jueves, 4 de junio de 2009

NEWS:

NEW 3.
Nintendo's veteran games developer Shigeru Miyamoto has told the BBC that the firm is "not worried at all" by Microsoft and Sony's new controllers.
The Japanese firm has enjoyed huge success with its Wii console, in large part due to its motion control system.
At the E3 games show in Los Angeles, both Microsoft and Sony have shown off new control systems which aim to make gaming more accessible.
Mr Miyamoto said Nintendo was flattered by the approach taken by the firms.
He told BBC News: "The fact that both of those companies are looking at getting the gamer off the couch, taking advantage of motion control, and getting them to control the game by moving their body shows that they have looked at what we have done with Wii.
"And now they are moving in the same direction. To that end we are very flattered, he said.
While both the Sony and Microsoft showcases at E3 have featured new technology and techniques for motion controllers, Nintendo's event was decidedly low key.

Nintendo have announced a new Super Mario game
The only "new technology" on offer was a modification to the Wii controller, called the Wii Motion Plus, which was announced last year, and a pulse measuring device called Wii Vitality Sensor, although that is still in the early stages of development.
"Just as we enable you to see the centre of your body balance with Wii fit, the Wii Vitality Sensor enables you to see the information related to the inner world of your body," said Nintendo's chief, Satoru Iwata, at the event.

NEWS.

NEW 2:

A 25-year-old Somali pirate has told the BBC's Mohamed Olad Hassan by telephone from the notorious den of Harardhere in central Somalia why he became a sea bandit. Dahir Mohamed Hayeysi says he and his big-spending accomplices are seen by many as heroes.
I used to be a fisherman with a poor family that depended only on fishing.
The first day joining the pirates came into my mind was in 2006.
A group of our villagers, mainly fishermen I knew, were arming themselves.

NEWS:


NEW 1:

President Barack Obama has said the "cycle of suspicion and discord" between the United States and the Muslim world must end.
In a keynote speech in Cairo, Mr Obama called for a "new beginning" in ties.
He admitted there had been "years of distrust" and said both sides needed to make a "sustained effort... to respect one another and seek common ground".
Mr Obama said the US bond with Israel was unbreakable but described the Palestinians' plight as "intolerable".
The president made a number of references to the Koran and called on all faiths to live together in peace.
He received a standing ovation at the end of his speech at Cairo University.
White House officials had said the speech was intended to start a process to "re-energise the dialogue with the Muslim world".


FILM SUMMARY:THE OTHERS


The scene is set in the British Crown Dependency of Jersey, in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Grace Stewart is a Catholic mother, who lives with her two small children in a remote country house. The children, Anne and Nicholas, have an uncommon disease characterized by photosensitivity (a special feature on the DVD indicates the disease is xeroderma pigmentosum), so their lives are structured around a series of complex rules designed to protect them from inadvertent exposure to sunlight.
The new arrival of three servants at the house (an aging
nanny and servant named Mrs. Bertha Mills, an elderly gardener named Mr. Edmund Tuttle, and a young mute girl named Lydia) coincides with a number of odd events, and Grace begins to fear that they are not alone. Anne draws pictures of four people — a man, a woman, a boy called Victor and a scary old woman whom she says she has seen in the house. A piano is heard from inside a locked room when no one is inside. Every time Grace enters and exits the room the door closes, but while she tries to figure out why, the door slams in her face knocking her to the floor. Grace tries hunting down the "intruders" with a shotgun but cannot find them. She scolds her daughter for nonsense about ghosts until she hears them herself. Eventually convincing herself that something unholy is in the house, she runs out in the fog to get the local priest to bless the house. Meanwhile, the servants, led by Mrs. Mills, are clearly up to something of their own. The gardener buries three gravestones under autumn leaves, and Mrs. Mills listens faithfully to Anne's allegations against her mother.
Out in the forest, Grace loses herself in the heavy fog, but miraculously discovers her husband Charles, whom she thought had been killed in the war and brings him back to the house. Charles is distant during the one day he spends in the house, and Mrs. Mills is heard telling Mr. Tuttle "I do not think he knows where he is." Grace later sees the old woman from Anne's drawing dressed up like her daughter. Grace says "You are not my daughter!" and attacks her. However, she finds that she has actually attacked her daughter instead. Anne refuses to be near her mother after this event, while Grace swears she saw the old woman. Mrs. Mills tells Anne that she too has seen the people but they cannot yet tell the mother because Grace will not accept what she is not ready for. Charles is stunned when Anne tells him the things her mother did to her. Charles says he must leave for the front and disappears again. After Charles leaves, Anne continues to see things, including Victor's whole family and the old woman. Grace breaks down to Mrs. Mills, who claims that "sometimes the world of the dead gets mixed up with the world of the living". The two women also find and examine a 'book of the dead,' which shows
mourning portraits taken in the 19th century of recently deceased corpses.One morning, Grace wakes to the children's screams: all of the curtains in the house have disappeared, as Anne had said they might earlier in the movie. When the servants refuse to help look for them, Grace realizes that they are somehow involved. Hiding the children from the light, she banishes the servants from the house.
That night, Anne and Nicholas sneak out of the house to find their father, and stumble across the hidden graves. They find that the graves belong to the servants. At the same time, Grace goes to the servants' quarters and finds a photograph from the book of the dead and is horrified to see that it is of the three servants. The servants appear and give chase to the children, who make it back into the house just as Grace emerges to hold off the servants with a shotgun. The children run upstairs where they hide, but are found by the strange old woman. Downstairs, the servants continue talking to Grace, telling her that they have to learn to live together. She begins to understand what they mean. Upstairs, Anne and Nicholas discover the old woman is acting as a
medium in a séance with Victor's parents. It is then that they learn the awful truth: the old woman is not the one who is a ghost; the ghosts are Anne, Nicholas and their mother. Grace loses her temper and supernaturally attacks the visitors. This sequence is quickly intercut with scenes from both Grace's viewpoint and the family's. For example, when Grace is shown shaking the table in anger, it appears in the next shot that the table is shaking on its own.
The truth is finally clear to Grace and the audience: She breaks down with the children and remembers what happened just before the arrival of their new servants; yearning for the company of her missing husband and increasingly frustrated by her children, she went insane, smothered them both with a pillow and then, realizing what she had done, shot herself. When she awoke, she assumed that God had granted her family a
miracle. Grace and the children realize that Charles is also dead, but he was not aware of this fact. Mrs. Mills appears and informs Grace that they will learn to get along, and sometimes they won't even notice the living people who inhabit their house. Outside, Victor's family — less than happy with their haunted house — pack up and move out. From the window, Grace and her children watch as they drive away. Despite her earlier loathing of the house, referring to it as a prison, Grace ends the film with the line; "No one can make us leave this house." and disappears with her children in her arms.

OPINION ESSAY


I agree with te idea that we have almost learnt to respect our world because we will destroy our world with our own hands.The great majority of people think that the government find solutions to stop the world's destruction,but I think that if everyone thinks the same way,nobody does anythink ,the worls will be destroyed,but I also think if all the people think that is a one more person,finally every person help to save the world.In conclusion,if we don't help,the worls will be destroyed in a very short time.

SOCIAL ESSAY**

martes, 2 de junio de 2009