“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