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The Weekly What

Obama gets shot

Oh don’t get scared about it, it was just a false alarm, but indeed, someone was planning to shoot the American president. A 20 year old man named Joaquín updated a Facebook status saying he was going to kill Barack Obama and upload a Youtube video doing it. Fortunately the guy who updated this under the name of “Jay Valor” was arrested; he was liberated thou (paying a punishment of 70k dollars), for there were no ways to prove he could take his plan into action. 

Last Friday night…

Ashley Long, a 14 year old American girl, died last weekend in Eagle Point (Oregon) due to a very, very unfamiliar reason: inhaling helium. The night she died she lied to her parents saying she was going to go to a sleepover at a friend’s house, and instead she went to a party with alcohol, drugs and helium. Witnesses affirm that she didn’t want to play with it, but they were pushing her to do so; her girlfriends told her it wouldn’t hurt and that she was going to be ok. This tragic accident even though it’s very unlikely to happen, was caused because the gas gets into the blood in bubbles and impedes the blood to get to the brain, which causes an infarct. This is an example of the consequences of peer pressure (group pressure).

I wanna be like you!

All of us, even if we watched or not the Oscars, know about the dress Angelina Jolie wore: a black strapless dress with a cleavage on the right leg. Isn’t it familiar to some of you? Not happy with taking Brad away for Aniston, SHE WANTED TO STEAL HER LOOK TOO! Two years ago, in the Globe Awards, Jennifer Aniston almost the exact same dress as the one Angelina wore last Sunday.   But that’s not all; Jolie didn’t have the enough glamour to wear the designer’s dress, since she was exaggerating her moves and poses to show her leg too much. This, besides the fact that for most of us consider Aniston is friendlier than Jolie, has made the critics go on her favor.

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The Drums


This indie pop band from Brooklyn has everything indie pop really is: catchy lyrics and music. Formed in 2008, this band launched their first EP in 2009: Summertime! and it quickly became popular in UK, with their beach, romantic, and nostalgic tunes.

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"Perfect Chemistry" by Simone Elkeles

Brittany Ellis has everything in life; high social class, school reputation, good grades, a perfect boyfriend.  Everything turns upside down when she meets Alex Fuentes, a Latino Blood gang member; he lives in the outer streets from the city.  For his misfortune, Alex has to make team with Brittany in chemistry class. He hates her; she’s just as the other typical “gringos” he regrets. And so, Brittany hates him; he’s just as the other Latins that “destroy” her culture. Why do we say they make Perfect Chemistry?

"Rules of Attraction" by Simone Elkeles

The sequel part for “Perfect Chemistry” narrates more about the life of Carlos Fuentes (Alex’s sibling). He just return from living a year in his homeland Mexico. Now in Colorado, he doesn’t want to be under his brother’s yoke; he wants to make thing his own way. The rules of attraction state that opposites attract; he meets Kiara Westford, a silent, calm girl, who feels intimidated by Carlos ways of being. He starts to back down with her. The plan stops when he notices that Kiara really needs him.

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Ballet Shoes (2007)

            This television film is an adaptation of the novel written by Noel Streatfeild. This drama takes place on the early decades of the XX century; it is a very nice story.

    A paleontologist, named Matthew (Richard Griffiths) receives the custody of a girl named Sylvia Brown (Emilia Fox), whose parents died in an accident. Along with her nana (Victoria Wood), the girl starts living with Matthew. At first he didn’t like the idea at all, but as time passes things get better. Matthew or, as Sylvia called him, GUM (Great Uncle Matthew) travels around the world frequently and, as Sylvia grows up, he starts adopting baby girls that he finds on his trips.  First, Pauline comes, followed by Petrova and finally Posy; they all get the last name Fossil, the name was given by Gum. After the third girl is adopted, Gum doesn’t come back anymore from his last trip. As years go by, the new family has to find a way to overcome their financial problems, so they sell some old skeletons to make some space and have rooms for lease. One of the guests is a dance instructor named Theo Danes, who asks Sylvia to let the girls audition to enter a dance academy, so that later on they can be able to work in theaters an help the family’s economy. Sylvia agrees, but as the movie goes by, each of the girls discovers their real interests and talents. Will the Fossil girls be able to help themselves and their family? Find out watching Ballet Shoes. 

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

            This dramatic and charming film was released in the year of 2008. Based on a 2006 novel by John Boyne, it promises to be a heart-warming movie you shouldn’t miss.

            An 8-year-old kid named Bruno (Asa Butterfield), son of a Nazi commander in times of the Holocaust, meets another 8-year-old while he goes out and play in his new town. It turns out to be that the boy he meets, Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), is a Jewish inmate inside an extermination camp. They talk frequently and become friends, each of them in a different side of the fence that divides the camp from other fields. Bruno doesn’t know exactly why Shmuel is inside there, why can’t he go out, and why does he wear all the time a striped Pajamas. Their friendship becomes complicated due to their social differences.

Will they be friends forever, or will segregation affect their friendship? Find out watching The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.  

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Takénobu
His real name is Nick Takénobu Ogawa, he is a japanese cellist and composer. This guy started playing cello since he was 6 years old, but it came a time when he became bored of classical stuff, and that's when the interesting part begins. 
He taught himself to play and sing at the same time, and then started composing songs mixing genres that are considered unusual for cello.

http://www.takenobumusic.com/
This is his personal page, here you can find his music and latest news.
Keep up with him and see what this talented artist brings up!

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Everyone has someone they'd rahter be. These four young teens face their highlights to meet perfection, but perfection is not as good as it seems. Cara tries to live by her parent's expectations, Kendra, obsessed with beauty, develops a disorder on her way to be “perfect”, Sean, Cara’s boyfriend, starts to use steroids in order to win the university’s scholarship, And then we have Andre, whose wealthy parents want him to be a business man, but all he wants to do is to dance. Do you want to be perfect?

Bailey and Lennie are inseparable sisters; Bailey is older and has more experience at school and parties, while Lennie lives in her sister’s shadow. World falls down for Lennie when Bailey dies abruptly. Now she has to experience life by her own. Things start to pressure when she feels something new in her heart, they call it love. Toby, Bailey’s boyfriend comforts her sorrow. And Joe takes her out of it. The thing is, that she feels guilty because her grief has been gone with love. She mustn’t forget that the sky is everywhere. 

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Boom boom ouch! 

As some of us already know, there was a tragic accident this week, in our city: a 61 year old man named Teodoro Sarabia suffered serious burns due to an explosion inside a house. This took place in Banus, here in Hermosillo. The status of the man is delicate, indeed, the doctor said he was in the "first 72 critic hours". The man was doing some changes for the house to be sold when the accident occurred. He has now severe first and second degree burns in 50% of his body, and is being treated in ISSTESON.

Smoking kills 

And talking about fire and stuff, here's an advice for those who smoke before taking a nap or sleeping at night: there was a fire in a jail in Honduras. The cause? One of the prisioners fell asleep while he was smoking a cigarrette. The fire killed 359 men and 471 survived to it. Even though it was an accident, it could have been prevented if the prisioner had a little bit of prudence or conscience.

Sheen vs. Kutcher

Some of us think that Two and a Half has not been the same since Ashton Kutcher replaced Charlie Sheen due to Sheen's legal problems. And guess what? Charlie agrees with that. Recently he made a public declaration in which he said "I'm tired of pretending that this show doesn't suck... I'm tired of pretending that Ashton Kutcher doesn't suck". But in the past days he made a second declaration apologysing with Kutcher and wishing him the best in his carreer.