“Violence is not only impractical but immoral.” Martin Luther King Jr.

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Women's activists have marked November 25 as a day to fight violence against women since 1981. On December 17, 1999, the United Nations General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The UN invited governments, international organizations and NGOs to organize activities designated to raise public awareness of the problem on this day as an international observance. Women around the world are subject to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence, and the scale and true nature of the issue is often hidden.
This date came from the brutal assassination in 1960 of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the  Dominican Republic, on orders of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo (1930–1961).
(Taken from Wikipedia)

Hair Stylists: A Battered Woman's Best Friend?

Salon employees in Ohio have been trained to assist victims of domestic abuse.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/hair-stylists-battered-womans-best-friend-17263373

COLD TURKEY

Have you ever enjoyed a traditional Thanksgiving dinner?
You haven't!!? Neither have I. Just in my dreams. But I'm determined to cook my own Thanksgiving meal next year. In just one hour! No fuss! You can too! See how: http://youtu.be/Rar_AsEzuEk



Photocopy from 23rd November_Thanksgiving dinner_questions & tapescritpt: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THU0tQZTl0MWtJUzA
Photocopy from 22nd November: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THRUYtV1B5WWpYRnc

GRAY THURSDAY (abc News):  http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/gray-thursday-thanksgiving-shopping-madness-kicks-off-17785587

SAVE THANKSGIVING

Listen to  Gregg Richard, President of P.C. Richard & Son, talk  with Governor Paterson  on WOR Radio about the values and the choice to remain closed on Thanksgiving:

 

Read the related articles:
http://wilton.patch.com/articles/amid-controversy-some-stores-open-thanksgiving-day
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/11/22/black-friday-shopping-begins-thursday-for-many-large-retail-chains/
http://napervillesun.suntimes.com/news/16428703-418/thanksgiving-shopping-seen-as-a-mixed-bag-for-workers-shoppers.html

SPOT ON

 

Photocopy from 20th November 2012: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THaC1WQjhLd255U1U

 

Personality disorders

'Ice cream murder' trial begins in Vienna 
20 November 2012 Last updated at 02:41 GMT

The trial has begun in Vienna of a Spanish-Mexican woman accused of murdering both her former husband and her lover, and burying them in concrete in the cellar of her ice cream shop.

Estibaliz Carranza is accused of shooting her former husband in the head in 2008, and killing her lover in his sleep in 2010. It is alleged that she then dismembered the bodies before burying them in the shop's basement.

Carranza has pleaded guilty to the charges.

(Adapted from BBC News)

Watch the video about this trial: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20404548

Read more about this case: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/cold-blooded-ice-cream-lady-on-trial/story-fnddckzi-1226520013703

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/918282-ice-lady-estibaliz-carranza-killed-lovers-and-hid-bodies-in-her-parlour

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235586/Goidsargi-Estibaliz-Esti-Carranza-The-Ice-Cold-Killer-accused-murdering-husband-lover.html

Estíbaliz Carranza is now in a unit for the 'mentally abnormal'. Can a personality disorder make you behave in a wicked way?

Listen to this radio programme to find out what the experts say: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/04/2010_10_mon.shtml
Listen to the programme again, this time with the transcript and find the fourteen mistakes that the transcriber made. Spotting them is not enough: you have to correct them too!
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THai1RUEJSTV9HT28

Read these articles about Emma Charlton:
  2010: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255438/Conwoman-cheated-mother-gran-fiance-150-000-jailed.html
  2012: http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/evening-chronicle-news/2012/08/17/maneating-fraudster-emma-charlton-jailed-again-72703-31642817/


 

GETTING WORKED UP

Photocopy from 13^thNovember_IN A FIX_BLAME_RUMOUR HAS IT:https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THeWJJNjU5bjJUY2M

Photocopy from 15^thNovember_GENERAL STRIKE_NATIONWIDE STOPPAGE_BULLYING:https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THWDRiV01yTlRxUlU






Sunset Park by Paul Auster--Audiobook Excerpt
Listen  to this audiobook excerpt and hear Paul Auster read from his novel Sunset Park:

PLAYING THE BLAME GAME

Whoops! The other day I did not upload Obama's victory speech but a previous one that took place during the presidential campaign. I'm to blame. It's all my fault.
So here you are the real McCoy:

SUGAR DADDY

WORLD DIABETES DAY

Learn a bit about why World Diabetes Day is celebrated on November 14th: http://www.idf.org/worlddiabetesday/about

Rise in diabetes cases

Ian Foster was diagnosed with diabetes when he was just 32. He is suffering from a condition which is increasing at an alarming rate across Northern Ireland.

Every day about ten new cases are diagnosed here.
While not life threatening, if left undetected this common illness can have huge consequences.
The figures are so worrying that they have triggered urgent calls for the Health Service to sit up and take notice. Find out more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8041152.stm

MONEY DOESN'T MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND?

Spanish bank halts foreclosures after evicted woman's suicide

Sun Nov 11, 2012 4:30PM GMT
You can read the complete article if you click on the following link: http://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/11/11/271621/spanish-bank-stops-homeowner-evictions/

Politics

EVICTIONS

Spanish banks suspend evictions after woman´s suicide sparks outrage

STAFF

Nov 12,  2012

There have been nearly 400,000 evictions in Spain since a property bubble burst in 2008

Read the rest of the article by clicking here

IN A FIX

 Photocopy from 8^thNovember_HOMOPHONES: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THdk9xaGNrT2JTcDQ 

Photocopy from 8^thNovember_TRAMPLE_PUT THE BLAME ON MAME:  https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THN0xPUmxocER3aEE                                                                                                               

You can listen to the guitar version of PUT THE BLAME ON MAME (with Mrs O'Leary's cow, the blizzard in Manhattan and all that) if you click on the following link: http://youtu.be/v3uzB-q0jsU

Here's Obama's acceptance speech on 6th November 2012:                         
 

And here's Mitt Romney's concession speech:


You can compare Obama's speech with that George Bush gave in 2004:
 

LET YOUR HAIR DOWN

If you click on the link below you will be able to see a scene from the film Gilda where Rita Hayworth sings a famous song.

The song is divided in two parts, each  with a reference to a past event.
-In which part does she make reference to an earthquake?
-Does she use the word "earthquake" or the word "quake"?
-What is the other  'incident'?
-Was Lou guilty?

Find out!! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY2IpSCV-Nk&feature=share&list=PLNY_d3Ecd8GRS-QWAUKK-FjxkYqx7tAM0

Photocopy 1 from 6^th November 2012_Hurricane Sandy: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THNnc4NnpqdW9YMEk

Photocopy 2 from 6^th November 2012_WORK_SENTENCE MARKERS: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THUFdfcjB0WjZQT1E

BRACE YOURSELVES!

BBC NEWS
29 October 2012
Millions of residents of the northeast of the United States are bracing themselves for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy.
President Obama has urged residents of low-lying areas to heed warnings to evacuate their homes.
Experts are predicting Hurricane Sandy could be bigger than anything seen in the eastern states of America in decades.
David Shukman reports on a weather system that is already being referred to as a 'super storm'.

Listen to this piece of news and see if you were right when predicting which words might appear in the text: floods?  gale-force winds?  swamp?  disaster? death toll? storm? ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20128931

What category is hurricane Sandy?
Why is it considered "extremely unusual"?
What effect is "the mass of cold air coming from the Artic" having on the hurricane?
The weather has forced the financial market __________________________________

Photocopy from 30th October_Tsunami:https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THSzR1aV9pa3JreE0

Photocopy from 30th October_Sunset Park_exercises:  https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THVVJJang4bEJSS1k
Sunset Park_Key to exercises: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THMHo1eHFzMGt6TjA