Showing posts with label #news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #news. Show all posts

10 March 2015

Dance the whole night!

In one image he was dancing enthusiastically and in the other he was bowing head, ashamed, after the bullies laughed at him "spotted this specimen trying to dance the other week". Those pictures were spotted by Cassandra Fairbanks, from California, on 4chan. She then tweeted them on Thursday, asking help to identify the man, "Anyone know this man or who posted this? There's a huge group of ladies in LA who would like to do something special". On Friday, he was successfully identified as Sean from London and he has been sent VIP invite to dance party in LA. In a later tweet, Ms. Fairbanks said of her group of 1727 women: "We would like to fly him to LA for a VIP dance party with the coolest and most awesome ladies in LA, please help...".Musical superstars like Pharrell Williams, Moby and Andrew W.K have all lent their support to the Londoner now know as Dancing Man. Pharrel asked Cassandra to keep him informed about the party and tweeted to Sean: "Never be ashamed of yourself". He says he'll pay the party. The same warm sentiment was offered by Moby (Richard Melville Hall) who offered his DJ services for free.

No one should ever be ashamed of what they are and how they are. This man is not a professional dancer, neither are the guys that posted the pictures and that horrible comment, the ones that laughed at him because he was dancing and enjoying the concert he was at. No one is perfect, everybody, everyone of us, have our defaults, we shouldn't be ashamed of them, especially when this man, Sean, was just dancing! It's seems that people still don't understand that words hurt, sometimes more than physical pain. Bullying is a huge problem now a days, a lot more now with all the social networks. A lot of people kill themselves because they're being bullied, mocked and insulted, and why? because they are themselves, because of their bodies, because of their religion or their sexuality and, the one that I'll never understand, because the ones who do it consider themselves "normal" but nobody is "normal". What's "normal" in the first place? Everyone is different!
What Cassandra Fairbanks did is really kind, there should be more people like her. All of this have a happy ending thanks to her and all the people that helped her. Sean shouldn't be ashamed of how he dances, nobody should be because the ones that make others feel bad, they aren't worth it and they should be ashamed of doing this. 

6 March 2015

Expensive parties

Six fraternities of the University of Michigan celebrated a party at a ski resort which caused a bill damage of $500.000. At the beginning it was estimated $75.000 damage but after a full assessment of the 45 rooms and connecting hallway plus the loss of revenue and damage to the brand's reputation has seen the price multiply by six. Now, the fraternity that originally apologized, Sigma Alpha Mu, don't want to pay the bill, according to Batty Owens, general manager of Treetops in Gaylord.

Owens told MLive: "The destruction done to Treetops Resort by University of Michigan fraternity students in mid-January is now near or beyond $430.000."
While an investigation is ongoing, the university said that they expect the students who are responsible to pay the bill to the Treetops for the damages.
Owens also called on Sigma Delta Tau to contribute to the payment, which includes cleaning fees.

It turns out that members of other organizations from the Ann Arbor, Michigan school did a similar case at an another hotel the same weekend. The damage done to Boyne Highlands resort is also estimated to be worth tens of thousands. Since then the six fraternities implicated in the two parties have been suspended by their national organization while the university and police investigate the incidents.

Sigma Alpha Mu President, Joshua Kaplan said his members are embarrassed and ashamed of the behaviour of some members and that his fraternity accepts full responsibility and will be working with the management of the resort to pay for all damages and cleaning costs. "This behaviour is inconsistent with the values, policies and practices of this organization" said Kaplan. "We will work within our own organization and with university officials to hold those who are responsible accountable for their actions" he commented.

Suspension by their national organization means that the members of the fraternities involved may continue to live in their campuses house but can not participate in social activities, including parties or representing their organization at university functions.


What all those students did is really inappropriate and, excuse me for the language, really stupid. I agree that when you're at a party you just enjoy and if you have been drinking and are drunk you don't think in the consequences of your acts. But I don't know why and how people can break things, that aren't even theirs, during a party. I mean, when you are at a party you drink, dance, play and talk with people but you don't break things. Even more when you are in a public place, a hotel where you have to pay for  the rooms and the time you stay there, I would understand if maybe during the party something fragile breaks but the whole room, they even break the ceiling! I totally agree that the hotels want to receive money for the damages, it's normal. If I was the one judging that case I would make the fraternities pay, help at the reparations and they wouldn't be able to participate at any university activity.

3 March 2015

Do people have moral?

There is an Instagram account, called "The murder mall", that mocks eccentric and homeless people. The account publishes pictures of people at the Surry Hills Shopping Village in inner city Sydney accompanied by cruel captions. One of the worst thing is that almost 2000 people follow the account which makes fun at unfortunate people as overweight and homeless people, police officers and anyone being "comic" to the owner and contributors of the account.
When this article was published there were 270 posted pictures on the account and a lot of Instagram users commented their disgust to the account commenting pictures or tweeting about it on Twitter.
The account had been reported and deleted but if you put "#murdermall" on Instagram you can see that people still use the hashtag posting inappropriate pictures of unfortunate people.


I'm totally shocked about this account, it's just so disgusting how people can laugh at unfortunate people and the fact that the account had almost 2000 followers! How can people do that? Don't they have a moral? I think that's just another problem of the "internet generation", people hide behind their computers and phones screen an make fun of other people that they don't always know, like in this case, the majority of the time people who use internet and social networks to make fun and insult people are the ones who have some kind of problem in their life, above all teenagers and young adults. It's a good thing that the account had been deleted but the fact that people still use the hashtag makes me sick. Unfortunately, there is a lot more of this kind of account, not only on Instagram but also on Facebook and Twitter, but little by little peoples mind start to change and see that these accounts are not appropriate.

23 February 2015

Racist director of human rights charity

Last week a group of Chelsea supporters was involved in an allegedly racist incident on the Paris Metro, one of the men, Richard Barklie, 50 years old, from Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland was a former police officer and human rights activist.

Since the incident Mr. Barklie has been suspended by the Wave Trauma Centre in Belfast where he helped victims of the Northern Irish troubles. Mr. Barklie is one of the three men whose images were released by Scotland Yard as part of an investigation into a group of supporters who allegedly pushed a black man, Souleymane Sylla, off the train and singed a racist song in Paris, France.
The incident happened before of Chelsea’s Champions League clash with Paris Saint-Germain, which ended 1-1.

Mr.Barklie admitted through his lawyer his involvement in the incident that resulted in Souleymane Sylla being unable to enter part of the train. He said he had an account he wanted to provide to the police that would explain the “context and circumstances”.

Mr. Barklie denied singing any racist songs, he said he travelled to the game alone, he insisted he did not know any of the other individuals captured on the video of the incident and said he has never been part of any “group or faction” of Chelsea fans.

The Wave Trauma Centre said it had suspended a part-time worker pending further investigation into the Paris incident. “As this matter is subject an investigation by the Metropolitan Police it would not be appropriate to comments further at this stage” said a spokesman for the charity.

The three men had now been identified and the force was liaising with the French authorities, none of them have been arrested though. A police spokesman said the force cannot arrest people for offences which happen outside the UK but a number of people have now been spoken to in relation to the incident. Five people have so far been suspended from Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge ground following investigations into the incident. The club has reiterated its promise to ban for life anyone proved to have been involved in the altercation and is helping police in the UK and Paris. Jose Mourinho, Chelsea manager, said the club are “appalled” by the racial abuse, adding that owner Roman Abramovich is also “disgusted”.

Meanwhile, police are seeking a gang of men, believed to be Chelsea fans, who were heard shouting racist chants at London St. Pancras station on Wednesday evening.

15 February 2015

Worst dressed at the Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards is the music's biggest night of the year, all the eyes were on the red carped at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles last 8th February for the 57th Grammy Awards.
All these kinds of events are perfect for designers to show their creations and the best of it, is that the creations are worn by celebrities. Unfortunately for some celebrities things don't go well. For example Madonna, Rihanna and Kaya Jones this year.

Madonna wore a disastrous Givenchy burlesque get-up, complete with corset, leather gloves, fishnet stockings and thigh-high boots. At one point she even turned from the cameras and lifted her skirt up flash her thong-clad derriere. (eww!) 

Rihanna didn't looked gross, she resembled a giant cupcake when she arrived in a frothy lurid pink Giambattista Vali creation.

The ex Pussycat Doll star, Kaya Jones, made sure she stood out with her ruffled black gown, which was hitched up to just below the knee, and the yards of fabric that trailed behind it.

These are just some example, there more celebrities who nobody knows how they could wore the dresses they were wearing. I think that celebrities could try and dress better and stop wearing what they wear to get attention. Madonna is now 56 years old, I don't think what she wore was really acceptable. Rihanna looked cute with that dress but I don't think it's glamorous enough for the event or another event, it doesn't have a good form or anything. And then, Kaya Jones, that dress is just ugly, there is too much froufrou on the skirt, there is too much details on the top and the tail... just ugly. 

3 February 2015

Not really innocent

Before to start reading I think you should watch the trailer of the film, it might help you to understand the article.



"I don't want my family to see it.": Dakota Johnson says hot scenes in Fifty Shades of Grey are "inappropriate" for her parents.

There are a lot of things we don't share with our parents, it's totally normal. For Dakota Johnson, on of those things is her hot scenes in the highly anticipated Fifty Shades of Grey. She confessed to Glamour magazine: " I don't want my family to see it, because it's inappropriate. Or my brother's friends that I grew up with. Also there's a part of me that's like, I don't want anyone to see this movie - just kidding."

Dakota's co-star, Jamie Dornan, as Christian Grey, also thinks that there are a few people that should perhaps give it a miss too. He admitted that he probably won't be too comfortable when his daughter, now one year old, will be older. "When my daughter's 18, I'm not going to be going, "You've gotta watch Daddy in Fifty Shades of Grey", but there will be greater things to protect her from than dad's ass on the big screen". He said joking.

In order to stay loyal to the story, Sam Taylor-Johnson, the director of the film, did extensive research into the world of BDSM. She recently revealed that she consulted a professional dominatrix for the film and she said she "learned a lot" from her.
She told The Independent: "The sex scenes are pretty intense, so I'm sure people are going to feel aroused - but I've seen them so many times that I tend to forget."

EL James, the author of the trilogy, has reportedly sold over 100 million  copies of the books in the whole world and it has been translated into more than 50 languages. The film is one of the most highly anticipated films of the year, with the trailer having already been watched a massive 45 million times on YouTube. The movie will be at the cinemas on Valentine's day in the majority of the world.

I would be lying if I said that I won't go to the cinema to watch it, but after reading stuff about it I even would go just to watch people's faces, to see how they react, above all men's faces, I'm sure it would be hilarious. 

8 March 2014

Lottie's experience

An anorexic girl was suspended from a private school in case she started 'copycat' cases.


Lottie's mother said: "Without a doubt one of the main reasons Lottie wasn't allowed back to school was because she was someone who lots of people looked up to. In the head teacher's eyes, she may well have inspired copycat disorders". "She became obsessed with her weight and appearance. She would look at pictures of celebrities in magazines and on the internet and was convinced she was fat and ugly."

Lottie Twiselton, 16 years old, has spent the last two years fighting with the eating disorder- one of this years in the hospital. But, when she recover and was ready to rejoin her classmates at the Northamption High School, they told her, her inclusion "would be too disruptive".


Lottie left school to go to London in a specialist clinic after she developed that disorder at the age of 14.


When she could leave the hospital she hoped to go back to school but school said it didn't want her to return until she was well enough.
Now, Lottie is in a new school, Quinton House School, in Upton. The fact that she was rejected from her school was devastating. She said: "I was very upset about it. I almost died and without the support of my friends I would not have pulled trough". "I was completely ready to go back and be with them and just get back to normal but I was told the school weren't able to have me back. It would have given me such a boost to my progress".

Lottie's father, Robert, has also attacked the school. He said: "The school's response to Lottie coming back was pretty poor. People suffering from anorexia are encouraged to work towards a particular goal and Lottie was working towards getting back into school and to be with her friends. This was all taken away from her when the head teacher made it clear she was not welcome back. Lottie has shown remarkable courage and determination to get this point. Anorexia, particularly amongst teenage girls is not as uncommon as people think and schools need to be aware of that."
He was worried about his daughter's life.
"At its worst, we thought this might be it for Lottie. She needed to be forcibly fed through a tube and she went from a happy, healthy teenager to nothing at all. Claire and I divorced a few years ago and we have considered whether this had an impact on Lottie."

School answered: "The school responded to say that they were very keen to support Lottie’s integration but remained of the view that it would be preferable to wait until Lottie was well enough to return on a full-time basis.  The health and well being of our pupils is at the heart of everything we do... The professional view of the head and her team was that an interrupted part-time programme in a crucial year would not be in the interests of Lottie’s welfare or education. To say that Lottie was excluded is simply not true as is the assertion we were concerned about copycat issues. In school our approach is very pro-active and open in talking about and raising awareness of such issues through a variety of means including PSHCE lessons, tutorial support, extra-curricular sessions where guest speakers address the girls and parent talks/workshops, as well as having a full time nurse and the services of a school counsellor.'

I think that Lottie is very courageous. However, how the school has reacted is very sad because, Lottie recovered and school administration rejected her just to not have any problems and that's not correct.


7 March 2014

Welcome Eric!

Simon Cowell admits that he loves to be a father "I was born to be a dad...it would be cool to have two or three!"

The girlfriend of the 54-year-old star, Lauren Silverman, gave birth to their first child, a little boy called Eric, last month. He said that he always believed that he will be a good father. Eric was born on February 14 in New York.
The music mogul was reduced to tears when he saw his son for the first time.
He said: 'I actually said to Lauren beforehand, "What if I like the dogs more than him?" and she said, "You're gonna be absolutely fine," and then literally within seconds of him being born, I got it!'
The couple named their baby boy Eric, like Simon's late father and went back to England to meet Simon's mother Julie for the first time. Simon said about his mother: "I think she's told the whole village...she's really excited. I look at him, Eric, and I think of my dad all the time, so it's a really good thing".
Meanwhile, Simon said that they are thinking about having more children as he would like little Eric to have a brother or a sister to play with.
He said: "I wouldn't rule out (more children). Well, I got my dogs, and I can't imagine just one of them...I had a brother when I was younger, so I kind of thing it's cool to have two or three...two".


27 February 2014

Relationship between a teacher and a student

A teacher spend a night with one of her students in his bed.


Bernadette Smith,35 years old, spent a night in a student's bed, Gary Ralston 17 years old, wearing only her jeans and her bra
She thought she became crazy, because she was obsessed with the young boy. That obsession cost the married woman her job and reputation.

Gary said that Smith was his favourite teacher. He said: "I was thinking I was quite lucky. A lot of the boys fancied her. I couldn't believe she was with me."

The mother of three was placed under supervision order. They hadn't sexual relation, that saved her from a jail sentence.

"When I started year six, Bernadette was no longer my teacher, but we'd pass each other in the corridor, say hello and smile." "I walked in and as soon as I sat down she said, "Ever since we've been back at school and I've seen you around, I've been realising I have feelings for you", he said.

They drove to a park in Falkirk, Scotland, and they had a walk, but, when they come back to the car, Smith kissed him passionately.
Gary said that he was worried for his teacher's job and family but she said he didn't have to be worried about it.
The father of the young boy was informed but the grandmother decided to call Bannockburn High School and Smith was immediately suspended.

Gary said: ‘We got ready for bed and I felt nervous. I got into bed with my boxers on. She took off her top, but kept her bra and jeans on, and slid in beside me. We cuddled and talked – nothing else happened.’
His father Richard Ralston, 42, said: ‘I wasn't pleased about what happened, but you’re an adult at 16 in Scotland so I didn't want to interfere too much. I want Gary to make decisions and learn from any mistakes.’

Prosecutor said that Smith said that she loved the boy and they both wanted to be together. She admitted kissing Gary and staying the night with him.

She was placed under a supervision for two years and will remain on the sex offenders' register also for two years. She was suspended by the General Teaching Council for Scotland and separated from her husband.

I think relations between teachers and students have a limit. Even if they hadn't sexual relations they passed this limit. The boy is considered an adult so that's good for the teacher, she doesn't have to go to the prison. However, I think authorities made good decisions.