NEW ! MORE MACHINES.

The government's attempt to reduce childhood obesity is moving from the school cafeteria to the vending machines.

With students eating 19 percent to 50 percent of their daily food at school, the administration says it wants to ensure that what they eat contributes to good health and smaller waistlines.

Representatives of the food and beverage industries argue that many of their products contribute to good nutrition and should not be banned.

Nutritionists say that school vending machines stocked with potato chips, cookies and sugary soft drinks contribute to childhood obesity, which has more than tripled in the past 30 years.

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NEW ! GAY COUPLES

Gay couples will finally win the right to marry, Downing Street insisted last night, despite an escalating campaign of opposition led by a former Archbishop of Canterbury and some Conservative MPs.

Lord Carey provoked an angry backlash from gay couples and campaigners as he denounced the move as a "hostile strike" on the traditional view of marriage.

Tory right-wingers gave their backing to a new pressure group, Coalition for Marriage, which accused the Government of having no mandate for the move – and claimed the public was on its side.

The Home Office begins a consultation next month on how gay couples can be given the legal right to marry in a civil setting such as a register office. Lynne Featherstone, the Equalities Minister, told The Independent: "This Government is promoting a fair society where people respect each other.

http://www.independent.co.uk/

NEVERLAND...

This film talks about a man who writes plays and who become a friend of a family. This family is a mother and four children who are poor. To achieve the happiness of this family, he decides to write a play for young children in which the protagonists are these four children. The play called Peter Pan. Children's mother became ill and died. But just before she died, he represented the work in this family's home.

This movie is like a dream that any child would live. I don't say that because the mother is dead, no. I say that for being able to dive into another world by the magic of a play. In this film, Johnny Depp manages to make any story becomes a true story but, at the same time totally invented and dreamed. It's like a real dream.

Where will your imagination take you ?

DESCRIPTION: MY MOTHER !

My mother's name is Martine and she is the most important person for me in the world. She gave me life so I will always be in dept with her. But now I want to describe her, especially her character.

First, she is a short person (shorter than me) but for me, she is the most beautiful mother. I really like the way she dresses and when I'll have her age, I want to dress like her.

Now, her character. She's very special. She just understands things that she wants to understand. She's a person who only believes in things that she wants to and that's her big problem. I'm not the girl she wants to have because I'm so different. She has a very strong character like me.

I really hate when she gets angry with me, because she talks a lot and doesn't let me say anything. But she is my mother and I love her !

NEW ! "THERE'S NO EXCUSE !"

This is a new from http://www.portsmouth.co.uk.

Mountains of mess being dumped on our streets and beauty spots are costing council's thousands to clean up.

In Gosport, there were 595 reports of fly-tipping in the last 12 months compared to 840 reports the year before.

Fareham saw 404 reported incidents, down from 563, which coast taxpayers around 22,000 pounds to clean up.

Cllr Graham Burgess, the clairman of Gosports Borough Council's community board, said "Fly-tipping is on the decrease in Gosport because people give us information and it's because of that we are able to respond so quickly.

BRAILLE

Braille system is a method that is used by people who are visually impaired to read and write. It was the first digital form of writing. It's derived from the Latin alphabet.

Braille was invented in 1825 by Louis Braille, a blind Frenchman. Each Braille character is made up of six dot positions, arranged in a rectangle containing two columns of three dots each.

The Braille system was based on a method of communication originally developed by Charles Barbier in response to Napoleon's demand for a code that soldiers could use to communicate silently and without light at night called night writing.

FRANKENSTEIN !

Victor Frankenstein is a man who was born in Geneva. He always been interested about scientific things so he decided to study it. He was a very good student until he decided to create a monster. Well, he didn't know that this monster will kill people. The monster asks to Victor to create a woman monster for love her but Victor didn't accepted. He wouldn't do anything wrong.

So, the monster started to kill all his family and, in his wedding night, Victor was searching the monster but he was faster and he killed his wife, Elizabeth.

From this day, Victor passed months looking for the monster and one day, the boat found him. He explain all the story to the captain and then, he died.

JAMAICA

This is Lisa's and I presentation about Jamaica. We explain a little about everything like situation, religion, policy, music, food, animals, history,... We enjoyed a lot doing this work because it was a really pleasure for us to share with our friend about our favourite country or island !

Jamaica

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A PIECE OF FREEDOM

Bob Marley's real name is Robert Nesta Marley Drum and he was born on 6th February of 1945 in Nine Mile (Rhoden Hall, Saint Ann Parish), a small village in the north of Jamaica.

His father was Norval Sinclair Marley. He was a captain in the Royal Marines.

His mother is Cedella Booker, an Afro-Jamaican who was 18 years old when Bob Marley borned.

In 1963, Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso and Cherry Smith formed a ska and rocksteady group called "The Teenagers". They later changed their name to "The Wailing Rudeboys", then to "The Wailing Wailers" and finally "The Wailers".

Though raised in the Catholic Tradition, Marley became captivated by Rastafarian beliefs in the 1960s, when away from his mother's influence.

In 1972, the Wailers entered into an ill-fated with CBS Records and embarked on a tour with American soul singer Johnny Nash.

Bob Marley was a member of the Rastafarian movement, whose culture was a key element in the development of reggae.

He died in 1981 after fighting the cancer without success for eight months.

CRASH TEST DUMMIES - MMM MMM MMM MMM

This is a really good song that talks about children who don't like their life and who aren't happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIbcqgXh5-4

LYRICS AND TRADUCTION:

Once there was this kid who / HABÍA UNA VEZ UN NIÑO QUE
Got into an accident and couldn't come to school / TUVO UN ACCIDENTE Y NO PUDO IR A LA ESCUELA
But when he finally came back / PERO CUANDO FINALMENTE VOLVIÓ
His hair had turned from black into bright white / SU PELO HABÍA CAMBIADO DE UN NEGRO A UN BLANCO BRILLANTE.
He said that it was from when / ÉL DIJO QUE FUE DESDE CUANDO
The car had smashed him so hard / EL COCHE CHOCÓ TAN FUERTE.

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Once there was this girl who / HABÍA UNA VEZ UNA NIÑA QUE
Wouldn't go and change with the girls in the change room / NO QUERÍA CAMBIARSE CON LAS CHICAS EN EL VESTUARIO
But when they finally made her / PERO CUANDO ELLAS LA OBLIGARON AL FIN
They saw birthmarks all over her body / VIERON MARCAS DE NACIMIENTO POR TODO SU CUERPO.
She couldn't quite explain it / ELLA NO PODÍA EXPLICARLO EXACTAMENTE
They'd always just been there / SIEMPRE ESTUVIERON AHÍ.

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But both the girl and boy were glad / PERO TANTO LA CHICA COMO EL CHICO ERAN AGRADECIDOS
Cause one kid had it worse than that / PORQUÉ UN CHICO LO TENÍA PEOR QUE ELLOS.

Cause then there was this boy whose / PORQUÉ ENTONCES ESTABA ESTE CHICO CUYOS
Parents made him come directly home right after school / PADRES LE HACÍAN VOLVER DIRECTAMENTE A CASA DESPUÉS DE CLASE
And when they went to their church / Y CUANDO ELLOS IBAN A SU IGLESIA
They shook and lurched all over the church floor / SE SACUDÍAN Y TAMBALEABAN POR EL SUELO DE LA IGLESIA.
He couldn't quite explain it / ÉL NO PODÍA EXPLICARLO EXACTAMENTE
They'd always just gone there / ELLOS SIEMPRE IRÍAN ALLÍ.

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