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15. Time to REFLECT
Fa 14 anys
dilluns, 1 de desembre del 2008
Venice has been hit by the biggest flood in more than 20 years, with waters rising 1.56m (5ft) above normal.
Many of Venice's streets, including the famous St Mark's Square, were submerged, before the high waters began to retreat.
The lagoon city in the Adriatic suffers some level of flooding for about 200 days every year.
The authorities are planning to complete the building of an underwater dam to protect the city by 2011.
Mayor's warning
Driven by strong winds, the sea level rose to 1.56m above normal on Monday, submerging nearly all of the city, including St Mark's Square, officials said.
It was the highest "acqua alta", or high water, since it reached 1.58m in 1986.
Many of Venice's streets, including the famous St Mark's Square, were submerged, before the high waters began to retreat.
The lagoon city in the Adriatic suffers some level of flooding for about 200 days every year.
The authorities are planning to complete the building of an underwater dam to protect the city by 2011.
Mayor's warning
Driven by strong winds, the sea level rose to 1.56m above normal on Monday, submerging nearly all of the city, including St Mark's Square, officials said.
It was the highest "acqua alta", or high water, since it reached 1.58m in 1986.
German freezer baby mother guilty
A German court has sentenced a woman to more than four years in prison for killing two of her baby girls whose bodies she kept in a freezer.
Monika Halbe, aged 44, was convicted of manslaughter for killing the infants, born in 1988 and 2003.
She was not tried in connection with a third baby girl who died in 1986 because too much time had elapsed.
She denied killing the babies, and said she kept them in the freezer because she had wanted them to remain near her.
The three tiny corpses were found by Halbe's teenage son in May when he was looking for a pizza in the basement freezer in the family's home in Wenden, near Frankfurt.
Grim case
Halbe was sentenced to four years and three months in prison by the court in the western town of Siegen.
During the trial that shocked the whole nation, she had admitted to hiding the bodies in the freezer but had denied killing them.
Prosecutors had demanded eight-and-a-half years in prison for Halbe, arguing that she had suffocated one of the babies born in 1988 and drowned the other one.
Her defence team had asked that she be sentenced on probation, noting that Halbe, who already had three grown children, had been deeply ambivalent about having more babies and had suffered from alcoholism.
It was not the first such case in Germany.
Two years ago, the body of a dead toddler was found in the fridge of his drug-addicted parents in the northern city of Bremen.
Also in 2006, a woman in eastern Germany was sentenced to 15 years in prison for killing eight of her babies.
She had buried them in flower pots and a fish tank in the garden of her parents' home near the Polish border.
Monika Halbe, aged 44, was convicted of manslaughter for killing the infants, born in 1988 and 2003.
She was not tried in connection with a third baby girl who died in 1986 because too much time had elapsed.
She denied killing the babies, and said she kept them in the freezer because she had wanted them to remain near her.
The three tiny corpses were found by Halbe's teenage son in May when he was looking for a pizza in the basement freezer in the family's home in Wenden, near Frankfurt.
Grim case
Halbe was sentenced to four years and three months in prison by the court in the western town of Siegen.
During the trial that shocked the whole nation, she had admitted to hiding the bodies in the freezer but had denied killing them.
Prosecutors had demanded eight-and-a-half years in prison for Halbe, arguing that she had suffocated one of the babies born in 1988 and drowned the other one.
Her defence team had asked that she be sentenced on probation, noting that Halbe, who already had three grown children, had been deeply ambivalent about having more babies and had suffered from alcoholism.
It was not the first such case in Germany.
Two years ago, the body of a dead toddler was found in the fridge of his drug-addicted parents in the northern city of Bremen.
Also in 2006, a woman in eastern Germany was sentenced to 15 years in prison for killing eight of her babies.
She had buried them in flower pots and a fish tank in the garden of her parents' home near the Polish border.
Romanian election neck-and-neck
Romania's opposition Liberal Democrats and Social Democrats are running neck-and-neck in general elections, partial results show.
With 93% of the vote counted, President Traian Basescu's centrist Liberal Democrats (PDL) had won about 33%.
The ex-communist Social Democrats (PSD) had also taken 33%, while the ruling National Liberals (PNL) polled 18%.
Tough coalition talks are expected if these figures are confirmed, as none of the parties would have a majority.
Earlier, exit polls predicted that the Social Democrats would win the elections - the first polls since Romania joined the EU at the beginning of last year.
'Strains of governing'
Squabbles between President Traian Basescu of the PDL and Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu of the PNL wrecked their coalition in 2007.
Since then Mr Popescu Tariceanu's minority government has been tacitly supported in parliament by the PSD and an ethnic Hungarian party, which is polling about 6% of the vote in Sunday's elections.
President Basescu said before the polls that he would prefer a centre-right government.
He is not obliged by law to nominate a prime minister from the winning party. He proposes a candidate, and parliament then votes on whether to validate his choice.
Some 18m voters cast votes for both chambers of the 452-strong parliament on Sunday.
Officials said turnout was just under 40%.
In the 19 years since the Romanian revolution, the left has traditionally shown more discipline while centre-right alliances have achieved dramatic election victories but have broken up under the strains of governing, BBC Eastern Europe correspondent Nick Thorpe says.
With 93% of the vote counted, President Traian Basescu's centrist Liberal Democrats (PDL) had won about 33%.
The ex-communist Social Democrats (PSD) had also taken 33%, while the ruling National Liberals (PNL) polled 18%.
Tough coalition talks are expected if these figures are confirmed, as none of the parties would have a majority.
Earlier, exit polls predicted that the Social Democrats would win the elections - the first polls since Romania joined the EU at the beginning of last year.
'Strains of governing'
Squabbles between President Traian Basescu of the PDL and Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu of the PNL wrecked their coalition in 2007.
Since then Mr Popescu Tariceanu's minority government has been tacitly supported in parliament by the PSD and an ethnic Hungarian party, which is polling about 6% of the vote in Sunday's elections.
President Basescu said before the polls that he would prefer a centre-right government.
He is not obliged by law to nominate a prime minister from the winning party. He proposes a candidate, and parliament then votes on whether to validate his choice.
Some 18m voters cast votes for both chambers of the 452-strong parliament on Sunday.
Officials said turnout was just under 40%.
In the 19 years since the Romanian revolution, the left has traditionally shown more discipline while centre-right alliances have achieved dramatic election victories but have broken up under the strains of governing, BBC Eastern Europe correspondent Nick Thorpe says.
Hello , my name is Eliza Lazarov and today I'm going to show you my oral presentation about Duncan James.I've chosed to talk about him because I'm a very big fan of him since I was ten(10) and I like him a lot .
We will start talking about him and i will start by saying that his real name is Duncan Matthew James Inglis and he was born ed on April 7, 1978, in Salisbury and he is an English singer , actor and television presenter.
His Early years and family
Inglis grew up in Dorset and he was raised by his mother and grandfather because his father , his father ... "mmmm" i mean his father abandoned him before he ,he was born.He was educated in three different schools , he started with Dumpton School (where his grandfather worked as a music teacher), he continued with the Milldown School in Blandford after that he goes to Corfe Hills School in Corfe Mullen.
Ok! According to an interview he gave to Gabby Logan on BBC Radio 5 Live on the morning of July 28, 2007, he is a great-grandson of Herbert Chapman, and this guy is the manager of the Arsenal in the 1930sWe will talk now about his career with the group, the boyBRAND, BOYBAND "blue" and early 200o Duncan with Antoni , Antoni Costa tried to convince lee Ryan and Simon Webb to complete this group, named blue . Blue was a very successful group and they get to be very famous in countries like U.K. Portugal, Italy , Egypt ,New Zealand and i think Australia to . From May 2001, when the group released its first single, "All Rise", until 2004, when the band released its final chart-qualifying single, "Curtain Falls", Blue had achieved 11 Top 10 singles in the UK, three of which went to #1. they achieved to the top, they were very good .
His solo career
He, I mean for me , my personal idea is that his solo career is a little bit a disaster because all his songs were like bad, i mean they didn't get to have any commercial success so i mean he started to collaborate with Keedie with "I believe my heart" on October 2004 , after that he continued with the , i mean he by himself with the song "sooner or later " in may 2006 and the last one , and his last try , another single named "can't stop a river " and that one was from august 21 , 2005 this last one is very similar to the other one so that's why he didn't get much popularity , he ended dropping this business because he wasn't very successful ...
His personal life
We know about him that he has a daughter named Tiannie-Finn (was born one day before me on 26 February 2005), with his ex-girlfriend, Claire Grainger. It was revealed his love for this woman on Dancing on Ice .
And that is all , now if you have any questions could you please ask me
divendres, 14 de novembre del 2008
...::::: Fragile ::::.....
In Wight Island, Amy Nicholls arrives in the old Mercy Falls Children Hospital to work as night nurse as replacement of the former nurse Susan. The hospital is in a deactivation process, with the patients being transferred to Saint James Hospital; however, due to a train crash, the closing process has been postponed. Amy is introduced to eight children with lung cases by the nurse Helen Perez, and she feels a sort of attraction for the terminal girl Maggie. Maggie likes to play with some letter blocks to talk with the "mechanical girl" called Charlotte that would live upstairs, in an abandoned floor. Amy asks about Charlotte to her coworkers and they explain that she is an urban legend and the Maggie is making up her existence. But sooner they find that the children can not be transferred to Saint James since there is something evil that wants to keep them near.
First Email
My Sweet suMMer [2008]
At the start of my fabulous and unforgettable summer I worked in a restaurant in the camping Amfora that is situate in Sant Pere Pescador,the village next to mine (l'Armentera).I had a lot of good experience and I met plenty of interesting and different people,fact that made me change my opinion about other countries around Europe.
After work we usually went to the disco pub of the camping(if you could imagine a place full of Dutch and German teenagers then you would have a very good idea about what it was like)
With the money that i earned i bought a good quality digital camera,I did some body piercing and at the same time i saved some money for the Christmas presents that i will buy for my family and friends.
After all these good things that have happened to me lately, I feel pleased with myself i now that i have achieved so much and I seriously believe that this was the best Summer of my life ,everything went exactly the way that i wanted to be.
Right now I find myself in my living room ,listening the sweet and mysterious song of my parrot Luna and I understand that the fun is over and now I'm prepared to settle down and concentrate on my studies
At the start of my fabulous and unforgettable summer I worked in a restaurant in the camping Amfora that is situate in Sant Pere Pescador,the village next to mine (l'Armentera).I had a lot of good experience and I met plenty of interesting and different people,fact that made me change my opinion about other countries around Europe.
After work we usually went to the disco pub of the camping(if you could imagine a place full of Dutch and German teenagers then you would have a very good idea about what it was like)
With the money that i earned i bought a good quality digital camera,I did some body piercing and at the same time i saved some money for the Christmas presents that i will buy for my family and friends.
After all these good things that have happened to me lately, I feel pleased with myself i now that i have achieved so much and I seriously believe that this was the best Summer of my life ,everything went exactly the way that i wanted to be.
Right now I find myself in my living room ,listening the sweet and mysterious song of my parrot Luna and I understand that the fun is over and now I'm prepared to settle down and concentrate on my studies
My Opinion About Thirteen
I think it's great that Nikki Reed (the Screenwriter) could take her past experiences and turn them into something positive - producing a film that touched viewers of all ages. Even though I am not thirteen, I could relate to the characters at thirteen as well as presently. Some viewers may consider topics in the movie too advanced for thirteen year olds but for some thirteen year olds this is untrue. Each topic portrayed in the movie exists in the lives of some young adults and affects them as shown in the movie. I thought that the film was not only eye opening to young adults but eye opening to their parents as well. As sad and devastating as the paths taken by these young women in the film were, the paths do exist.
dijous, 13 de novembre del 2008
HorroR StoRy
Here's one I heard on the radio from a woman who told her story about seeing a ghost, which is scary: A few years ago, the woman and her family had just moved to a new house somewhere in Transilvannia, Brasov, Rumania. One night, her baby son was crying so she got out of bed and went to see him. Suddenly, the baby stopped crying. The woman knew that he must have fallen asleep so she went back to bed. A few hours later, the baby cried again, so she got up and went over to check again. As she opened the door to her son's room, she saw a boy, about 6 or 7 years old, calming the baby down. When he saw the woman, he disappeared. The woman was shocked and later told her neighbours what happened. The neighbours already knew about the ghost and told her that there was a boy who died from an illness, about 80 years ago, and was buried under the exact place where her baby son's room is
dimecres, 1 d’octubre del 2008
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