Police shooting sparks riots in Greece

        It had been said that 2 police have been arrested for killing a young boy, 15 years of age. When this news had spread  hundreds of youth took to the streets burning scores of shops, cars and businesses while throwing fire bombs and stones at riot police, who responded with tear gas. At least six people were arrested in Athens for destroying things.  The violence spread to other cities on Sunday, including Greece’s second-largest city, Thessaloniki, as well as Chania on the island of Crete. It remained unclear Sunday night whether authorities would move to storm the state university, a move forbidden by Greek law after military tanks in 1973 rammed the gates of the school to quash a student uprising against the then-ruling military junta. At least 22 civilians died in that attack, which is marked every year by youth-led marches that occasionally turn violent. According to the police, the two police officers were driiving in theor car, patrolling when their car had been stopped 30 youths, many of them throwing stones, at about 9 p.m. Both officers got out of the car to confront the crowd, “firing three shots that resulted in the death of the minor”!

        I think its really sad that the officers killed the minor, because they shouldn’t  have done that.. HE’S TOO YOUNG! They should of arrested him instead! Because hes the one saying that he hates people and besides hes the one who killed him!!!!! POOR BABY!!!!!! But still thats why you dont get involve with those problems and get the police upset, because then you can get hurt, arrested, hit, betten up, bullied, or even DIE! Because there is a girl at my class wo is very violence there are two of those girls nad if you get invovled with their personeal problems, they’ll bully you hahaha thats mean but you can alwways tell on THEM!!! 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/world/europe/07iht-greece.4.18467468.html?_r=2&scp=3&sq=shooting%20in%20greece&st=cse

Sri Lanka vanquishes the Tamil Tigers! Victory!!! 5/19

       OMG! Have you seen people attacking tigers with their hands well guess what this article is going to tell you all about it. This men saw tigers in their backyard and were all surrounded. What a scary moment for them because no one would be that brave to do that u could get killed. Wow this article really surprised me. Sri Lanka claims their victory in a quarter-century war that cost 70, 000 lives. That’s more than since January that cost 7, 000 lives. This was the worst war they ever had. They had many suicide bombers, politicians, and child soldiers. The last days of the war and the rebel leader Velupillai prabhakaran and his crew died. Sri Lankan government defeated those nasty rebels using a hardware. China, India, and Israel all supported and gave into this war. Sri Lanka struggled and fought for independence and peace for their country. 265 ,00 people all helped in this crucial war by fighting, their lands in ruin. The Red Cross is helping all the people of Sri Lanka who suffered in the war by providing water, food, and shelter for the people. 

      This article was interesting to me because many different countries suported Sri Lanka and helped them during the war. I mean who in this world would be so brave to do this. Also it’s sad that Sri Lanka uses child as  soldiers for the war.

This article affects me and my community becuase it’s sad just to hear that there is a war happening somewhere in the world. Then people die because they dont like eachother or sumthin gosh. Can’t people just have peace between each other they have better brains and if i were in those peoples shoes i would definetly be brave and make a speech coming out of my own words with no paper i mean it was enough with the world war 2 now can this EVER STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/sri-lanka-vanquishes-tamil-tiger67/87=0983523-5142397.htm

Baby born with two faces in north India

  

       There was a baby born with two faces named Lali. She has a serious condition called craniofacial duplication. It means that a single head has two faces, except for the ears, has two noses, two pairs of eyes, and two pairs of lips. Lali is doing really well and is not having any problems with breathing.  They and parents plus the docters are wondering how could she breath,see, and hear at the same time with those two faces the poor baby girls has. She is being worshiped as their incarnation of a Hindu Goddess. This is how it all started. Laili left the hospital eight hours after she was delivered and she was perfectly fine, until she was swarmed by villagers. Doctors say she is fine she’s drinking milk from her two mouths and blinks her four eyes at the same time. 100 people every day come to visit her and touch her feet and give her offerings of money. 

        This article was interesting to me because I never knew about this baby named Lali who got two faces. WOW weird though.

      This article affects me and my community because its sad that a baby can be born with two faces it’s sad becuase people aren’t respectful so they just laugh at the person. And also because people thing its so unlucky for them to have an ugly baby like that but that baby laili is not ugly she is sent as a gaurdian angel sent form heaven and those parents are lucky that baby is not perfect but she is and angel form God. So people shouldnt be making fun of her because she doesnt deserve being made fun of. Come ON THOSE PEOPLE HAVE BRAINS!!!!!!! 

http://nytimes.com/baby-born-with-two-2-faces-india.htm/872-89077.opg977876421322

A Billionaire, Sabotage and a Mysterious Death

        A technician reported last week that someone had tampered with a private helicopter of Anil Ambani, one of India’s wealthiest industrialists, while it was parked at a Mumbai airport. Then, on Tuesday, the technician, Bharat Borge, was found dead on railroad tracks in Mumbai. He was carrying a letter that mentioned the tampering investigation, Mr. Borge’s family and officials of Mr. Ambani’s company said. Cut to the detectives arriving at the crime scene. Debate raged in India on Wednesday over whether Mr. Borge had committed suicide, had been pushed or was yet another accidental victim of the trains, which kill an average of 10 people a day. The case has become a cause célèbre in India, not just because of the mystery around the technician’s death but also because it involves Mr. Ambani, the billionaire chairman of the Reliance ADA Group, whose company straddles industries including telecommunications, energy and movies.  

       I think that someone killed the technician, because he had told and reported about the crime. And the person who had messes around in the helicopter got angry and wanted revenge. I learned that you shouldn’t be messing around with others stuff in the first place, then you create huge problems. And then sometimes you get in a fight for no reason just because you want revenge. Like people call me Shrimpay!!! or i call myself that but i never want revenge and call other people names i mean they just do that for fun.  Its really sad that that innocent had died, may he rest in peace! Shrimpayyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!  

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/business/global/30ambani.html?_r=1&scp=6&sq=india%20murders&st=cse

5 Vocab Words

gruesome: causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly. There was a gruesome murder last night near my street.

demean: to lower in dignity, honor, or standing; debase. The boy was demean by accepting the mean critisisms others told about him.

pervade: to become spread throughout all parts of. When winter is over spring will pervade.

surmise: to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess. I forgot the answer to a question on my test so I had to surmise.

tremulous: Characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness. My friend was tremulous after riding the scary rollercoaster.

17 killed as Indian’s elections get underway 4/20

       India’s first day of voting in a monthlong election got off to a rocky start. Militants attacked polling efforts in four states, killing at least 17 people. Its a massive problem involving 714 million eligible voters using 1.3 million voting booths in more than 823,000 polling sites. India is no stranger to violence between rival political groups. The attacks took place in several voting districts in the eastern part of India known as the “red belt”. A land mine killed five polling officials, two paramilitary soldiers died in a gunfight, and five polling stations came under a fire. ix border guards, a bus driver and his assistant died on their way to the election center in another explosion.

    This article affects me because thats sads that those militants killed 17 people when they were voting. They casued explosions and gunfighting. Why’d thye kill those 17 people??? For what??? 

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-india-attack17-2009apr17,0,2428430.story

In Teeming India, Water Crisis Means Dry Pipes and Foul Sludge

    People of all over U.S.A dont have a problem with waisting water but guess what in this interesting article that I read it says that India chilldren under the age of 5 are dieng because of that. They have run out of water and thats not good because thet’ve gotta survive. This crisis has been growing very fast. Water all has been too hard to get in some areas, contaminated in others and plenty for millions who are flooded each year. Today the problems threaten India’s ability to build its farms, support its economic growth and make its cities healthy. 

         More than 700 million Indians, do not have enough clean water. Largely for lack of clean water, 2.1 million children under the age of 5 die each year. About 9 out of 10 Indians have access to the public water supply, but  may include going dry or are contaminated.    Unless dramatic changes are made soon, India will not have the money to supply and build new foundations, nor the water required for the economy and for people because if they don’t keep on waisting water than that problem in their economy can prbally change. Though, crisis say we still dont know.

      People here dont have a problem with their water running out, because if the water dont come out or doesnt work you can call the water tanker or someone to help you. Well, India is not really doing good with water.

             This effects me, because India is going through a tough time, by not having enough water and cant supply the people easily. And here in the U.S had tought me a lesson because everytime I’ve taken showers and i never turned off the water only sometimes and to me thats sad because its like im killing someone else and im not that kind of person. Comeon we have brains and we know better than that we should never ever but NEVER waste water its just a waiste of time.  This shows me that we are lucky to have water, and should appreciate it by not wasting it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/world/asia/29water.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=problems%20in%20india&st=cse

5 Vocab words for 4/15

 1. Berth- A shelflike sleeping place.

My book case is like a berth.

2. Draw- To cause to move in a particular direction.

At the first round of the basketball game there was a draw.

3. Qualifying- To provide knowledge.

I was qualified to go into the volleyball team!!!!

4. Semifinals- A match or competition the final one.

My softball tem was at the semeifinals.

5. Croatia- A republic in SE Europe.

Once my family went to croatia.

Chinas outline plan for electric cars

       The chinese are trying to become the largest producer of electric cars in the world! Even though they have to bring great effort and there will be many challenges and obstacles, they promised to overcome it all. They will have to pick which electric vehicle models would become popular Zhang Shaochun said, a vice minister of finance. The main step will be to lower prices for buyers of electric cars.

      While electric cars are working faster, they remain  twice as expensive as same sized gasoline-powered cars,  greater range, higher top speeds and better records for safety. Speaking at a conference at the government’s prestigious Diaoyutai guesthouse here, the officials acknowledged that their efforts faced challenges in terms of the cost and safety of electric cars. They promised a nationwide effort by manufacturers, universities, research institutes and government agencies to overcome these obstacles.

      China’s biggest automakers, said that the China fast growing has three problems: air pollution, rising damage of imported oil and traffic jam. If these three obstacles cannot be solved, the Chinese auto industry cannot grow right! Wan Gang, a former Audi engineer in Germany who is now China’s minister of science and technology, portrayed the country’s electric car initiative as central to China’s international competitiveness, but said that there were environmental goals as well. “We need to be sustainable in different sectors, particularly in the auto sector,” he said.

      Alternative-energy vehicles are the only way out to fix these challenges, without explaining how a change from gasoline-powered cars to electric cars would fix the never lasting traffic jams in Chinese cities.  

       This effects me, because thats cool they are trying to become the largest producers of electric cars, but it will take a lot of effort! The economy is hard and they need money to help fix more cars! There are three car related problems that must be hard to fix, so I wish them the best to overcome their goal! :-*kisses To All! MuAh!!! haha. lol Remeber Jazmin Loves U!!! ♥ Jazmin♥   

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/business/energy-environment/11electric.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=china%20electric%20cars&st=cse

5 Vocab Words

revenue- the government department charged with the collection of such income.
sentence- the revenue check our neighbors income.

advertising-paid announcements
sentence-They get more customers in the store by advertising.

Phonographic-pertaining to, or characteristic of a phonograph
sentence-

innovate-to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
sentence- The teachers had to innovate the new student to the class.

executive-a person or group of persons having administrative or supervisory authority in an organization.
sentence-The boy had executive ability to skateboard.