party. He proved that he can dominate a race in the Deep South. He vanquished the dynasty that ruled the GOP establishment for decades as Jeb Bush dropped his White House bid. And in the process, Trump left no doubt that he is the GOP's national front-runner and has the most credible path to capture the party's nomination. So Trump wins South Carolina, Clinton takes Nevada. In the video all the people agree what he says. This is ridiculous. He is so racist but its like none of them cares about the others -I mean christians dont care about the other muslims or etc. Who is living on south carolina- I am so sad right now. Let's hope that donald trump wont win the nominations on other cities.
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ReplyDelete22 February 2016
India caste unrest: 'Half of Delhi residents have no water'
More than 10 million people in Delhi are aggrieved for days. Delhi is India's capital and it is interesting that this kind of an event can happen in a country's capital. There is no water in this city for days because some protesters sabotaged a canal supplying the city. The army is working hard to solve this huge problem. Now, the authorities had made a deal with the insurgents but it will still take a few day to get water back to the city. Imagine living without water for days. People provide their water needs by taking water with bottles from tankers and by waiting for hours for their turn to get their most important need and their right.
BBC News
ReplyDelete22 February 2016
Salt Water charger powers up phones
A new portable power bank that uses salt and water to recharge smartphones in now on a show at the Mobile World Congress tech show in Barcelona. The charger never needs plugging because it uses single-use cards that contain salt and water. Customers pay a monthly subscription fee to be sent more of these cards. Also the company's chief Björn Westerholm says that this charger is better for the environment than the normal battery-based power banks.
CNN News
ReplyDelete“China's weapons sales to other countries are soaring”
These days China is selling much more weapons to the countries. Especially to the Asia Pacific Region: Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. The Chinese military started buying fewer weapons from abroad since they have good quality weapons. "China is increasingly capable of producing its own advanced weapons and has become less dependent on arms imports," the report noted.
BBC News
ReplyDeleteThe White House has presented to Congress a plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, one of the president's long-standing goals.
He wants to transfer the remaining 91 detainees to their home countries or to US military or civilian prisons.
But Congress is deeply opposed to terror suspects being held on US soil and is expected to block the move.
The prison costs $445m (£316m) to run annually and closing it was a 2009 promise from President Barack Obama.
Human rights campaigners have repeatedly complained about the prison in Cuba, which has held 780 detainees since it opened in 2002.
The president told reporters on Tuesday it undermined national security.
"This is about closing a chapter in our history," said Mr Obama. "It reflects the lessons we've learned since 9/11 - lessons that must guide our nation going forward."
But Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio was scathing in his criticism, saying Guantanamo prisoners do not belong on US soil.
"These are literally enemy combatants," he said, adding he would ship terrorists straight to Guantanamo "to find out what they know".
BBC News
ReplyDeleteDozens dead in Hilla truck bombing
At least 47 people have died after a fuel tanker was blown up at a checkpoint near Hilla, a city south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
Thirty-nine of the dead were civilians, the rest police, one report said. Dozens were injured in the blast.The attack happened shortly after noon local time while dozens of cars were at the checkpoint.
The so-called Islamic State said it had carried out the attack, in a post on the pro-IS Amaq news agency website.
Suicide truck bombs, loaded with explosives, are increasingly being used by IS to hit softer targets and to deliberately cause civilian casualties - particularly in Shia-dominated areas.