Last.fm

Last.fm is a website for music and bands. Last.fm creates a detailed profile of your musical taste by recording details of the songs you listen to.

First of all you have to get an account and download the program, Lastfm Scrobber, which helps you to transfer the music that you are listening to at that moment. By and by, the tracks you listen to will be recorded on your page and so your friends can know your musical taste. According to your musical taste, Lastfm will recommend to you new songs and bands that you might also like.

Lastfm has so many radios for all kinds in its database. You can listen to 30 songs per a month. If you want more, you have to pay 3 euros per a month. And also you can find the events which are near you live and you can add these gigs to your calender. And you can make new friends who have same musical tastes as you.

Get in and enjoy !

http://www.last.fm

And this is my profile, see you there
http://www.last.fm/user/p_raem

LIONEL MESSI

Lionel Messi was born in Rosario, Argentina on June 24, 1987 . He is a football player who currently plays for FC Barcelona and captains the Argentina national team as a striker.

He began playing football at a young age and his potential was quickly identified by Barcelona .

He left Rosario in 2000 and moved with his family to Barcelona where he was offered treatment for his hormone growth deficiency .

Despite his youth, Lionel has already drawn comparisons with Diego Maradona, arguably the best football player of all time. People called him “the new Diego Maradona.”

Lionel is strong, fast and creative. He is comfortable at any of the forward positions and is not intimidated by bigger players. There is almost nothing he cannot do on a soccer field, and his powerful shot makes him especially good on set plays, such as penalty kicks and corners.

He is an unusual player, is highly creative and has the skills to take on defenders .

Messi made his unofficial game for the first time against FC Porto on November 16 2003.

Actually he has a lot of awards and honours, both personally and as a team, and he is still playing for FC Barcelona.

Messi wears number 10 .

BIRTHDAY : 24/6/1987

FULL NAME : LIONEL ANDERIES MESSI

PLACE OF BIRTH : ROSARIO ARGENTINA

HIGHT : 1.69 cm

WEIGHT : 67 kg

LIVES IN : BARCELONA SPAIN

CLUB : FC Barcelona
POSITION : Forward
DEBUT : 17 November 2003

MARADONA

MARADONA, who was known as the best football player in the world, was born in Argentina in 1960. He started to play football when he was 10. At first he played for Argentina Juniors. Then after the 1982 World Cup, he was transferred to Barcelona in Spain then to Napoli in Italy, where he reached the peak of his professional career. Whilst there he won a lot of championships and the Italian Super Cup. He lead the Argentina team to victory in the Fifa World Cup in 1986.

Whilst he was in Napoli, his personal problems increased and he got a 15-month ban for failing a drugs test for cocaine. In 1992, he left Napoli to go to Seville in Spain. One year later he left to go to Boca Juniors in Argentina. In 1994, Maradona played in only two games in the Fifa World Cup before being sent home after failing a drug test for ephedrine doping.

From 2008 to 2010, he lead Argentina as a coach. Now he is in Al Wasl FC.

Michael Jackson by Adrian and Banafshe

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson, who was born in 1958, started to sing with his brothers in the group “Jackson 5” when he was a child.
He started to sing alone in 1975 and he wrote solo album “Thriller”, which is the most sold in the history of music in 1982, whose famous songs are “Billie Jean”, “Beat it” and “Thriller”.

Since then he burned his face in 1984, he began experimenting with plastic surgery around this time. In 1985 he sang “ We are the world”, which is a charity song for Africa with other famous singers.

In 1994, he got married with Lisa Marie Presley, but they got divorced in 1996 and, the same year he met the nurse Debbie Rowe, who had two children with him, whose names are Prince and Paris.

He was arrested on charge related incidents with a 13-year-old-boy, in 2004, because of the trouble relationship with his father, when he was a child.
He died on June 25, 2009 because he suffered cardiac arrest in his Los Angeles home.

Adrian Maquieira Cambon

Banafshe Golshahi

Matt Damon...

He was born on October 8, 1970 in Cambridge (America).
He has a brother, Kyle, who is an accomplished sculptor and artist. His family moved to Newton and later their parents divorced so they went back to Cambridge with their mother.

Damon studied in Harvard University but he didn't graduate because he took part in student theatre.
In 1997 he was recognised by the "Los Angeles Times" as a "talented young actor" and his career started.
After he met Steven Spielberg who cast Damon as the main character in "Saving Private Ryan" in 1998.

In Miami he met his wife and they got married on Decembre 9 2005. One year after they had their first child and who they called Isabella. On August 20, 2008 they had their second child, Gia. Both girls were born in Miami but their last child was born in New York on October 20, 2010, her name is Stella.
But his wife, Lucia, has another child from a previous marriage, Alexia, and Damon became her stepfather.

Damon has had many awards and honours. These include:
-A nomination for the Academy Awards as "Best Actor in a Leading Role."
-An Academy Award for "Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the screen"
-On July 25, 2005, Damon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
-Damon was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive".
-Damon won "Best Ass-Kicker" and "Guy of the year" at the Spike Guys' choice awards of 2008.

Yanni one of the greatest composers and pianist

People might think that a good musician is a one who has a good academical knowledge but I beleive that the most effective pieces of music have been created by people who had never looked at music as a knowledge but they have lived with it and  music runs in their body like blood.and like that when you listen to their music you will defenately underestand the difference.Yanni is one of these people.His music captures  mind and soul and you can hardly forget it when you once listen to it.

Yanni born in Greece in 1954 is a self-taught pianist who could not read musical notes. He was also a competitive swimmer in Greece and set a national record in the 50-meter freestyle competition at the age of 14.After attending the university he joined a local group named chameleon.After graduation he moved to Los Angeles and formed his own band in 1987.

Yanni's breakthrough success came with the release of his album and video,Yanni Live at the Acropolice,filmed on September 23, 1993 . This was Yanni’s first live album and utilized a full orchestra under the supervision of the Iranian conductor,Shahrdad Rohani, in addition to his core band. Subsequently, the concert was broadcast in the US and quickly became one of their most popular programs ever, having been seen in 65 countries by half a billion people. It has almost continuously remained on the charts since its release and is the second best-selling music video of all time, selling more than 7 million copies worldwide.    A composition from this album, was determined to have the"Mozart Effect" by the Journal of the Royal Sociaty of Medicine.

In 2000, after a two-year sabbatical, Yanni released his first studio album in seven years: If I could tell you.One of the most effective sound tracks of all time.
Yanni released the album,Truth of Touch, early in February 2011. Yanni is also working to expand his tour to Eastern Europe, Asia and South American countries including Chile, Argentina, and Brazil.

Ennio Morricone: The sound of cinema

If there is one name linked to the great classics of cinema, it is Ennio Morricone. This Italian composer and conductor has become one of the most acclaimed musicians of the 20th century, even receiving an honorary academy award in 2007 "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music".
He was born in Rome, Italy in 1928. Being son of a jazz trumpeter, he started to show his early talent for music, and joined Rome's Conservatory of Santa Cecilia when he was 12 years old. In his youth, he suppoted himself by playing as a trumpeter in jazz bands and working for Italy's national radio. However, he was really succesful as a composer of film sountracks, as many as 500, and some of them as famous as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Mission, Cinema Paradiso, The Untouchables and Once upon a Time in America by Sergio Leone, with whom he formed one of the great director/composer parnerships in cinema history.

Nowadays, he continues to compose soundtracks for films as well as other kinds of work, like the recently launched album Paradiso by Hayley Westenra.

Ráfaga

Music is something that we need in our daily lives. It helps when you are discouraged and makes you feel happy when you're sad. But not everybody has the same taste in music. In this essay, I'm going to write a short review about the group Ráfaga and a concert I once saw.

Often regarded as one of the most important bands in Latin American music, Ráfaga, were formed in 1994 in Buenos Aires (Argentina). They started to gain popularity when they released their first album "Soplando Fuerte". But it was from 1997 to 1999 when they gained their current international popularity performing in places like USA, South America, Spain, Sweden, Norway and Australia. Finally they reached the peak of their career when Ariel Pachetta left the group and the young heart throb Rodrigo Gonzalo Tapari joined Ráfaga.

Last September, I had the opportunity to attend one of their crowded concerts. There were two concerts before theirs and the atmosphere totally changed when they got onto the stage. The opening act was remarkable because they threw some signed footballs to the audience with the aim of celebrating the World Cup that Spain had just won. The group gave the audience 100% so at the end of the performance they had to play three songs for the encore.

Hans Zimmer, The man who makes movies come to life.

Music is an essential and crucial part of every movie. It is what makes us cry or laugh, it makes films scary, touching, funny or sad.

We all know the famous and amazing soundtracks from big Hollywood-blockbusters such as Gladiator, Batman: The Dark knight, Pirates of the Caribbean, Inception or Sherlock Holmes.
In this post, I will introduce you the man behind this music, Hans Zimmer.


Hans Florian Zimmer (born September 12, 1957) is a German composer and producer of film-music. He has composed the music for over 100 films so far and has been in the business for over 30 years.



He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, but he moved to London as a teenager. Later, he went to America, where he still lives today.

Zimmer has received various prizes for his works, including 4 Grammy Awards and two Golden Globes and he was nominated as one of the 100 living geniuses, published by "The Daily Telegraph". He has even been given his own star on the "Hollywood Walk of Fame" alongside legends like Michael Jackson, an honour that is only awarded to the most succesful men in the entertainement business.

Zimmer himself plays a range of instruments, e.g. Piano, Keyboard, Synthesizer, Guitar.

If you are interested in more information about this exceptionally gifted artist, or if you want a complete list of his work, check out his homepage http://www.hanszimmer.com/

Yann Tiersen, musician and storyteller

It is commonly known that we all have songs which we may identify with whilst listening to them, maybe because of their lyrics or just due to the sounds of the instruments. Of all the possible singers and musicians I could choose from, I have chosen Yann Tiersen, a French musician who is best known for his unmistakable work in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Amelie, as well as other great works.

Yann Tiersen was born in Brittany, France, on the 23rd of June 1970. From an early age he showed interest for music, and that ambition took him to study at different music academies in France including those in Rennes, Nantes and Boulogne, where he received classical training. In spite of this, in the early 1980s he was influenced by post-punk bands, such as The Stooges and Joy Division. In the 1990s, he composed the background music for many French plays and short films, such as La Vie Revee des Anges, Alice et Martin and Qui Plume la Lune?. The talent of this musician can also be seen in his amazing ability to play different instruments, because apart from playing conventional instruments such as the piano and guitar, he also plays not very common instruments, like the melodica, the xylophone, the toy piano, the harpsichord, the accordion and even the typewriter.

In my opinion, his music is very special and interesting because you can recognise it immediately when you just listen to it even if you do not know which piece is it. Tiersen has a very intimate style, which makes his music very different to any other musician's. As I see it, many people might enjoy listening to his compositions, because they have the ability to give you a hundred different feelings when listening to them, like happiness, sadness, homesickness, etc, depending on the mood of the person. Listening to, for example, the soundtrack J'y Suis Jamais Alle, you might suddenly want to move to Paris and walk down some ancient steps while you hear the sound of an accordion played by some busker at the bottom.

In conclusion, I think this man deserves the most respect in the world of music, not just for doing something different without caring if a huge mass of people will like and buy it, but also for having his own style, and the power of telling stories without saying a word, just with the use of his instruments.

GOOD MANNERS IN TURKEY

Turkey is a big county, with 70 million people, it's a mixture of European and Arabic culture.

GREETINGS

About greetings, they have an European behavior when they meet someone for first time, they kiss on both cheeks and after that they shake hands.

CLOTHES

In Turkey, they can wear European clothes or Arabic style, if they are Arabic they have to be careful, specially women, who can't show their body. They must wear clothes that cover their body an also a head scarf.

FOOD AND DRINK

It's well-known that the most typical food in turkey is the Kebab, but they have an types of food that you can imagine. However, you shouldn't eat pork, if you want to respect their religion. In restaurants you must tip 10% of the bill, but is only in the most expensive restaurants. If you are over 18, you are lucky, because you can buy and drink whatever you want.

CELEBRATIONS

They only celebrate religious holidays and New Year's party which is celebrated by half of the population. On this day, they have the dinner with their family and they give presents to each others.

Good Manners in Turkey

Hi! I'm going to write about my partner's country and their customs and traditions.

• Greetings:

In Turkey you have to shake hands when you meet somebody. Although with your friends you can kiss on both cheeks and have physical contact between men a women.

• Clothes:

It is not an obligation for women to wear a head scarf. However, some women wear it for their religion. Apart from this, everybody can wear all kinds of clothes, even shorts ans skirts.

• Food and drink:

They eat three times a day: breakfast, dinner and lunch. For breakfast they drink tea and orange juice and eat eggs. For lunch they have salads, hamburgers, toast, kebabs and other things. Finally, for dinner, their most important meal, they eat soup, salads and meat like chicken and kebabs.

• Culture:

In Turkey there are various religions. It is the most important thing about their culture, although they don't have to pray daily like in other places.

• In public:

They have rules from the government such as they must not smoke in public buildings, but you are allowed smoke outside.

QATAR

Qatar is a small country, the capital of Qatar is Doha. There are big buildings in the centre but in the suburbs, there are a lot of big house.

About greetings, they kiss on both cheeks or shake hands, it depends on their relationship.

Everyday, men wears a thawb and women sometimes wear an abaya, but they don't only wear that in work with uniform (police...).

In Qatar, people don't eat pork or drink wine, because their religion doesn't allow it. They go to the Mosque five times every week. People in Qatar try to help poor people or other poor countries though their religion.

About their houses, everybody has maids and drivers. Normally, a house has three or four big living-rooms.

In public, you can't drink in the street and you can't smoke inside.

Qatar is a beautiful country to visit.

Good Manners in Thailand.

I'm going to give you some advice about things you should or shouldn't do if you go to Thailand.

Greetings-->How should you behave when you meet someone for the first time? In Thailand, the greeting is made by pressing both hands together at the chest, as if you're praying and bowing your head slightly, eye contact is avoided as a sign of respect.

Clothes--> All kinds of clothes are acceptable, except when you go to the temple,you need polite dress.

Food and Drink--> In Thailand, dinner is often the biggest meal of the day. Every meal is served with rice., but in Thailand can eat every food. Tipping in a restaurant depends on the person.

Culture--> In the winter, they have Songkran to celebrate the new year. And in November, Long Kralong, when they apologise to Kong Ha.

Body Language--> In Thailand, one person can't touch the head of another person and eye

contact is avoided as a sign of respect.

In Public--> In Thailand, they can't smoke in public.

Rules--> They've a special law for speed, they mustn't drive faster than 120 km/hour , which is the same as in Spain.

Good Manners In Spain

If you want to travel to Spain, you need to know about good manners in this country. Here are some things you should know and some things you should avoid.

Greetings in Spain are normally the same as other western countries. They shake hands to say hello but the Spanish also kiss friends on both cheeks.

For clothes, you can wear whatever you want to wear because in Spain there are no specific rules for your clothes. But on special occasions you should wear smart clothes.

For food and drinks, the Spanish eat lunch as the main meal of the day. And when you are there you should try 'tapas', the traditional Spanish food. And it's not necessary to tip after you finish your meal.

For culture, in February there is a carnival in Spain where people wear different clothes. It is fantastic to come at this time. Another celebration is New year when the Spanish eat 12 grapes because they want a wish from god and 1 grape means 1 wish.

For regulation, it's the same as other countries, there is a speed limit, you mustn't drive more than 120 km./h. And you can't smoke indoors but you can smoke in public.

a little bit of descriptive writing...

So...this is my first blog entry on the Berlitz Manchester blog. As homework we had to do some descriptive writing about a scene we could choose. Our teacher Joel then had the idea to post it on the blog. So here is mine:

The children were laying on the parched ground like dead animals in the shadow of a small tree. It was too hot and too exhausting to run around and have fun. But something was different that day and they could feel it. The air was salty and oppressive. Suddenly a wind came up and blew dark and heavy clouds across the sky. Big rain drops fell on the ground and the children began to jump around like animals driven wild because they were so excited. It seemed like the rain was breathing new life into them while you could hear the heavy drops knocking on the dusty roof...

First signs

Yeah, actually our teacher, Joel, gave us this as a homework. We had to write a short scene with lots of adjectives and so on.
At that moment I was thinking of my prospective Croatian holiday with my family and boyfriend and that`s why I wrote this below. But at that moment I didn`t know that my boyfriend can`t come with us because there isn`t enough place for one more person. But here is the scene:

"They are staring at the sea, which is as glittering, because of the rising sun, as his almond-shaped diamond eyes. He looks at her softly, his face warms up the chilling purplish red dawn. They can speak without words, even a small smile is enough to show their eternal love. They are breathing the fresh mediterraenan air as if they were breathing their first breath in this very moment.
They are holding each others` hands tightly as though they never want to release them. They are sitting close with the mysterious shadow of the silence, but a good silence, called happiness. It is crystal clear that they belong to each other like a pair of shoes: existence without the other can`t be imagined. He is smiling happily, breathing her sweet perfume and all he wants to do is to stop time to be with the girl he loves more than anything in this colorful world."

The beginning of a story

It was an enormous shopping mall. The warm feeling of Christmas was present in the air. The noisy chatter of school children could be heard from a distance like the sound of victorious soldiers returning from war. It was snowing crazily outside and lots of people were at the mall to pick up lovely presents for their loved ones. The mall attendants were dressed in funny looking Santa Claus costumes and a group of people were singing a cheerless Christmas carol, their voices like a choir of birds singing on a sunny morning.

CLINT EASTWOOD

- BIOGRAFY

Claint Eastwood was born on 31 May 1930, in San Francisco. He is an american film director, actor, producer, compositor and politician. Eastwood has fathered at least seven children by five diferent women and because of this, he has benn described as a 'serial womanizer'.

Despite appearing to smoke in many of his films, Eastwood is a life-long non-smoker, he has been concious of his health and fotness since he was teenager. However, on 21 July 1970 his father died unexpectly of a heat attack at the age of 64.

Eastwood is an audiophile and has had a strong passion for music all his life. He particularly favours jazz and country and western music and is a pianist and conposer. Jazz has played an important role in Eastwood's life from a young age even he has he own Warner Bros Records dristributed imprint Malpaso Records.

- HIS CAREER

He started his career as film actor working in a spaguetti western film. Some films he has worked are Unforgiven, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and For a few dollar more. After work in several films he decided create his own company called 'Malpaso Productions'. Since he created his own company he has been working as film director and producer doing films such as Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino or Hereafter.

Eastwood has recibed some awards for his films. The most important award was The Academy Award for The Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven.

IKER CASILLAS' LIFE

He was born on 20 May in 1981 in Mostoles (Madrid). His father is a civil servant and his mother is a hairdresser.

When he was a child he lived for 4 years in Basque Country, but he is from Madrid.

He has one brother younger than him, called Unai.

He started playing in Real Madrid when he was 8 years old as a goalkeeper.

He debuted in 1998 in “San Mames” (Spanish stadium). In 2002, he played the World Cup in Japan because Cañizares broke his leg. Casillas was 21 years old, he was a baby, but he showed that he will be the bestn in the future.

He won 2 UEFA's cup, 4 Leagues,... and 14 Individuals awards.

At the moment he is the captain of R.Madrid and Spanish team. He won European Cup in 2008 and he won the World Cup last year in South Africa.

At the momenthe lives with Sara Carbonero, a Spanish journalist.

Iker Casillas has two NGO in Africa, he helps poor girls and little children.

He is the best goalkeeper in the world and his heart is very big and good.

One of his dreams is finishing his carreer in his team.

Muhammad Ali

Casius Marcelus Clay was born in 1942 in Kentuky.
He was a famous boxer, he won three World hevyweigh champion and he won the Gold Medal light heavyweigh in 1960 in the Olympics Games in Rome.
He changed his real name after join the nation of islam in 1975. He refused to be conscripted into U.S. army based on his religious beliefs and oposition to Vietnam war.
He was arrested and founded guilty on draft evasion charges,his box licensed was suspend, and he was four years without fighting.

Gregor Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel was an Austrian Augustinian friar and scientist, who gained posthumous fame as the fonder of the new science of genetics for his study of the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants.

He was born 20^th of July of 1822 into an ethnic German family in Heizendorf bei Odrao, now Czech Republic. He had two sisters, one older and other younger than him.

During his childhood, Mendel worked as a gardener, studied beekeeping, and as a young man attended Gymnasium in Opava. Later, from 1840 to 1843, he studied philosophy and physics. In 1843 Mendel began his training as a priest and entered the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno.

Gregor Mendel is known as the father of modern genetics. He studied variation in plants and he conducted his study in the monastery's garden. Between 1856 and 1863 Mendel cultivated and tested some 29,000 pea plants. After Mendel completed his work with peas, he turned to experimenting with honeybees, in order to extend his work to animals. He also described novel plant species.

At first Mendel's work was rejected, and it was not widely accepted until he died, in the early twentieth century. In the 1930s and 1940s the modern synthesis combined Mendelian genetics with Darwin's theory of natural selection.

Mendel died on 6^th of January of 1884 from chronic nephritis.

If Mendel were alive, today it would be his 189^th birthday, as you can see on Google.

Social Media as a Marketing Tool

Have you ever joked, had fun or expressed your ideas and thoughts on the web? You probably think that social networking sites such as facebook, twitter and youtube are spaces where you can join a group, or criticise brands or politics freely. Nevertheless, this is far from the reality. More and more companies use social networking as a marketing tool.

Facebook alone has over 500 million registered users spending on average 700 billion minutes a month viewing this site. In addition, consumers frequenting social networking sites and consuming or contributing to this media, are growing up. With stats like this, marketers couldn't ignore this trend and miss out on an important communication media.

Furthermore, social media marketing has very positive benefits:

• they are relatively inexpensive

• they don't need additional staff

• they are accessible to enable anyone (even private individuals) to publish or access information

However, marketers cleverly execute this kind of marketing because, while we are resistant to marketing in general, we are even more resistant to direct or overt marketing through social media platforms. This is the main reason why nowadays, marketers present themselves as social authorities with credibility. A marketer knows that we will not be receptive to a marketing message in and of itself.

In 2008, a survey reported that the majority (58%) of the respondents most trusted companies or product information coming from "people like me" while in 2010, the majority (64%)switched to preferring their information from industry experts and academics. Why this changing?

In the past, marketers used social media badly. They were asking their employees to take part in a forum, a group or a facebook page to avoid a negative image. The problem was that the employees were hiding the fact that they were working for the brand they were defending.

Once this strategy was discovered, companies started to work to be seen as social authorities with credibility.

What next?

All things considered, companies monitor social as well as traditional media to supply protection to their brand while lots of “social media gurus” like to talk about how social media is all about “joining the conversation” and “listening to the customers.” Social media is just another marketing tool which has the same value as other marketing tools.

'Facebook Depression'

Seeing the above topic for the first time, one might think it is a joke but it isn't. I read in an online article that researchers at Stony Brook university in New york have found that too much Facebook usage can leave you more prone to anxiety and depression, especially if you're a teenager. Therefore, the question is 'does Facebook really cause depression?' Personally, I don't think it does because it's just something people go on for the fun of it. I know a lot of things go on on Facebook but that's not enough to cause depression.
A user on a forum website said, and I quote, "Facebook is what YOU make it. You can choose to have 300 "fake-friends" or 20 wonderful friends". I totally agree with this as Facebook really is what you want it to be.

The final match of Champions league

The result let me down, but It was not surprise anymore

Barca is the best team in the world at the moment.

United did nothing wrong, the problem is that Barca was too perfect.

Even if I will not be in England in next year, I believe that United must get better and claim the

champions league.

When the Cat's Away, the Mice Will Play

A boy named Henry lived with his parents in Florida,he was 19 years old and he is bit naughty and spoilt child.one time his parents went away for an important occasion,while they are away Henry was at home with his nanny.Henry was bored and didn't have any fun.so he tried to make some funny things to scare his neighbourhood.he made a plan to burn a firework and put in their backyard.he was a brave boy to handle fireworks,so he burn a cracker and put it on his neighbour backyard.It result in catching fires and this cause lots of damages.

A Leopard Cannot Change Its Spots

Nick, a 13 year old boy was the only son of his parents. He was a student at a high school and had a group of friends who influenced badly. One day, on his way back from school, he snatched a woman's purse and tried to run but unfortunately for him a Policeman was on patrol in the area so he got caught. He was arrested and charged with an offence and then sent to a prison for young people for a year.

One year later, Nick was released from prison and promised his parents that he had turned over a new leaf and told them that they should let him continue his schooling, which they did. After high school, he went on to study at a university where he joined a gang of thieves. His gang planned to rob a bank and they did but were caught by the police. His parents were really disappointed in him and then realised that truly, a leopard cannot change its spots.

You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks

once a upon a time there was a man called jack. He was almost 70 years old. One day he suddenly decided that he want to learn about technology so he asked his grand son to teach him how to send an email. He thought that if he could learn how to send an email he would easily learn how to use the Internet properly.

After one week of lessons, he finally learned how to send email so the day after he decided to send an email to an old friend. He started his email by telling him that he missed him but after that he started nagging about his life and his wife. He wrote that he was not satisfied with his wife's cook an the way she treated him and after being so catty he finally sent that mail.

However,unfortunately after sending the email he realized instead of his friend's email address he entered his wife's address.

As soon as his wife read the email. She came to him and shouted there will be no food for you anymore. He felt very sheepish and it took almost 1 month for his wife to forgave him. Therefore, he finally accepted that you can not teach an old dog new tricks

An Article FromThe Guardian

Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes in Struggle For Bafta awards
Both characters are known for their ability to solve riddles and prove their companions wrong but only one of them does it with a sonic screw. Now, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who will go up against each other at next month's Bafta TV awards as the stars of both dramas were nominated for best actor prize. Matt smith, who returned as the Doctor will compete with Benedict Cumberbatch, the star of BBC1's retold version of the Sherlock Holmes story. Doctor Who has previously been named best drama by Bafta, but never has it received a nomination for its lead actor.

The nominations were a double reward for Doctor Who's producer, Steven Moffat who is also one of the creators of Sherlock.The show was also nominated for a best drama with a best supporting actor nomination for Martin freeman, who plays Dr. Watson. Moffat tweeted ''Congrats to Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and Matt Smith for their Bafta nominations. Sherlock, with three nominations tied with another BBC drama, The Road To Coronation Street, about the creation of the ITV soap. It is running for best single drama with two of its cast, Jessie Wallace and Lynda Baron, who were both nominated.

Channel 4 drama, Any Human heart also received three nominations including one for its actor, Jim Broadbent but none of them could beat E4's sci-fi hit, Misfits.

BBC1 had the highest number of nominations with 24 followed by channel 4 with 16 and BBC2 with 14. BBC4 had 10 nominations and ITV1 had just 8. Meanwhile, Sky had its highest nominations ever with six across four different channels. The baftas will be shown on BBc1 on 22 May.

An Article from the BBC

 World's Oldest Man, Walter Breuning, Dies In US Aged 114

Breuning died of natural causes in a Montana hospital. He had been in hospital since the beginning of the month with an undisclosed illness.

Breuning was 26 days younger than Besse Cooper of Georgia, USA, who was the world's oldest person at 114.

In an interview last autumn, Breuning said that the secret to his old age was eating just two meals a day, working as long as he could and always embracing change - especially death.

"We're all going to die. Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you're born to die," he said.

Breuning was born on Sept 21, 1896, in Minnesota and spent his early years in South Dakota. That first decade of the 1900s was literally a dark age for his family.

They had no electricity or running water. A bath for young Walter would require his mother to fetch water from the well outside and heat it on the coal-burning stove.
  

GLOSSARY

Natural causes- Something happening naturally 

Spokesman-noun ,a person who makes statements on behalf of a group: 

Retirement -noun the action or fact of leaving one's job and ceasing to work:

Undisclosed -adjective, it is secret

Illness -a disease of the body or mind

Embrace -to accept something enthusiastically

Secret -a piece of information that is only known by one person or a few people and should not be told to others

Afraid- feeling of fear, or feeling worry about the possible results of a particular situation

Decade- a period of ten years, especially a period such as 1860 to 1869, or 1990 to 1999

Dark Age -the period of time in the middle ages

Fetch-to go to another place to get something or someone and bring them back

Well-A deep hole or shaft sunk into the earth to obtain water, oil, gas, or brine.

Coal-burning stove-A Stove that runs on coal

An Article from The Metro

Future Queen Seen In Bean

After toilet seats, teabags and baby bibs, Kate Middleton probably thought she had seen her face just about everywhere.

But in a sign that royal wedding hysteria may have reached fever pitch, the future Queen’s visage has now appeared on- a jelly bean.

Two weeks before Kate walks down the aisle to marry Prince William, trainee accountant Wesley Hosie, of Taunton, Somerset, is convinced he can see the bride-to-be staring back at him from the yellow sweet. Mr Hosie, 25, ‘spotted’ the 29-year-old while he tucked into a 700g jar from The Jelly Bean Factory with his girlfriend Jessica White, 24.

Kate’s facial features, long hair and even smile are visible in the yellow sweet’s blotches. Apparently.

“As Jessica opened the jar, I saw her immediately,” said Mr Hosie. “She was literally staring back at me.”

Richard Cullen, joint manager of The Jelly Bean Factory in Dublin, said: “This sounds truly incredible, I would have to see the bean myself to believe it.

"All of our beans are handmade and this looks like one of our red speckled mango beans, the natural speckles are unique to each and every jelly bean due to the handmade process.’

The couple now plan to sell the “lucky” bean on eBay and hope to pocket as much as £500. Mr Hosie said: “Given that the royal wedding is only a few weeks away, we hope to make a few pounds out of it by selling it on the internet to a collector.”

You might think even the keenest royal enthusiast would be wary of parting with hard-earned cash to secure the bean.

GLOSSARY

Tucking into: starting to eat

bib: a cover made of cloth which is worn by children when eating to ptotect their clothes

hysteria: extreme exitment which can not be controled

fever pitch: a state of very strong emotion

visage: the face

jelly bean: a small sweet in the shape of bean which is soft in the middle and covered with hard sugar

walk down the aisle: to get married in church

bride-to-be: a woman who is going to get married soon

spotted:the person who has noticed somthing

visible:able to be seen

blotches: a mark that is not regular in shape

literally: used to emphesize what you are saying

speckled: covered with dots

to pocket: to earn

keen:very intrested, eager or wanting to do something very much

royal enthusiast: aperson who is very interested in and involved with royal family

wary: not completely certion or trusting something

parting with hard-earned cash: to give up the money that you have worked hard for it

An Article from The Sun

Manchester United Player, Paul Scholes Says Manchester City Are Not Their Main Rivals

Manchester United's veteran midfielder Paul Scholes believes that the FA Cup semi-final opponents Manchester City are not his club's main rivals.

The two teams meet on Saturday at Wembley with United aiming to win the Premier League, the FA Cup and the Champions League this season.

City, on the other hand, have only the FA Cup to play for.

"When they are fourth or fifth [in the league], I don't think they can be classed as a main rival," said Scholes.

"Our main rivals are obviously Arsenal and Chelsea. I think City are just a rival because of where they are [geographically] and Liverpool the same."

City will have to beat United without injured skipper Carlos Tevez as they attempt to win their first major trophy since the 1976 League Cup but Sir Alex Ferguson's team go into this encounter missing the suspended Wayne Rooney.

One of those defeats was in the Premier League last season where Scholes' injury-time header at Eastlands gifted United a crushing 1-0 victory.

The 36-year-old midfielder, who has still to decide whether he will retire at the end of this season, said that goal was "one of the best things I have ever done".

And he is under no illusions as to the significance of Saturday's tie.

"It's an FA Cup semi-final at Wembley, it's massive, there will be 30,000 fans from each side... it's the biggest game we've had against City for a while. Whoever loses will be devastated," added Scholes.

Scholes has long been lauded as England's greatest midfielder by many of the world's best players but he added that he would wait until the end of the season before making a decision about his future.

"I really don't know what I am going to do yet," he said. "I've got these games to think about now and I will decide from there.

"People always say you should play as long as you can but there comes a time when you can't physically do it. I'm wary of that. I just want to make sure it is done at the right time."

GLOSSARY
Veteran- A person who has a long experience in a particular field.

Rival- A person commpeting for the same goal as another.

Skipper- the captain of a team.

Encounter- a meeting between a team or a group of people

Massive - large, big.

Devastated - amazed by something.

Midfielder - a football player active in the midfield.

FA cup- an annual knockout competition for a silver trophy, open to all member teams of the Football Association

opponent- a person or group of people who are in an opposing side in a game.

Wembley- a football stadium in London

Premier league-The premier league is an English professional league for association football clubs.

Champions league - A football league in which teams around Europe take part in.

Lauded - Praised.

Retire- To withdraw from active football.

Fans- A follower or admirer of a sport.

Wary - Watchful.