NEWS: La manada

The trial of "La Manada"

The trial of La Manada for the alleged violation of the Sanfermines of 2016 enters this 11/13/17 in a new phase with the presentation of the expert evidence. Medical reports, videos or whatsapp messages will be analyzed by experts, psychologists and forensic experts.

Although there is no stipulated calendar, everything seems to indicate that the session will begin 11/11 with the analysis of the medical reports made to the young woman from Madrid when she was transferred to a medical center within the protocol of action before an alleged sexual assault. These reports will be analyzed by forensics. The aim is to clarify whether the medical part presented by the young woman, apparently with some irritations, is compatible with a sexual assault.

The victim himself acknowledged that, due to the state of shock he entered, he did not put up resistance. He simply closed his eyes and wished that everything would be over as soon as possible. For that reason, the five defendants did not use force to attack her, so the forensic analysis of the medical parties will be essential to determine if these small injuries are compatible with a sexual act against the will of the victim.

Within the expert evidence, whatsapp messages that the defendants threw to their group of friends of the mobile app between the time of the act and their detention, some seven hours later, will also be presented and analyzed. Messages like "one among the five" were sentences that the defendants left for friends who did not go to the capital of Navarre.

The Court did not admit the messages prior to the trip to Pamplona in which they talked about the preparations for the trip. Nor did they admit a video of the month of May that the Foral Police found and that involved the opening of another investigation into another possible sexual assault in the town of Pozoblanco in Cordoba. The magistrates tried to limit all the evidence exclusively to what happened in portal number 5 of Paulino Caballero street in Pamplona on the night of July 6 to 7, 2016.

The videos
In all likelihood 13/11 the 7 videos that the members of La Manada did not erase and that remained on the mobile phone of one of the defendants will be viewed. They will be a total of 96 seconds in which the defendants had relations with the girl. The experts will have to unravel if the passivity shown by the young woman is compatible with a sexual assault. The defense of the defendants maintains that, if there is no express rejection, there is no aggression. On the contrary, the prosecution considers that if there is no express consent, there is no consent.

There will be two days of detailed explanations, minimum details that lead to clarify what happened that morning from 6 to July 7 in a portal on Paulino Caballero Street, in the center of Pamplona.

NEWS: Missiles in North korea

North Korea missile prompted Singapore Air plane re-route

Singapore Airlines has changed the path of its Seoul-Los Angeles flights after a recent North Korean missile test.

It joins a growing group of airlines who have re-routed planes because of Pyongyang's more frequent launches. They include Lufthansa and Air France, who now avoid the North's airspace.

North Korea does not announce its tests beforehand unlike other countries. This means their projectiles' flight paths are unknown, posing a possible danger to aeroplanes.

Are Pyongyang's missiles a risk to planes?
What could tip the balance into full conflict?
  
In a statement to the BBC, Singapore Airlines said it made the change after Pyongyang launched an intercontinental ballistic missile in July. The same missile had also prompted Air France to expand its no-fly zone around North Korea, after the airline found out the projectile may have been as close as 100km (62 miles) to one of its planes .

German carrier Lufthansa told the BBC that it had been avoiding North Korean airspace for more than a year, for services to Japan and South Korea.

It added that since the July missile, it also evaluates "each individual airline route on a daily basis". A decision on whether its planes should avoid the Sea of Japan is also "taken every day".

Recent missiles launched by Pyongyang have landed in Japanese waters. North Korea's rocket test in September reportedly also led Scandinavian and Swiss Airlines to re-route their flights into Japan.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42261948?intlink_from_url=http://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cywd23g0gz5t/north-korea&link_location=live-reporting-story

NEWS: People in mars?

UAE looks to Mars for STEM inspiration

The UAE Space Agency was formed as recently as 2014, and Dubai's Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center was established in 2015. The center has already successfully launched two home-grown satellites, and the Emirates is targeting Mars with plans for a probe in 2020 -- the Arab world's first mission to another planet. More ambitious still, there are plans to develop a human settlement on Mars by 2117.

At the World Government Summit in February 2017, the UAE previewed its vision of what that colony might look like. In November, their VR presentation was made available on YouTube.
In September, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, unveiled renders of Mars Science City, a $136 million simulation center planned for the desert outside Dubai.

The center will be covering 1.9 million square feet -- the largest project of its kind -- it will include  laboratories simulating the surface of Mars, agriculture testing areas and a museum. Much of it will be built using 3D printers.

The Emirates' space program is aware it's entering towards the back of the race.

Our primary target is having education and outreach," says Sarah Amiri, UAE minister of state for advanced sciences and science lead at the Emirates Mars Mission. "It's about building people, it's not about building buildings... It's creating people that are creative enough to stimulate your economy and to stimulate the growth of your entire nation."

In other words, space is a means to an end.
Afshin Molavi says "We sometimes think that the only way a space program is successful is when you have men on the moon planting a flag, or in the case of Dubai maybe rockets that land on Mars," he says. "But a space program is successful because of what it does on Earth."

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/07/middleeast/dubai-uae-mars-mission-global-gateway/index.html

NEW: Black holes

Farthest monster black hole found.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant "supermassive" black hole known to science. The black hole is a whopping 13 billion light-years away, so far that we see it as it was a mere 690 million years after the Big Bang.

It has about 800 million times the mass of our Sun, it managed to grow to a surprisingly large size in just a short time after the origin of the Universe. The newly discovered black hole is busily devouring material at the centre of a galaxy - marking it out as a so-called quasar.

Matter, such as gas, falling onto the black hole will form an ultra-hot mass of material orbiting around it. 

"Quasars are among the brightest and most distant known celestial objects and are crucial to understanding the early Universe," said  Bram Venemans of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany.
This quasar is interesting because it comes from a time when the Universe was just 5% of its current age. At this time, the cosmos was beginning to emerge from a period known as the dark ages - just before the first stars appeared.

"Gathering all this mass in under 690 million years is an enormous challenge for theories of supermassive black hole growth," said  Eduardo Bañados, from the Carnegie Institution for Science.

Prior to this discovery, the record-holder for the furthest known quasar existed when the Universe was about 800 million years old. The discovery of a massive black hole so early on may provide key clues on conditions that abounded when the Universe was young.

"This finding shows that a process obviously existed in the early Universe to make this monster," Dr Bañados explained.
"What that process is? Well, that will keep theorists very busy." 

 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42252235

NEW: California is burning

California wildfires: Flames seen from space.

Six large wildfires, and other smaller blazes have erupted since Monday, ther are about 500 buildings have been destroyed. Satellite imagery taken on December 5 shows how the fires took hold - driven by extreme weather, including low humidity, high winds and parched ground.

About 5,700 firefighters have been battling the brushfires, officials said on Thursday, with many drafted in from neighbouring states to help.

The Thomas fire in Ventura County to the north of Los Angeles remains the largest fire and spread as far as the Pacific coast. It consumed 180 square miles (466 sq km) since it broke out on Monday, and destroyed more than 430 buildings.

Creek Fire: Another blaze north of Los Angeles, the Creek fire, is 20% under control and covers some 15,323 acres.

Rye Fire: The Rye Fire threatened more than 5,000 homes and structures northwest of Los Angeles near Santa Clarita. It consumed thousands of acres and triggered evacuations of homes and schools.
The fire authorities say it is now 25% under control.

Skirball Fire: In the rich Los Angeles enclave of Bel Air, firefighters were seen removing artwork from luxury homes on Wednesday as the Skirball Fire raged. It has forced hundreds of residents in the wooded hills to evacuate and charred more than 475 acres.

Lilac Fire: North of San Diego, another blaze spread from 10 acres to 4,100 acres in just a few hours. It destroyed 20 structures and prompted evacuations and road closures.

Californian authorities have issued a purple alert - the highest level warning - amid what it called "extremely critical fire weather." 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42278027

MY WORLD: LOST

LOST 

Last year I started a series named Lost because a friend recommend it to me. At first I didn't like it because the first chapters I wasn't hooked,so I stop look it. Towards the end of the summer I started to watch it again, and then I liked it and I kept watching it.

The plot: It follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet, flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean. The story is told in a heavily serialized manner. Episodes typically feature a primary storyline set on the island, augmented by flashback or flash forward sequences which provide additional insight into the involved characters.

Now I've watched 2 seasons and 2 episodes. I couldn't watch more because of the exams and the school. But when the summer begin i will keep watching it. The series has 6 seasons so I still have a lot to see.

For now, I'm very intrigued by what will happen, Lost is one of those series where they leave many questions but there are no answers. I will have to wait to know this awnsers but is becoming one of my favorite series.

MY WORLD: MY FUTURE

What i will be doing in the future? That's a question I ask myself a lot. The thing is that I don't really know. 

Right now all I can see is batxillerat, and finish it. I am so stressed with it, although studies haven't  given me very good, really, but until now I hadn't study much. But this year I have to study a lot and I'm very tired of everything.
I'm tired of the professors that have passed all first batchillerat saying that students who didn't take the best notes of the class notes disturb. Like seriously? You are a professor, your duty is to teach students and to encourage them because they get better grades, not to depress them by saying that they are useless if they don't take good grades. 

Anyways, this year has started better than last year. I thank those teachers that encourage their students, and that really enjoy their work, those are the best.

All I want right now is to finish my studies here and take my gap year, and after that go to the university. Another problem is that I don't know what to study. I don't know nothing really. All I know is that i want to go far away from here.  

GAP YEAR

I have been thinking about a gap year for a long time, but now it's a reality. After I finish my batxillerat I will take a gay gap year and I will travel around the world. In my gap year I will be visiting as many places as I can, but I will go to New York and Los Angeles first. After I have been there for a few months in each place,  I will go to Mexico and Brazil to spend a few months in every place, and after that the last month I will go to Hawaii.

I will use Workaway, a page where you can pick any place of the world and go there.You have to pay the airplane, but when you arrive your host family will pay the expenses and the stay in his house in exchange for taking care of their children and the house. I will be working in every country in a house taking care of the children for 6 hours 5 days every week. The rest of the time I will have free time to visit the most exotic places of the country.

The first thing I have to do is save money for travel. My plan is to work from June (after finishing the selectivity) until December, and in January 2019 I will begin my trip. 

I want to do this gap year for myself, to disconnect from the student life and think well what I want to do in the future and what I want to study in the university. I've always wanted to volunteering in another countries so this will be my opportunity to do it. I also want to do it to learn new languages and cultures around the world. After I finish my career I'd like to have another gap year to go volunteering in developing countries to help people. 

   

FINAL TASK

1.  Can you see an improvement on your level of English in the past year/s?  Where, for example?

Of course I've seen an improvement on my level of English. Last year I had a vocabulary much more simple than this year.  I think it has to do with watching series in English with subtitles. Now I can talk much more fluid and now I now the things I have to say in every situation.

2. Which activity best shows your level of English? 

I think yoursays show the better my level of English because I can talk whatever I want and express me like  I want. My vocabulary is more increased and I use more advanced words. 

3. Which activities were really USEFUL for you to improve your English? Why? 

The news for me are the best, because you can chose the news you want or the ones more interesting at the moment. At the same time the news are written by professionals and there is a much more advanced vocabulary so I can learn words I didn't knew before.

4. Which activities did you NOT find useful to learn English? Why not? 

I think some task are useless like the ones about songs or that type of task. I think I don't learn nothing and this tasks could be activities about "selectivitat" to know how it would be and began to prepare it.

5. Which activities would like to do again next year to keep on improving your English?

I'd like to began to do more formal letters to know how to do it better, also do free optional activities  to improve some more aspects that are difficult to ourselves. What I'm trying to say is that if I am not good at something specific to do activities to improve it. I think that would help to every student to improve the thing more difficult for them and do it better. 

 

 

FORMAL LETTER

Rosselló n.7

Perelada

Girona

29 may 2017

Houston

New York

Bethlehem St

Dear Madame,

I am writing to ask you about information for your post of Workaway. I would like to apply for a position  I am 18 years old and I have just finished my secondary school. I will take a gap year in a few months and I am interested in your proposal. 

I would like to know more about your offer of work and know for sure how I could help in the house. I am very responsible and I am good with babysitting. I would like to join you and help you much as possible. I hope that you receive this letter and consider my proposal.

I thank you for your attention.

Yours faithfully,

NEWS

Ariana Grande announces a charity concert in Manchester after the attack

The American artist Ariana Grande has announced that she will return to the English city of Manchester to offer a charity concert to raise funds with which to help the victims of the attack last Monday.

"We are not going to let fear dominate us, to divide us. We will not let hatred win," she said in the statement announcing the charity concert. "I will return to the incredibly brave city of Manchester to spend time with my fans and hold a homage concert that raises funds for the victims and their families."

Grande defends in his message the integrative power of music. "When you look at the audience of my concerts you see a diverse, beautiful, happy crowd. Thousands of incredibly different people, united by the same motive: music, something that anyone on Earth can share, something that is done to heal us, Get closer, to make us happier. And that's what he's going to continue to do. " The singer says goodbye that the victims of the Manchester attack will be in their hearts "every day". "I'll think of them with everything I do for the rest of my life."

 

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SUMMER MOVIES

It is finally time for the summer movie showdown. Here's what you can expect from the top summer movies, these are a few that air this summer but there will be more.

-Guardians of the galaxy, vol 2: 

In theaters now This is the sequel to sci-fi space fantasy action thriller "Guardians of the Galaxy" released in 2014. The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mystery of Peter Quill's true parentage.

-Baywatch.

In theaters now. Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron team up for “Baywatch,” a reboot of the hit 1980s TV series. Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchanan butts heads with a brash new recruit. Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future of the Bay.

-Wonder Woman.

In theaters June 2. It wouldn't seem right to have summer flicks without superheroes. That's where Gal Gadot comes in, making her debut as “Wonder Woman.” Before she was Wonder Woman she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained warrior. When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, she leaves home to fight a war to end all wars, discovering her full powers and true destiny.

-Despicable me 3.

In theaters June 30.The Minions are back. This time Steve Carell returns in a dual role, playing twin brothers Gru and Dru in “Despicable Me 3.” Gru meets his twin brother Dru he never knew about and they begin a new adventure.

-Spider-Man: Homecoming.

In theaters July 7. There’s another Spider-man movie coming your way. Following the events of  Civil War (2016), Peter Parker attempts to balance his life in high school with his career as the web-slinging superhero Spider-Man.

- War for the Planet of the Apes.

In theaters July 14. The sequel to the 2014 “Planet of the Apes” makes its debut this summer. And you might want to add this one to your list.  After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind.

-Transformers: The Last Knight

In theaters June 23. The robots will return when 'Transformers' hits theaters with a fifth installment. Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.  

 

 http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/18-top-summer-movies-peter-travers-skip/story?id=47635893

 

MY WOLRD: BURGOS & LEON

This year the trip with the school was to Burgos and Leon, we go from 3rd of 7th of April. We were only 23 students and we go with Susi, Anna and Sonia. 

The first day we had to be in high school at five o'clock and we had to travel eight hours to reach Burgos, but we stopped a few times. When we arrived there we went to the hotel and leave our stuff there,after we went to see the Cathedral of Burgos and went for a walk through the city center. After that we returned to the hotel and we dinner there. The second day we went all day to Atapuerca. First we went to see  the museum of human evolution and after we went to Atapuerca the to see the deposits, after we finished that we went to a village to ate. When we finished we went to a place that was interactive and was a  part of the museum. Then we returned to the hotel and we went to ate in the center of the city.
The 3rd day we breakfast in the hotel and we went to "Les Medules" it was 315 km away so we spend most of the time in the bus. We lunch in Las Medulas and then we went to visit the cultural space of Las Medulas, we went walking and it was a trip of 3 hours. When we finished the trip we went to Leon, we left things in the hotel and went for a walk in the city, we also dinner there.

The 4th day we breakfast in the hotel and we went to the caves of Valporquero, we visited them and then we returned to Leon. In the afternoon we visited "La col·legiata de Sant Isidoro" and the chatedral. After we had free time to visit the rest of the city. At night we go to dinner in the city and the teachers left us stay until 2.30am so we go to a bar (There it wasn't the whole group, some of them went to the hotel directly. The rest of us stayed dancing in the bar). When we returned to the hotel went to Albert's room and we talked all night long, that night we didn't sleep.


The last day we went to breakfast and then we packed our stuff and we left the hotel. We stay all day in the bus and at 8pm we arrived in Castelló. I loved this trip, i have so much fun.

NEWS

MARC BARTRA INJURED AFTER EXPLOSION NEAR BORUSSIA DORTMUND'S TEAM BUS

Borussia Dortmund's team bus was damaged and a player was injured following three explosions near the vehicle while it was on its way to Tuesday's Champions League game at home to AS Monaco.The match, a quarter-final first leg, was called off and rescheduled for Wednesday."According to what is currently known, the windows of the bus were (entirely or partly) smashed and one person was injured,". The police said the incident happened in Hoechsten, located outside the city. "It is not yet possible to say exactly what the explosion was or exactly where something exploded," said the statement.

Dortmund said defender and Spanish international Marc Bartra had been taken to hospital. "The bus has been damaged in two places. One person has been injured and is in the hospital. At this point we will inform as soon as we know more."

Fortunately, the incident was just a scare and Marc Bartra only broke an arm because of the impact of the broken glasses. Is currently in hospital where he is awaiting surgery.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/04/11/marc-bartra-injured-explosion-near-borussia-dortmunds-team-bus/ 

NEWS

TERROR IN THE UK: RECENT ATTACKS

The deadly suicide bombing in Manchester, England, that killed 22 people and injured 59 others at an Ariana Grande concert Monday night is one of several terror attacks that have taken place in the U.K. in recent years.

The British people have endured politically-motivated attacks, attacks by right-wing extremists and attacks by Islamic extremists over the last few decades. It isn't the first attack of the UK, another attacks have happened in the past few years 

-April 1999: David Copeland bombings  

David Copeland was convicted in 2000 of killing three people and injuring 139 others after perpetrating a series of nail-bombing attacks that took place across the month of April 1999, according to reports by BBC News

-July 7, 2005: London Underground attack

Four suicide bombers armed with explosives attacked civilians traveling on London Underground trains. More than 50 people were killed and hundreds of others were injured.

-May 22, 2013: Murder of Lee Rigby

Two Islamic extremists  murdered Lee Rigby, a British soldier and veteran of the Afghanistan War, just outside an army barrack, telling eyewitnesses the killing was "as an eye for an eye ... because Muslims are dying by British soldiers every day".

-Dec. 5, 2015: Leytonstone knife attack

Shortly after the Paris attacks in November of 2015, a 29-year-old man, Muhaydin Mire, was  arrested for attempted murder after trying to stab people in the Leytonstone metro station with a knife.

-March 22, 2017: Westminster Bridge attack

Three people were killed, including a police officer, and at least 29 people were hospitalized following an attack in London that took place earlier this year. The attack began when a driver struck pedestrians and three police officers on Westminster Bridge.

-May 23, 2017: Manchester suicide bombing

ISIS claimed responsibility for the deadly explosion at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, Monday evening. Twenty-two people died and 59 others were injured in the attack.

The attacker died at the scene after using an improvised explosive device.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/terror-uk-timeline-recent-attacks/story?id=47579860

NASA FOUND A NEW SOLAR SYSTEM.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water.

At about 40 light-years (235 trillion miles) from Earth, the system of planets is relatively close to us, in the constellation Aquarius. Because they are located outside of our solar system, these planets are scientifically known as exoplanets.

This exoplanet system is called TRAPPIST-1, named for The Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile. In May 2016, researchers using TRAPPIST announced they had discovered three planets in the system. After they confirmed the existence of two of these planets and discovered five additional ones, increasing the number of known planets in the system to seven.

The new results were published Wednesday in the journal Nature, and announced at a news briefing at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Using Spitzer data, the team precisely measured the sizes of the seven planets and developed first estimates of the masses of six of them, allowing their density to be estimated.

"The seven wonders of TRAPPIST-1 are the first Earth-size planets that have been found orbiting this kind of star," said Michael Gillon, lead author of the paper and the principal investigator of the TRAPPIST exoplanet survey at the University of Liege, Belgium. "It is also the best target yet for studying the atmospheres of potentially habitable, Earth-size worlds."

In contrast to our sun, the TRAPPIST-1 star – classified as an ultra-cool dwarf – is so cool that liquid water could survive on planets orbiting very close to it, closer than is possible on planets in our solar system. All seven of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary orbits are closer to their host star than Mercury is to our sun. The planets also are very close to each other.

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-telescope-reveals-largest-batch-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around