Sunday, December 13, 2015
Weekly Media Post of week ending December 13
Sorry for the late post students!!! I was having technical difficulties at home this past weekend and I had to wait until this morning to post. My apologies. Please post them as soon as you get a second and hopefully we can have all responses posted by Tuesday!!!
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BBC News
Teacher in France stabbed by man 'shouting Islamic State
Monday December 14th
World, especially Europe has learned the ISIS at the Paris attack. Lots of people died and the government takes precaution. Unfortunately this was not enough. Since today in the capital of France a teacher has been attacked in a preschool class in Aubervilliers. Police sources said the teacher was stabbed in the side and throat at about 07:10 as he was preparing for class at the Jean-Perrin preschool, which caters for children between the ages of three and six. According to the report, attacker was wearing a balaclava and gloves and he was using a weapon. Europe has never guessed that they live in terror. That worries Europe because they faced against something they do not know.
BBC News
Being unhappy or stressed will not kill, says study
Thursday, December 10th
According to the article “being unhappy or stressed will not kill”, being stressed will not increase your risk of dying. As we learned from the article it’s a myth to think that stress will cause heart attacks. The research team in the UK and Australia showed that being stressed will not effect the mortality rate. However, experts argued that unhappy childhood may have some impact on adults. I believe that being unhappy or stress has an effect on our lives. Stress causes our hormones change. Our hormones effect our immune system and our immune system gets weaker, we can not beat illnesses easily. Cancer is one of these illnesses. So I believe that stress causes illnesses that are not easy to beat.
CNN News
White House: Donald Trump Muslim plan 'disqualifies' him from presidency
Monday December 14th
Greetings Folks,
Even though the news I want to share with you happened a few days ago, I believe that it is definitely worthy to mention it as it is one hundred percent unacceptable. It is a fact that I, as a person, am not the biggest fan of United States of America but this happening made and makes me have even less sympathy and more hatred. The president candidate Donald Trump, openly and directly stated that Muslims should be banned from going in to USA. Well I am not sorry at all as how can a human being even say this? Especially a human being who wants to be the leader of one of the biggest nation all around the world. It is unacceptable. Improper. Offensive. Obnoxious.
I am left with no words than to say that I feel so bad for him. So bad for a person that can actually have this kind of a set of mind. The fact that he was disqualified from the presidential race does not make any difference for me. Shame on him.
BBC News
French teacher invented Aubervilliers school attack
Monday December 14th
France has been recently alarmed by ISIS terror attacks. As we all know more than a hundred people were killed in Paris. Beside, we learned from the news that a magazine published in French, named Dar-al Islam called their readers to murder French teachers as they’re the ‘enemies of Allah’. Why? Because they’re teaching secularism. So simple!
In this political circumstances, a weird thing happened. A preschool teacher in France, claimed that ISIS attacked and wonded him, but according to the prosecutor, he wonded himself artificially. So, he was lying. Now the prosecutor is trying to learn the real reason of what has happened.
Wind And Sun Come To The Rescue In Power-Short South Africa
National Public Radio News
Saturday December 12th
The article I chose this week is about if the renewable energy is worth the cost or not. This question was the central to the debates in Paris over how to address climate change. Though the conundrum has no simple answer, in South Africa the verdict is in. When renewable energy first arrived in South Africa it was considered as a green luxury. But this year, wind and solar farms turned out to be economy-saving necessities.
To completely replace South Africa's dirty coal with clean energy, however, will require technological leaps of the sort proposed by Bill Gates last week in Paris. He announced a two-fold push for research and development that will open the doors to a zero-carbon future.
The Real News Network
Alibaba to pay $266m for HK's South China Morning Post
Monday December 14th
Alibaba, Chinese internet giant(a shopping website similar to amazon and e-bay), will pay HK$2.06bn ($266m; £175m) for Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post. The sale price in a statement filed to the Hong Kong stock exchange. The negotiation was announced on Friday.
Alibaba reported that they will not only own English-language newspaper, but also sister publications, websites, and magazines.
Alibaba told employees at SCMP that the paper would have editorial independence.
The newspaper group said it will gain about HK$1.4m from the sale, which makes this negotiation advantageous for both sides.
Argentina bus crash: Many killed after bus falls off bridge
BBC News
December 14th 2015
The bus was carrying at least 50 people, most of them members of Argentina's border police, when it came off the road and fell about 20m into a riverbed. Emergency workers are trying to free a number of trapped passengers. They said that so far, six passengers had been rescued from the wreck. A local police statement said there were indications that one of the bus's tyres had burst and caused the driver to lose control of the vehicle. There are not always good news. It’s life that has ups and downs. I hope all of the people get well soon.
BBC news
Frank Sinatra at 100: Was Ol' Blue Eyes Dangerous?
So in show buisness, the word "danger" is overused and it is said to someone, refering them as angry/bad tempered. But while Frank Sinatra certainly had a few anger management issues, and would prove to be a handful when faced with a reporter’s microphone (or worse, a camera), his music is anything but difficult. Largely bypassing analytical thought to aim for the emotions, it goes down as smoothly as his trademark two fingers of Jack Daniel's and a splash of water. So, was he a dangerous performer? His music contains exterem level of emotions. Personally, I even get the feels when he is on. Furthermore even the FBI has a file on him (1940).
"Frank was always the most important person in the room by common agreement; he commanded respect, and he got it – it was about community, etiquette and honour." When Finatra was in his time he was challenged, in the early ’60s when the newly elected President Kennedy decided not to take his family on a long-planned trip to go and stay with Frank and his friends. Sinatra may have installed a helipad for the President, but Bing Crosby’s house was a safer bet, especially as Bobby Kennedy was out to clip the wings of crime bosses at the time. Having endured the indignity of being out-padroned in his own home.
Finally, Torn by feelings of love, guilt and despair, Sinatra attempted suicide, more than once. This is the existential depth you can hear in his most melancholy songs after that point – on albums like Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely and No One Cares, the latter of which Sinatra called a collection of “suicide songs” – and the reason his comeback was stronger than that original flare of giddy popularity.
He wasn’t a bumptious kid with some hit records, he’d lived a bit, and lost a bit and it showed. The danger of Frank Sinatra (aside from his genuine ability to physically threaten people) was also his unique gift – his capacity to understand people who had been too close to the fire themselves and were now busily attempting to put themselves back together, their way. It was His way.
I want to end this news report with the lines of a song called My Way by Frank Sinatra,
"For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught . To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels The record shows I took the blows and did it my way"
@AlpYılmazÇelenk
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I also kinda knew you were going to, but did it anyways. I am responding your mental high five with a double high five.
Btw, here is your custom double high five
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BBC News
December 14th 2015
The US is hitting so-called Islamic State (IS) harder than ever, President Barack Obama has said.
More air strikes were launched against the group in November than in any other month, he said in a Pentagon speech. In recent weeks, the US-led coalition has killed a number of its leaders and attacked the oil facilities it uses to finance its operations, he added. This is great news and hopefully it will reduce IS’s power. And if this operation and the following operations succeed; we will again have better peaceful middle east.
I had to double check to see if this information was correct. After checking to see if it was correct, which it was, My faith in humanity was attacked by this so called "president candidate" First it was the Mexicans, then it's Muslims. I am having a hard time understanding this guys vision about culture, race and religion. It is also unbelievable that a guy like him is not alone, he has millions behind just like him. But they say USA is a country of freedom/freedom of speech. So, I guess he has right to say whatever he desires to. However I think this a right that people like him misuse, and cause bad stuff happen.
BBC News
Los Angeles schools shut over email threat to students
All the schools in LA shut down because of the threading mail. "Earlier this morning we did receive an electronic threat that mentions the safety of our schools," said Steven Zipperman, chief of the Los Angeles school police department. So, they chose to shut the schools and be sure that everything is okay. The threat comes amid a heightened alert after 14 people were killed by a radicalised Muslim couple in San Bernardino, 60 miles east of Los Angeles. So, they shut down about 1,087 schools for people's safety. The message that the police department receive was not really specific about the place but it was a serious threat.
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