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                                                    they would fill bottles with wasps and throw it
The Story of the                                    at the participants, the serbian public authori‐
                                                    ties prohibited the parade.
Banned Rainbows
                                                    In 2010, when the gay pride was first
Reisner Marie-Christine                             celebrated, right-wing extremists and hooligans
                                                    fought on street and about 200 people were in‐
Rainbows - those colourful figures in the sky af‐   jured and bruised. ere were intended to be
ter a rainy day, when the sun comes out again.      about 300 people in the parade and 6500 po‐
Since the 30th of June they are banned in Rus‐      licemen to protect them, but immediately 10
sia. Well, actually what they stand for: Homo‐      groups of right-wing extremists registered
sexuality.                                          demonstrations for a “healthy serbia”.

is anti-gay law should protect children from       So on Friday aernoon, the vice prime-
propaganda of non-traditional relationships,        minister, Aleksandar Vučić said that the parade
but neo-Nazis use this to crucify and torture       would not be allowed to take place. It is am‐
homosexuals and transgenders legally. is ac‐       biguous if the parade was illegal or connived by
tions are filmed and posted on websites, for ex‐    the authorities, but it is certain that at the same
ample facebook. As a consequence of this, some      time, in the center of Belgrade there were a lot
victims have committed suicide.                     of policemen.
                                                                                                          e inside of the Westgate Mall (Source:O.Canada.com)
But not only in Russia it’s difficult to be homo‐     While going around in town, the gays, lesbians,
sexual. In some countries in Africa and Arabia      bisexuals and transgenders protesters carried         in Nairobi, Kenya. Aer killing 2 watchmen
it is punished with the capital punishment, of‐     posters that said “at’s pride. “                     they took 130 hostages and entrenched them‐               The not so
                                                                                                          selves in the mall called Westgate.
                                                                                                                                                                    glamorous side of
                                                                                                          e Kenyan Military formed a small “storm
                                                                                                          commando” and began with the retaking of the              the 2014 Olympic
                                                                                                          mall on Saturday, but it was already too late for
                                                                                                          most of the hostages. 67 people were killed by            Winter Games
                                                                                                          Al-Shabaab before the Kenyan Units even had a
                                                                                                          chance to help them.                                      Julia Strauß

                                                                                                          On Sunday morning the government of Kenya                 On the 7th of February 2014 the XXII Olympic
                                                                                                          gave a statement that the mall was back under             Winter Games will officially be opened in
                                                                                                          their control, but a few minutes aer that, shots         Sochi, Russia. ere will no doubt be a glam‐
                                                                                                          were fired. Aer 2 more days of fighting on               orous and prestigious opening ceremony but so
                                                                                                          Sunday and Monday the government said in                  far the most events leading up to the Olympic
                                                                                                          another statement on Tuesday morning that the             Games have not been so glamorous. In fact
                                                                                                          mall was entirely cleared. In the aernoon shots          there has been a lot of controversy.
                                                                                                          were heard but government members explained               It started with the people, who are living in
                                                                                                          that their troops shot in the rooms before enter‐         Sochi, being forced off their land and robbed of
                                                                                                          ing in case an Al-Shabaab member was hiding               their homes. Due to there nearly not being any
                                                                                                          there. If this is the truth it will be totally clear in   previous infrastructure, sport facilities, hotels
                                                                                                          the near future.                                          and other buildings, everything had to be built
                                                                                                                                                                    from scratch. Needless to say, the inhabitants of
e 2010 Gay Pride Parade in Belgrade (Source:thestar.com)                                                 Experts believe that the mall still was under the         Sochi were not amused about that.
                                                                                                          control of the Al-Shabaab members when the
ten it is seen as a psychic disease. Some reli‐                                                           government made the statement that the mall               e Russian government didn’t seem to care,
gious groups have developed “therapies” against     Bloodbath in                                          had been cleared. Maybe they wanted to draw               though. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin just
homosexuality and want to heal this people                                                                away the attention of the world from the prob‐            started to take notice for the first time when the
from their “illnesses”                              Kenya                                                 lems of Kenya. e official number of victims,               actual costs of turning the town of Sochi into an
                                                                                                          according to NY-Times, is 67, but it’s very likely        Olympic city began to greatly exceed the
All over the world there are demonstrations         Ronald Moritz                                         that more dead bodies will be found. e mili‐             planned costs. According to him the games
against the discrimination against gay, lesbian,                                                          tary says that it will rise above 100.                    were supposed to cost approximately 12 billion
bisexual or transgendered people. Aer the law      Aer planning the attack for several weeks a                                                                    dollars, but experts estimate that the games will
was made in Russia, the zebra crossings in front    terrorist organization called Al-Shabaab took         Al-Shabaab is a terror organization from Soma‐            actually cost over 50 billion dollars. is would
of the Russian embassy in Stockholm and Oslo        over a mall in Nairobi and entrenched them‐           lia. eir goal is to make an Islamic state and            make them the most expensive Olympic Games
was painted in the colours of the rainbow.          selves with more than 100 hostages. e mili‐          the participation in a worldwide jihad, the Is‐           ever.
                                                    tary of Kenya managed to get the mall back but        lamic version of a crusade. In February 2012
On the 27th of September, there was a               took heavy losses.                                    they swore their loyalty to Al-Qaida and thus             Another controversy that has recently got a lot
overnight parade, called “Gay Pride” in Bel‐                                                              they are an ally of them.                                 of attention around the world has been Russia’s
grade. Actually it should be on Saturday, but af‐   Friday 21th September 2013. Troops of the ter‐                                                                  new anti-gay law. is law forbids the promo‐
ter threats from right-wing extremists, who said    rorist organization Al-Shabaab stormed a mall                                                                   tion of homosexuality in any way. But no one
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homosexuality” means. Nevertheless, people
who are considered to have broken that law are
getting forced to pay huge fines and can even
get put into prison. President Vladimir Putin
claims that this law is just a measure to fight the
rapidly falling birth rates in Russia whereas the
rest of the world thinks that this is just very ho‐
mophobic.
In Russia, this so-called anti-gay propaganda

                                                      Warehouse burns
                                                      down to
                                                      foundation wall
                                                      Nadine Plöckinger

                                                      A 6,000-square-foot warehouse has gone up in
                                                      flames early on Wednesday morning in Bad
                                                      Deutsch Altenburg, Lower Austria. e Fire
                                                      Brigades battled all night against the blazing fire
                                                      that was difficult to bring under control. Again
Sochi is on course to be the most expensive           and again straw bales, which were stored in the
games ever. (Source:Reuters)                          warehouse, began to burn in the hall again.

law has already led to horrible consequences for
gay people. Because of that law the rest of the
world is now worried about the well-being of
the athletes that will be competing in the up‐                                                              Schärding under water in 2013 (Source:reddit.com)
coming games. Some of the athletes themselves
have even talked about boycotting the games,                                                                police. e flames may have started inside the
while others think it would be better to com‐                                                               hall. Fire & Police investigators are trying to      Number of car
pete at the games and just openly stand up for                                                              find out the cause now.
what you are and what you believe in. is of                                                                                                                     crashes in
course could potentially be very dangerous, al‐       e warehouse fire was difficult to control be‐
though most people believe that Russia won’t          cause of the straw it contained. (Source:Vien‐                                                             Austria on the
threaten or punish foreign athletes openly. It all    naOnline)                                             The flood in
just remains to be seen, how the anti-gay law                                                                                                                    rises - More and
will affect the Olympic Winter Games in 2014           e fire broke out about 6 o’clock in the morn‐        Schärding
in Sochi in the end.                                  ing and rapidly set fire to 20,000 bales of straw                                                          more traffic
                                                      as well as the agriculture equipment, which was       Lena Scharnböck
                                                      parked in the hall. Because of the dense, acrid                                                            accidents
                                                      smoke which was created residents were asked,         On the morning of Monday the 3rd June 2013
Update Fukushima:                                     to close the windows and not to leave their           Schärding was flooded by the river Inn. A lot of     Nadine Krautzer
                                                      houses till the fire was out.                         people had to leave their homes because of the
Nuclear Disaster                                                                                            rising water. More than 210 houses had to be         A statistic shows that in 2012 there was 40,831
                                                      The steel gave way due to the heat                    evacuated and that's only in the morning. Dur‐       traffic accidents, resulting in 50.895 people be‐
Claudia Spadinger                                                                                           ing the day the water rose even more. A lot of       ing badly injured. 531 died because of a car
                                                      Overall there were 10 fire services with more         people lost their homes and nearly all their per‐    crash, e year before (2011) it were 523.
Two years ago the one of the world's night‐           than 150 men in use. ose men fought against          sonal stuff, they only had a few minutes to grab
mares came true, a second accident like Cher‐         the flames under extremely thick smoke.               their most important things before they had to       e highest quantity of traffic accidents had
nobyl. Now in a Japan city called Fukushima, 2                                                              leave their houses.                                  been announced by the police in Lower Austria
years later and new information is still coming       e heat was so extreme, that aer a time the                                                               (7.921), Upper Austria (7.416), Vienna (6.348)
in but it seems not to be good news.                  steel construction of the hall collapsed.             More than 500 people tried to stop the flood by      and Styria (6.186).
                                                                                                            building walls with sandbags. e level reached
On 11 March 2011 a tsunami hit the east coast         en the firefighter had to beat a retreat, other‐     a new record of 10,70 m. e water reached up         1 in 15 accidents are caused by the driver being
of Japan and destroyed the nuclear power plant        wise they would have been in danger them‐             to the first floor of some houses and flooded ev‐    drunk. is means that in 2012 were 2,684 car
in Fukushima. e cooling system broke down            selves. Just a few minutes later the hall col‐        erything under it, experts said it was the biggest   crashes due to alcohol which lead to 3.425 in‐
and the core overheated. e plant exploded            lapsed. Also the train tracks of the passing train    flood of the century.                                jured people and 39 deaths.
and radioactivity escaped.                            S7 were destroyed by the heat. e train service
                                                      was interrupted and a replacement bus service         A lot of the older people refused to leave their     One of the latest accident in Upper Austria hap‐
e 19 miles/30 km area around the nuclear             had to be established.                                homes because they have lived there their            pened in Tauirchen on 14th of July. ere was
power plant was evacuated two years ago and                                                                 whole life and their houses were full of memo‐       a crash on the B 129 in Tauirchen an der
there will not be anyone living there for the         Fire watch over night                                 ries. Some even burst into tears when they saw       Pram.
next 100 years. You will have heard and seen it                                                             their flooded home, in which they had lived for
everywhere. On the TV, radio and the newspa‐          roughout the evening all the helpers were            many years. e whole city had to be closed be‐       A 49-year-old from Kopfing was seriously in‐
pers. But what´s happening now?!                      busy to defeating the fire but the flames were        cause most of the streets were already flooded.      jured and a 54-year-old female passenger from
                                                      rekindled again and again. Aer the fire was                                                               Neukirchen am Walde was found dead. A 18-
ere is a problematic situation. ere are 300         under control, a fire watch was held overnight        Aer the water returned the work really began,       year-old mechanic from Andorf crashed into a
tons of radioactive groundwater, which is slow‐       to defeat the fire and make sure it would not         about 700 helpers had to remove the damage           car in which two women were sitting
ly tickling away into the ocean. e personnel         start again.                                          and clean up. Mud reach two meter high, chairs
of the nuclear power plant built tanks for the                                                              and tables were lying on the streets because the     e female drive, a masseuse from Kopfing, was
radioactive water but by August, 80 percent of        On ursday morning there were still four fire         water carried it along with it, even cars dried     seriously injured in the crash and airlied to
the tanks have already been filled. Now the peo‐      brigades in use. e work is expected to last          away. e cleaning-up operations ran at full          Linz General Hospital by the Christophorus
ple are looking for another place to take the nu‐     three days, Resperger described the difficulty          speed, but it was very difficult because the enor‐     Europe 10 helicopter .
clear waste.                                          aer fighting duties: the collapsed giant tin roof    mous damage. It will take months until every‐        Her co-driver, 54, from Neukirchen am Walde,
                                                      was lying on the smoldering straw bales, so the       thing looks like before.                             had no chance of survival because the car crash
Few weeks ago there was another earthquake in         firemen could not reach them to divide them                                                                was so serious.
Japan. So another problem appeared. e prob‐          and to soak the embers.                               e President of Upper Austria Josef Pühringer
lem is, that, because of the earthquake, there are                                                          said that                                            e two passengers of the young driver from
new leaks at the plant where much of the ra‐          Cause of fire unknown                                                                                      Andorf, both 17 years old, were admitted to the
dioactivity is contaminating the air. People are                                                            "he would help the flood victims"                    Regional Hospital in Schärding with minor in‐
reporting, that they saw clouds rising up above       How the fire broke out in the warehouse is not                                                             juries. Both cars are complete write offs.
the plant.                                            known now. ere were no machines in use and           but will he really help all of them?
                                                      the sliding door was closed, according to the                                                              is story of the latest car accident in Upper
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Austria shows that are roads are really danger‐      Herbert H.: Yes, he called me shortly aer 7         completely. e woman wasn’t recognisable.
ous. Everybody who is allowed to drive and has
a driving license should still be carefully be‐
                                                     o’clock early in the morning and placed a kind
                                                     of confession. It’s crazy, he’s a really good
                                                                                                          Psychologists say that’s typical when somebody
                                                                                                          kills somebody they love.
                                                                                                                                                                A Short
cause if you are not carefully, you risk your not    friend. At first I thought that he informed me
only your own life and the life of others.           that he shot a deer in Allentsteig. He is an avid
                                                     hunter.
                                                                                                          Aer the murder Lukas smashed the front door,
                                                                                                          so it looked like a burglary. en he threw the
                                                                                                                                                                Message
So think about it!                                                                                        axe into the Pram, a river in Tauirchen and
                                                                                                          drove to the restaurant where his grandfather
                                                                                                          was. ere he ordered a coke, because this was
                                                                                                                                                                from the
                                                                                                          the sign for the grandfather that the grand‐
                                                                                                          mother has been killed.
                                                                                                                                                                Editor
                                                                                                          When the husband of the victim got home, he
                                                                                                          looked into the living room and then called the
                                                                                                          police. He said: “My wife is unconscious”.
                                                                                                                                                                About the
                                                                                                          When the police and the paramedics came and
                                                                                                          saw the totally destroyed face of the victim, they
                                                                                                          thought that this is really strange. e woman
                                                                                                                                                                Course
                                                                                                          was lying in a blood lake and wasn’t able to rec‐
                                                                                                          ognize, but the grandfather said “unconscious”.      I would like to take this opportunity to thank
                                                                                                          e second weird thing was that as the police         all the students in the Journalism groups for
                                                                                                          came the man ran out of the house and                their excellent work. ey have all written inter‐
                                                                                                          screamed: “I have an alibi!”                         esting and informative articles and I hope you
                                                                                                                                                               the reader will have as much fun reading them
                                                                                                          Aer weeks, Lukas confessed the crime. His           as the students had writing them.
                                                                                                          grandfather told him to do it. And Lukas had to
                                                                                                          help him or he would make Lukas’ life a living       During the course we wanted to cover some of
                                                                                                          hell so Lukas killed his gran without asking. Ex‐    the essential skills that every journalist needs.
                                                                                                          perts who talked to Lukas, said that he is de‐       By the end of the course each student should be
                                                                                                          pendent on the grandpa and that’s why Lukas          able to:
                                                                                                          did this terrible thing. In court, images showed
                                                                                                          the grandmother’s dead body. e jurors were             • Identify and prioritise “Who, What,
                                                                                                          shocked, while Lukas quietly sat there and           When, Why and How” for each article.
Police officers secure the area around a farm on which the poacher was entrenched. (Source:Sa‐              watched them.                                           • Use the 5Ws and 1H to write a strong
loon.com)                                                                                                 e grandfather didn't confess to the crime, he       and informative introduction (lead).
                                                                                                          always said, he didn’t understand why Lukas             • Follow the inverted pyramid of article
                                                     Interviewer: What did he tell you?                   blames him.                                          construction.
Hostage crises in                                                                                         e trail started on 26th of August 2013, the            • Give and carrying out interviews, using
                                                     Hubert H.: He told me, “I am a poacher in            judgement is: eighteen years in prison for the       open questions and selecting good quotes.
Austria                                              Annaberg. I have three people shot. e house         grandfather, twelve for Lukas.                          • Recognise ethical problems in journalism
                                                     is surrounded by the police.”                                                                             and ways to use journalist standards to help re‐
Bettina Olear                                                                                                                                                  solve conflicts.
                                                     ree armored vehicles drove up to the farm.                                                                  • Find bias in sources and articles, under‐
Again and again offenders have taken hostages         e Cobra ran a "secure search" of the extensive                                                           stand a writer's perspective.
in Austria in the past. Oen, bank robberies         property. e 55-year-old man was heavily                                                                     • Write a compelling short review of a
where the trigger is robbers seeing their escape     armed and had repeatedly fired shots from the                                                             book, film or sporting event.
route cut off or when the police was hot on           homestead in the course of the day. Shortly af‐                                                              • Find and then caption accompanying
their heels.                                         ter midnight at 0.15 finally the burned body of                                                           graphics.
                                                     the suspected gunman was found in a basement
Some of the more spectacular hostage situa‐          of the property. In the secret bunker-like room      e trail of 2 men accused of killing their
tions:                                               it was still burning when the police arrived.        grandmother and wife (Source:OÖN)

    • 14th November 1996: Prisoners wants
their release by taking hostages.
    • 9 May 2003: 16 Hostages were taken by a        Grandmother                                          What Does a
bank robber in a BAWAG branch in Linz.
    • 27th February 2007: In a BAWAG branch          murdered in                                          Teenager from
in Vienna Mariahilferstraße a 39-year-old takes
several hostages.                                    Taufkirchen                                          Schärding do all
    • 3rd December 2012: Two bank robbers
armed with machine guns in Laakirchen                Christina kallab                                     Summer?                                              Initial planning, deciding what to write
(Gmunden) take three hostages and hold them
captive.                                             A cruel murder occurred in a small Upper Aus‐        Magdalena Kohlbauer
    • 17th September 2013: is year their was        trian parish. e nineteen years old student
a tragic hostage incident in the district of Melk.   Lukas S. killed his grandmother brutally.            Holidays with the parents, meeting friends and
    • 55-year old Alois shot dead four people,                                                            simply having fun in 9 weeks of freedom from
e police later found his body in a farm in          “e grandmother has to go!”, prompted the            school, teachers and homework. So are the holi‐
Großpriel.                                           grandfather (72) multiple times. On October          days of a normal schoolgirl from Austria?
                                                     26th 2012 he told Lukas to kill the woman be‐
e tracking of a poacher, sought for years,          cause then he had an alibi: the class reunion,       I interviewed Nadine Krautzer about her holi‐
ended with a tragedy. Alois Huber, a 44 year old     where he saw his old classmates. While the           days in summer 2013.is is what she told me:
from the district of Melk, killed two police offi‐     grandfather was out, Lukas crept into the cellar
cers and a Red Cross paramedic during a night‐       of his grandparents and took an axe. en he          "I was with my family in Croatia, there we were
time inspection in Annaberg.                         went upstairs and walked into the living room.       sightseeing, went shopping, visited restaurants,     e budding Journalists researching
                                                     His grandmother, Renate D., looked at him and        but most of the time we were at the beach. We
en he held a policeman hostage in his home          said: “What’s going on?” “I can’t tell you”, an‐     rented a house and every day a dog came,
town of Großpriel and barricaded himself in his      swered Lukas. “Grandpa, am I right?”                 which we called our holiday pet!"
home. ere, Huber had a wild shootout with
Cobra elite police. e hostage was eventually        en Lukas hit Renate the first time. It was a lit‐   What did you do back at home?
killed by the weapon of the gunman.                  tle blow, so the Grandma tottered into the bath‐
                                                     room to clean the wound. en she went back           "I met friends, went into city or swimming on a
Alois confessed his friend to the murder on the      into the living room to speak with her               lake. My uncle married and I photographed ev‐
phone                                                grandson.                                            erything. It was a great marriage."

Interviewer: Mister Huthansl, have you been          But before she was able to say anything, Lukas       So Austrian schoolgirls spend their well earned
called in the morning by Huber?                      hit her again. But this time it was a strong blow.   holidays!
                                                     He hit her again and again, smashed her face in                                                           Typing up the final artciles
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Below is a few photos we took to show the mak‐        friends and the parents don’t know where the        When a person tries to get information through
“Children must be
ing of this newspaper.                                children are so that could lead to the the chil‐    this cloudy mess, they can’t do it. Drugs make a      Body Found in
                                                      dren smoking, taking drugs or drinking              person feel slow or stupid and cause him to
punished all the                                      alcohol. Raising children badly is a disaster for   have problems in life. And as the user has more       Car: Drugs and
                                                      the whole of Austria.                               problems and life gets harder, they want more
time”                                                                                                                                                           their effects
Marina Azer                                                                                                                                                     Sophia Fuchs

Some parents don’t know what real education                                                                                                                     On the 25th September a policeman found the
means, they are too strict with their children -                                                                                                                dead body of a young 26-year-old man who
the most important point in raising them with                                                                                                                   died of a suspected drug and alcohol overdose
love.                                                                                                                                                           in the car of an American man. It was only luck
                                                                                                                                                                that the policeman from Vienna found him.
Some parents think that punishment is the best                                                                                                                  e autopsy later confirmed as a drug poison‐
way to raise their children but in my opinion                                                                                                                   ing. e American man (38) wanted to hide the
this is definitely the false way. ey are many                                                                                                                  corpse.
points which can help parents in bringing up
their children.                                                                                                                                                 e two men went out and consumed drugs
                                                                                                                                                                and alcohol in a disco. When the two men came
   • First the child must feel that they are very                                                                                                               to the flat of the American they took more drug
important for their parents. To create this feel‐                                                                                                               and went to sleep. When the American man
ing they could read to them every day or eat                                                                                                                    woke up the next day he saw the lifeless body
dinner together so that the child knows they are                                                                                                                from his friend. e young man died because of
loved. ey must also give their children                                                                                                                        an overdose of heroin. He tried to help his
enough playtime.                                                                                                                                                friend but he couldn´t. He was shocked and
   • As I said at the beginning the most basic                                                                                                                  scared about the consequences and so took the
point in raising children is to love them and be                                                                                                                lifeless body in the trunk of his car.
sure parents can never love their children too
much.                                                                                                                                                           On the night to Monday he was driving around
   • e parents must learn to listen to the                                                                                                                     and was looking for a good place to hide his
children, some parents are not able to do this                                                                                                                  dead friend. He le the car and tried to find one
because they have no time and they always have                                                                                                                  in a forest. Some people that had gone for a
to work but when they don’t do this from the                                                                                                                    walk in the evening found the car because and
beginning the children will learn never tell                                                                                                                    saw the lifeless body. ey immediately called
them anything.                                                                                                                                                  the police.
   • From the outset parents have also to treat
the children with respect so the children learn                                                                                                                 e 38 old man said that he tried to hide the
right from the start to respect the older and the     Infographic showing global drug use (Source:Guardian.com)                                                 body because he was afraid, shocked and he
younger people.                                                                                                                                                 didn’t want any problems at his job or at home.
   • Some parents have no patience and when                                                               drugs to help him deal with the problem.              He said he now knows that he made the wrong
their child does something wrong they punish          The danger of                                                                                             decision.
them, I feel that is wrong and also dangerous                                                             Drugs destroy creativity: One lie told about
because if the parent is angry they can punish        drugs                                               drugs is that they help a person become more          Drugs aren’t only taken by 20 year old people.
the child. too hard and possibly hurt them                                                                creative. e truth is quite different. Someone         ere are young people who aren’t older than
Sometime it’s necessary to punish the child but       Jullia freihaut                                     who is sad might use drugs to get a feeling of        14 years who are addicted to drugs. Most young
the parents have to punish with a loving heart                                                            happiness, but it does not work. Drugs can li a      people only consume drugs because they want
that means be just.                                   Drugs are not all the same. Different drugs have     person into a fake kind of cheerfulness, but          to have friends and they want to be in a group
   • And last but not least they must teach           different dangers associated with them. It de‐       when the drug wears off, he or she will fall even      with other people.
their children to take responsibility for their ac‐   pends on how much the drug is taken, how of‐        lower than before. Eventually, drugs will com‐
tions.                                                ten the drug is taken and how a drug is taken.      pletely destroy all the creativity a person has.      When you are addicted to drugs it´s hard to get
                                                      e effects and danger are influenced by many         e most dangerous drugs that exist in the             away from them. More than 80% of addicted
Everybody knows that we must treat our chil‐          things.                                             modern world: Bath Salts, Crystal Meth, Ke‐           people die and usually you can only pack it in
dren right and we must be careful but what will                                                           tamine, Street Methadone, Cocaine, Heroin,            when you go to therapy. But for therapy you
happen if ignore this advice and we just shout        e mental or psychological state of the drug        Opiates, LSD                                          need a lot of money and addicted people nor‐
at the children and punish them?                      user is also very important, because if they are                                                          mally have little or no money because they had
                                                      anxious, depressed or unstable they are more        Why do people take drugs?                             sold all their things for buying drugs. Every day
e answer is very easy, they won’t trust us,          likely to have a disturbing experiences when us‐    People take drugs because they want to change         you can hear stories about people who die of an
they will be damaged and they won’t dare to do        ing drugs.                                          something about their lives.                          overdose on drugs. It is my advice when some‐
anything. In summary they will be closed off.          Many scientific and psychiatric studies confirm     Here are some of the reasons young people have        body offers you drugs you should be able to say
                                                      that there are a high number of drugs which         given for taking drugs: to fit in, to escape or re‐   NO!
So it’s very important to raise your children well    have potentially extreme and dangerous effects       lax, to relieve boredom, to seem grew up, to
because if you as a parent don’t do this right the    on the health of the individual who uses them.      rebel, to experiment,…
child will have a lots of problems in the future.                                                         People who are using drugs think drugs are a
e danger is that the children spend more             Drugs affect the mind: Normally, when a per‐         solution. But in the end, the drugs become the
time with their friend and nowadays we don’t          son remembers something, the mind is very           problem. e consequences of drug use are al‐
know how these friends are. Are they good or          fast and information comes to them quickly.         ways worse than the problem one is trying to
bad? If the children always are with their            But drugs blur memory, causing blank spots.         solve with them.
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       Travel & Transport
                                                      Madame Tussaud´s is a world famous waxwork            e Costa Concordia was a luxury ship with
My top 8 must see                                     museum. ere you can see figures famous peo‐          many decks, restaurants, bars and had capacity       Plane crashes are
                                                      ple, especially actors/actresses, sports legends,     for 4,880 people, including crew. e tragedy
sights in London                                      famous writers and artists, religious figures and     started as captain Franceso Schettino deviated       happening across
                                                      musicians, that are made of wax. Madame Tus‐          from the programmed route.
                                                      saud´s is not only in London, there are some                                                               the world - A
Johanna Lachmayr                                      branches in Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Las
                                                      Vegas, Berlin, Washington DC and New York                                                                  Short Summary
You want to go to London but you have no idea         City but the first one is in London and was
what you should visit? Don't worry, London has        founded by Marie Tussaud in 1802. e current                                                               Elisabeth Pretzl
something for everyone!                               museum suffered a fire in 1925 and many stat‐
                                                      ues were lost however some of the missing fig‐                                                             Plane crashes are extremely unusual events. Per
One of the most famous sights is the Houses of        ures have been recreated.                                                                                  year about 500 people die by terrible plane
Parliament. In 1265 a parliament was created                                                                                                                     crashes. Here are some famous examples you
near here, it now has two houses: the Lords and       Buckingham Palace, one of several palaces                                                                  should know about:
the Commons. e clock tower oen called Big           owned by the British Royal family and is one of
Ben is named aer the largest bell that is inside     the major tourist attractions in London. e                                                                    • A Douglas DC-8-63 that crashed into a
the tower and was the world's largest bell when       changing of the guard takes place daily at 11                                                              forest aer a stopover at Gander Airport, Cana‐
it was installed in the middle of the 19th centu‐     o'clock in front of Buckingham Palace. It is a                                                             da immediately aer departure. at accident
ry and still is the largest in Great-Britain. e      must see!                                             e Costa Concordia on her side before sal‐           occurred on December 12, 1985. All 256 pas‐
bell is probably named aer Benjamin Hall, the                                                              vage (Source:CNN.com)                                sengers lost their life. It was probably because of
first Commissioner of Works although some             Harrods is one of the most popular shopping                                                                Ice on the wings
sources claim that it is maybe named aer Ben‐        centers in the world and one of the most visited      At 21:45 local time, the ship struck its port side       • On 17 July, 1996 a Boeing 747-100
jamin Caunt, a famous boxing champion at that         attractions in London. It was founded by              on the reef. e collision could be heard on          crashed into the sea just off the coast Long Is‐
time.                                                 Charles Henry Harrod in 1834. e company´s            board and resulted in a power outage because         lands aer takeoff from JFK Airport in New
                                                      motto is: “omni, omnibus, ubique” (everything         water had flooded the engine room and had de‐        York. 230 people were killed in that tragic acci‐
                                                                                                            stroyed the generators and machines. e crew         dent. At first it was thought to be a bomb but
                                                                                                            tried to calm the passengers down and ordered        aer a long investigation a short circuit in a fuel
                                                                                                            them to go to their cabins. By now, the captain      tanks was blamed.
                                                                                                            had lost control over the ship but did not con‐          • On September 2, 1998, Swissair flight 111
                                                                                                            tact the harbour for help. Aer the impact, the      (a McDonnell Douglas MD-11) crashed on a
                                                                                                            vessel began listing to starboard. People who        flight from New York to Geneva killing 229
                                                                                                            witnessed the situation on board described that      people. is flight was oen called the U.N bus
                                                                                                            nothing was well regulated and the crew was          as lots of U.N officials used it. e cause was a
                                                                                                            not trained enough for such an emergency.            fire that spread to the cockpit.
                                                                                                            Screaming passengers who had put their life              • In May 25, 2002 China Airlines Flight
                                                                                                            jackets on ran around, some even jumped off           611 (a Boeing 747-200) broke apart because of
                                                                                                            the ship.                                            material fatigue. e machine was on the way
                                                                                                                                                                 from Taipei to Hong Kong. 225 people died.
                                                                                                            At 22:50, the order to evacuate was given and            • A recent example is a very bad crash that
                                                                                                            with the help of lifeboats, helicopters and other    happened in San Francisco a short time ago. A
                                                                                                            ships most of the tourists were rescued. Because     Boeing 777, which came from Seoul, had an ac‐
                                                                                                            of the capsizing ship, the lowering of the           cident at the San Francisco airport on Sunday
                                                                                                            lifeboat was very difficult. e evacuation lasted      July 17, 2013 at 11:07. Two Chinese teenagers
                                                                                                            the whole night. e next day, rescue divers          were thrown out of the plane and died in a cru‐
                                                                                                            could only find 50 people who had been miss‐         el way. Furthermore 182 passengers were partly
                                                                                                            ing. e search for survivors was continued for       badly injured. ose people injured were taken
e London eye is just opposite e House of Parliament and next to London Aquarium (Source:                  two days, but without any success. All in all 32     by ambulance to a local hospital. Altogether
mojomums.co.uk)                                                                                             people died and 64 were badly injured.               305 people were on the Boeing 777. e reason
                                                                                                                                                                 of the plane crash is unclear. e tail of the
                                                      for everyone, everywhere). In 1849 disaster           From 16th – 17th September 2013 the ship was         plane was smashed durring the emergency
Near of the Big Ben there is the London Eye.          struck: e whole building caught fire and             righted. e whole mission took 19 hours and          landing.
e London Eye is a big Ferris wheel from              burned down and so it had to be rebuilt.              was finished at 4.00 am. e risk of this project
which you have a fantastic view of the area.                                                                was that the ship could have slipped into deeper     Even if plane crashes are very rare, planes still
While some travelers say the London Eye is an         is is just a short summary of a few important        water or could have broken apart. One week af‐       need to be checked more. Before every flight
amazing experience, others have said it's really      sights of London. ere are many other possi‐          ter the salvage divers found human remains on        experts should inspect these planes.
scary and not good for people who are afraid of       bilities to spend your time in London.                deck 4, which could be the last two missing
the heights.                                                                                                passengers. e ship will be carried into the
                                                                                                            harbour next year because there are oen heavy
In the London Aquarium there are a lot of dif‐                                                              storms in the winter. e cost is expected to be
ferent species of fishes. You can see thousands       The finial story                                      600 million euros.
of sea creatures in over 2 million liters of water.
In fact it is possible to discover over 500 species   of Costa                                              e captain Francesco Schettino, who does not
from every part of the world.                                                                               want to take the responsibility of the accident,
                                                      Concordia                                             is accused of negligent homicide and leaving
Another important sight is the Tower of Lon‐                                                                the ship early, at around 23:30. At this time,
don. Construction of the Tower was initiated in       Florian Hufnagl                                       there were still lots of passengers on it and
1070 and today it is best known for housing the                                                             Francesco Schettino did not obey radio the re‐
Crown Jewels.                                         On 12th January 2012 the Italian cruise ship          quest to come back.
                                                      Costa Concordia, which is part of the ocean
Also popular in London is the Tower Bridge            carrier “Costa Conciere”, hit a reef near the Ital‐   Aer the catastrophe, fewer people booked a
that was built in 1894. Five different contractors     ian island Giglio and partially sank. e              cruise, especially three days later. But now no‐
and nearly 450 workers were involved in the           captain, Francesco Schettino, ordered the evac‐       body seems to be scared and shocked anymore          Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crash landed at
construction of the 265 meter long bridge. You        uation too late and lost the control over the         and these trips are becoming more and more           San Francisco International Airport on 6th
can go inside the bridge, where you'll have a         ship. Altogether 32 people died. 77 Austrians         attractive again.                                    July 2013 (Source:theguardian.com)
magnificent view over London from the walk‐           were on board.
way between the two bridge towers.
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                                        Arts & Music
                                                      £31,200, which was well above their estimated       time by the way, is characterized by a loud bass
Banksy – Critical                                     prices.                                             as well as a strong melody.                          2013 #1 Newcomer
art that                                              On 13 June 2009, the Banksy vs Bristol Muse‐        In 1920 Boogie-woogie spread all over America        - Macklemore
                                                      um show opened at Bristol City Museum and           and at that time house parties started, where
encourages                                            Art Gallery, featuring more than 100 works of       Boogie pianists played. ey were called:             Michael Mayböck
                                                      art. e reaction to the show was positive, over     House-rent parties and worked like this: e
thinking                                              8,500 visitors came to the show on the first        occupier of the flat organized some bottles of       Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ ‘e Heist’ Hits
                                                      weekend.                                            grog. en using money from the people, who           platinum and their single ‘ri Shop’ is offi‐
Camilla Auersperg                                                                                         visited the party, the occupier could pay his        cially certified 7 times platinum.
                                                      Banksy’s first film, Exit rough the Gi Shop,      rent.
e pseudonymous England-based graffiti                  made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Fes‐                                                            Macklemore (Ben Haggerty) is an 30 year old
artist, political activist, film director, and        tival. e film was released in the UK on 5          Unfortunately in the year 1929 there was the         rapper from Seattle, Washington. His and Ryan
painter Banksy is a stunning artist, trying to tell   March 2010. In January 2011, he was nominat‐        commercial crisis in the USA, which affected          Lewis’ most successful song has been the chart
us something important with his drawings.             ed for the Academy Award for Best Documen‐          the musicians as well. Some lost their job –         topping ‘ri Shop’.
                                                      tary.                                               pubs were closed and therefore they had
Some consider his art a blemish on the city, dis‐                                                         nowhere to perform at. Nevertheless aer this        Aer this song it was easy to write him off as a
regarding the law. Others think he is saying          On September 24, over a year since his last         crisis (1930-1940) Boogie-woogie became a fa‐        one hit wonder with this funny song about sec‐
something others are too cowardly to say. His         work, a new Banksy drawing went up on his           mous and popular music style all over the            ond-hand shopping. But those who listen to
street art combines dark humour with graffiti.          website along with the subtitle ‘Better Out an     world. Around this time the Boogie-woogie            their album ‘e Heist’, must recognize that
Such artistic works of political and social com‐      In’.                                                dance was created as well, which is now some‐        Macklemore and his producing partner Ryan
                                                                                                          times more famous than the music because of          Lewis are a serious force to be reckoned with in
                                                                                                          the wonderful clothes the dancers wear.              the music business right now.

                                                                                                          One of the most famous groups of pianists was        ey are a perfect example that if you believe in
                                                                                                          “e Boogie-woogie trio”, which consisted of          yourself, work extremely hard and give yourself
                                                                                                          Albert                                               totally to something, you can make your
                                                                                                          Ammons, Mead Lewis and Pete Johnson. In              dreams come true and get very rich in the pro‐
                                                                                                          1938 they performed together on stage at a           cess. So how did they do this and nevertheless
                                                                                                          spring concert in the Carnegie hall. Henceforth      stay independent?
                                                                                                          the Boogie-Woogie became well-known all
                                                                                                          over the world.                                      At the age of 14 Macklemore started writing his
                                                                                                                                                               own lyrics. In 2005 he met his future producer
                                                                                                          Switzerland is also fascinated by Boogie-Woo‐        Ryan Lewis and since then the duo have worked
                                                                                                          gie and since 1977 there has taken place one of      together. Unfortunately, as time went on Mack‐
                                                                                                          the first events, where young people are able to     lemore also developed a serious drug habit. By
                                                                                                          show their talents by playing the piano.             2008 he landed in rehab to treat his serious ad‐
                                                                                                                                                               diction problems. Aer he got clean Mackle‐
                                                                                                          Today one young talent is Luca Sestak, who I         more and Lewis continued their creative career
                                                                                                          saw in concert about one month ago. He was           and between 2009 and 2011, the duo released
                                                                                                          born in Germany in 1995 and started playing          various of self-produced singles and mixtapes.
                                                                                                          the piano at the age of seven. Aer two years of     ey built up their own little fan base along the
                                                                                                          practicing he heard about the boogie-woogie          west coast. eir big breakthrough finally came
“Elephant In e Room”, an old English proverb. (Source:DailyTelecra)                                     music and fell in love with this style. At the age   in 2012.
                                                                                                          of eleven he put some videos on YouTube,
mentary have been featured on streets, walls,                                                             where he earned a lot of popularity and success.     e most exceptionally and admirable fact is:
and bridges of cities throughout the world. Ac‐       “Do the Boogie-                                     He has already played at a lot of festivals around   ey've done it all without ever signing a record
cording to author and graphic designer Tristan                                                            the world and in 2010 he recorded his first CD       deal! Instead of taking the short money, Mack‐
Manco and the book “Home Sweet Home”,                 woogie and turn                                     album, which is called “Lost in boogie”. One         lemore formed his own company and decided
Banksy was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol,                                                            year later Luca participated in the biggest Boo‐     to release e Heist on his own. ey keep 70%
England. He was the son of a photocopier tech‐        around and that's                                   gie-woogie festival of the world in Laroquebrou      of the profits and they've sold 12 million singles
nician and was trained as a butcher but later he                                                          (France).                                            worldwide. Mackelmore and Ryan Lewis have
became involved in graffiti.                            what it's all                                                                                            literally stuck their finger up at the mainstream
                                                                                                          Today his program mostly consists of his own         music industry.
Banksy says he was inspired by 3D, an English         about…” - The                                       compositions and interpretations in which he
graffiti artist and musician. Banksy displays his                                                           expresses his unmistakable style!                    In his personal life Macklemore has two sib‐
art on public surfaces such as walls. He began        History of                                                                                               lings, he became engaged to his girlfriend 2013
as a freehand graffiti artist in 1990–1994. He                                                                                                                   and is primarily of Irish descent.Macklemore
was inspired by local artists and his work was        Boogie-woogie                                                                                            processed his life into his music.
part of the larger Bristol underground scene
with Nick Walker, Inkie and 3D. Banksy's              Julia Bamberger                                                                                          So in my opinion when we hear his mixtapes
drawings feature humorous images sometimes                                                                                                                     and albums ‘e Heist’ and ’e Language of
combined with slogans. e message is usually          „e Boogie-woogie is the best music, that has                                                            my World’ we hear his life. For example in
anti-war, anti-capitalist or anti-establishment.      ever been invented for piano! “, this was a quote                                                        many songs ‘Otherside’ he speaks about his
Subjects oen include rats, apes, policemen,          of Axel Zwingenberger, who is a famous Ger‐                                                              drug addiction and how he got clean and in the
soldiers, children, and the elderly. One of           man Boogie-Woogie pianist.                                                                               song ‘Jimmy Lovine’ he describes why they
Banksy's works was a live "elephant in a room,"                                                                                                                didn't go for a major record deal. Macklemore
painted in pink and gold, which was intended          In general Boogie-woogie is a part of the music                                                          is also a supporter of gay rights, including
to draw attention to the issue of world poverty.      style Blues and comes from the USA, where                                                                same-sex marriage and is against homophobia
                                                      black and white people started to make music                                                             as shown in his song ‘Same Love’.
Banksy also made artwork displaying Queen             together. Musicians, especially pianists around
Victoria as a lesbian. Christina Aguilera bought      1900 travelled through America and earned                                                                So you can hate on this guy, cause he is a self-
the original of Queen Victoria as a lesbian and       money by playing the piano. Most of the time        Francesco Secchi & Sonja Emch Secchi are the         made underground rapper that hit it big with
two prints for £25,000. At an auction Banksy          the musicians performed in crowded pubs and         Boogie Woogie world champions 2013                   the catchy ‘rishop’, but he is an independent
got over £102,000 for his Bombing Middle Eng‐         so they had to play very loudly, so that the peo‐   (Source:dancefloor-magazin.ch)                       artist who did it all on his own for many years.
land. Two of his other graffiti works, Balloon          ple were able to hear the music. Because of that
Girl and Bomb Hugger, sold for £37,200 and            the Boogie-woogie, it wasn’t called this in that
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                                    Tech, Films &
                                       Games
                                                    of entering a passcode.                                      Town, where he meets Donald and Goofy, ey            Disney, you see many different characters you
The New iPhone 5S                                                                                                finally tell him what’s going on.                     ‘The Bling Ring‘
                                                                                                                                                                       may know from Final Fantasy or game worlds
                                                    As a 4-inch phone the iPhone 5S is smaller than                                                                    and see characters that you might know from
Miriam Lechner                                      Kingdom Hearts
                                                    all its direct Android and Windows 8 competi‐                Sora starts travelling around with them. Donald       Natascha
                                                                                                                                                                       films you Bischof
                                                                                                                                                                                  watched in your childhood. All in all,
                                                    tors, but it’s great in the hand, and more com‐              and Goofy are sent by King Mickey to follow           Kingdom Hearts is one of my favorite games
                                                    “The closer you
                                                    pact than most other phones. Also a new oper‐                the “key”, i.e. Sora and his key blade. On this       and
                                                                                                                                                                       By this
                                                                                                                                                                           I just
                                                                                                                                                                               point,
                                                                                                                                                                                  cant recommend
                                                                                                                                                                                       everybody and
                                                                                                                                                                                                   it enough
                                                                                                                                                                                                        their former
                                                                                                                                                                                                               to you!lin‐
                                                    ating system has been developed for this phone               journey, they find out that the key blade can         gerie model mother knows that Sofia Coppola's
                                                    get to the light,
                                                    – the iOS 7.                                                 close keyholes, which are the paths used by the       FIVE   STARS
                                                                                                                                                                       "e Bling   Ring"*****
                                                                                                                                                                                         is based on a true story.
                                                                                                                 heartless to travel between the worlds.
                                                    the
                                                    Conclusiongreater your                                                                                             The movie:
                                                                                                                 Sora and Riku both try to find Kairi, and Riku
                                                    shadow             becomes.”
                                                    In my opinion the flagship 5S is better than the             joins some very bad people, who want to open          High school friends Rebecca(Katie Chang) and
                                                    iPhone 5, because it has improved in some ar‐                the keyhole to the Kingdom Hearts. e King‐           Marc(Israel Broussard) bond over fashion and
                                                    Sarah
                                                    eas.    Maschik
                                                          But  there are not enough changes! Only a              dom Hearts is the source of all hearts, knowl‐        celebrities. When they realize that they can
                                                    few things like the color, processor and camera.             edge and force. Malefiz, leader of this group,        break into celebrity houses like that of Paris
                                                    From
                                                    Kingdom my point
                                                                 Heartsof isview
                                                                              thethe      part of the
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                                                                                                            is   lies and tells Riku that Sora has found new           Hilton and easily steal their belongings, it be‐
                                                    dom
                                                    a littleHearts
                                                             bit unnecessary
                                                                   series, made  however,
                                                                                     by Square
                                                                                            I still Enix
                                                                                                    think and
                                                                                                          it`s   friends and Riku turns against him.                   comes a nightly obsession. Soon, they’re joined
e iPhone 5S has some new color variations          Disney.
                                                    the best e
                                                              phonegame
                                                                     you is  can
                                                                               about
                                                                                 buy at a the
                                                                                          fourteen
                                                                                              moment.year old                                                          by their friends Nicki(Emma Watson),
(Source: imore.com)                                 boy called Sora, who has to save many different               Sora and his new friends get to Hollow Bastion,       Sam(Taissa Farmiga) and Chloe(Claire Julian),
                                                    worlds, because he is master of a mysterious                 where the great Ansem, a person who was very          who are equally impressed by celebrities and
Apple’s iPhone is one of the most popular and       key blade. e creatures he has to fight against              interested in heartless and the darkness, used to     their ability to rob them of their belongings. Ul‐
highly anticipated smartphones in the world.        are called “the heartless”, and they are destroy‐            live. Malefiz’ headquarter is also there. Riku        timately, the ‘Bling Ring’ would get arrested and
Apple says the 5S is “the most forward-thinking     ing the worlds, so they fade into darkness.                  steals Sora’s key blade and runs away, Donald         jailed for the break-ins and the of nearly three
iPhone yet” and “the best smartphone in the                                                                      and Goofy follow him, because they have to fol‐       million dollars.
world.” Whether you love or hate Apple, the                                                                      low the key. But Sora is very brave and also en‐
original iPhone revolutionised the way we view                                                                   ters the Bastion. He tells Riku, that the true        is movie seems very real, because it shows us
and use our phone. e release date for both                                                                      power of his heart comes from his friends and         pieces of the real 21st century. It shows us that
phones, the 5S and 5C, was September 20.                                                                         that he doesn’t need the key blade. In fact, he       there is a high number of young people who
                                                                                                                 manages to get the key blade back and Riku es‐        commit crime.
Design and Features                                                                                              capes.
                                                                                                                                                                       The ‘real’ Bling Ring:
We wanted a bigger screen, an improved cam‐                                                                      Aer that, the trio has to fight against Malefiz.
era and better battery life. Apple gave us a fin‐                                                                Hereaer, they face a very strange Riku, who is       Before Paris Hilton agreed to let Sofia Coppola
gerprint sensor, an improved camera, and a                                                                       obsessed with Ansem. Ansem tells Sora, that           film scenes for “e Bling Ring” in her
faster processor. Faster is better, especially                                                                   Kairis Heart is snared in his body and the key‐       mansion, she didn’t know much about how a
when battery life doesn't suffer. e iPhone 5,                                                                    hole of Hollow Bastion, which consists of the         group of San Fernando teenagers managed to
which launched last year, arrived with a 4-inch                                                                  hearts from the 7 princesses of hearts, can’t be      break into her home four years ago.
screen and diamond cut aluminium body. It`s                                                                      completed without Kairi’s. Sora uses Ansem’s
Apple’s way with it`s S phones, the iPhone 5S                                                                    key blade to set Kairi’s heart free and trans‐
shares the same design. At first glance it looks                                                                 forms himself in to a heartless. Kairi gets back
identical, but there are some changes in the col‐                                                                her heart and with the power of it, she can
or options. ere are new color variations now.                                                                   transform Sora back into a human. Sora, Don‐
e new gold option has been added, while the                                                                     ald and Goofy follow Ansem once again, to de‐
'black' is now a lighter 'space grey'. e silver                                                                 feat his plan of getting to Kingdom Hearts…
and white one we have, however, is exactly the
same.                                                                                                            I really like the game, it has a well-conceived
                                                                                                                 plot and interesting graphics. It’s one of my fa‐
It’s an angular, timeless design – elegant and                                                                   vorite games, because the storyline well written      e Real Bling Ring (Source:Policymic.com)
slim. In hand the cut aluminium feels premium                                                                    and you have many quests to do. e Enemies
and solid, but the iPhone 5S is far lighter than    Sora, the optimistic but naive hero of our sto‐              are kind of tricky and mostly really hard. e         She was questioned by police about the rob‐
most other new phones.                              ry with his keyblade. (Source wikia.com)                     worlds are colorful and big, there is so much to      beries, she says she never realized that the so-
                                                                                                                 explore. Combined with the music, there is just       called Bling Ring had been in her home six
e iPhone 5S’ improved camera is probably its       At the beginning, Sora has a strange dream, in               the right atmosphere. You really connect with         times. at was just one of the facts that came
biggest selling point. Cameras are becoming the     which it is predicted, that there will be some               the characters, feel their emotions and experi‐       to light aer she teamed up with Coppola, film‐
most important feature. A double LED flash is       special events soon. When he wakes up, he is                 ence the world with them. For example, Sora is        ing a short scene with her in the movie and al‐
next to the camera while on the front the screen    back on Destiny Islands, where he and his two                this naïve, young boy, who thinks no one will         lowing the filmmaker to use her actual home as
bezels are slim. A suite of new und useful up‐      friends Kairi and Riku live. e teenagers                    harm him intentionally. He thinks, there is no        a production location.
grades make the camera even better than the         dream of leaving the islands and discovering                 evil in the world - probably because he only
iPhone 5 ones. e pixels seesms physically big‐     the other worlds. ey make a ra and plan to                 lived on the islands.                                 “Sofia told me so many things I didn’t know,”
ger, but they are the same number as the iPhone     leave the next day.                                          And then there is Riku, who opens himself to          Hilton, 32, said on the red carpet at the film’s
5`.                                                                                                              the darkness and is very pessimistic, he is kind      Hollywood premiere on Tuesday evening. “I
                                                    But that night, suddenly a storm arrives and                 of the opposite of Sora. ere are many inter‐         didn’t know they tried to take my dog. I didn’t
e home button is detailed in a metal ring that     Sora tries to save the ra. However hundreds of              esting characters like this to discover, so it nev‐   know they were selling my things on Venice
provides a useful function, the Touch ID. is       heartless appear and the world gets destroyed.               er gets boring.                                       Boardwalk.”
is Apple's fingerprint sensor, a secret souce of    at night, Sora discovered that he is the key                I also really like the design of the characters.
clever scanning technology that amounts to a        blade master.                                                ere are so many details in it and it makes the       e Bling Ring (also known as Hollywood Hills
home button, that's now both capacitive and         Sora and his friends get separated into different             characters really lively.                             Burglar Bunch), were a group of seven
clickable. Scanning your finger takes the place     worlds. When he wakes up, he is in Traverse                  Because of the collaboration of Square Enix and       teenagers and young adults based in and
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around Calabasas, California. ey burgled the
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homes of several celebrities over a period be‐
lieved to have been between October 2008 to
unsinkable ship
August 2009. eir activities resulted in the
the of about $3 million in cash and
Zauner Marlene
belongings.  Much of the stolen property be‐
longed to Paris Hilton, whose house had been
burgled
RMS Titanic
         several
              wastimes.
                    a British passenger liner that
sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on
15 April 1912 aer colliding with an iceberg.
                                                     Snow White and
e sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of
more than 1,500 people. e RMS Titanic was           the 3 Dwarfs
the largest ship afloat (Length: 269m; Height:
53m; Breadth: 28m) at the time it entered ser‐       David Gibbs (Editor)
vice. Titanic was the second of three Olympic
class ocean liners operated by the White Star
Line, and was built by the Harland and Wolff          On Friday 30th September 2013, e curtain
shipyard in Belfast with omas Andrews as            raised on the opening and unfortunately only
her naval architect. Andrews was on the ship         night of the English Activity Week - Drama           e dwarfs return home from the mine           e wicked queen practicing her lines
during the sinking. On her maiden voyage, she        Group 1's adaptation of Snow White.
carried 2,224 passengers and the crew. But for
all the people, only 20 lifeboats were provided.     To a full house the play opened with the Evil
e White Star Line decided that only 20              Queen asking her magic mirror just who was
lifeboats would be carried, which could accom‐       the prettiest of them all? When she didn't get
modate 1,178 people, only one-third of               the answer she expected she sends the Hunts-
Titanic's total capacity.                            women off the the forest with her more attrac‐
                                                     tive step-daughter Snow White.
At 11.40 pm on 14 April (ship's time), lookout
Frederick Fleet spotted an iceberg immediately       However the Hunts-women is no James Bond
ahead of Titanic and alerted the bridge. First       and so Snow White escapes and ends up living
Officer William Murdoch ordered the ship to            with 3 dwarfs in a tiny cottage. Aer some
be steered around, but it was too late; the star‐    problems over who drank who's Baunti they
board side of Titanic struck the iceberg, creat‐     settle down in to the perfect patchwork family.
ing a series of holes below the waterline.           When the Queen finds out that her step daugh‐
Five of the ship's watertight compartments were      ter is still "Miss Fairy-tale 2013" she sets off to
breached. It soon became clear that the ship         murder Snow White herself.
was doomed, as she could not survive more
than four compartments being flooded. Titanic        e surprise ending featuring a certain English
began sinking. Less than a third of that people      Bard reciting King Lear, as well as the Dwarfs
on the Titanic survived the disaster. Some sur‐      superb singing made of a great play!
vivors died a few days or months aerwards.
In 1997 the movie “Titanic” was released by
James Cameron, that shows a fictional story on       5 STARS *****
the Titanic. e two chief characters are                                                                  e full cast and crew of Snow White
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.

                                                                                                                                                        Alice in
                                                                                                                                                        Wonderland
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                                                                                                                                                        With a tough act to follow aer Snow White,
                                                                                                                                                        the English Activity Week - Drama Group 2 de‐
                                                                                                                                                        cided to not go for a fairy-tale but instead some
                                                                                                                                                        real literature in the form of Lewis Carroll's
                                                                                                                                                        1865 classic - Alice in Wonderland.
                                                                                                                                                        By combining some characters and shortening
                                                                                                                                                        chapters, the group cut down the epic book to
e sinking of the titanic is still a large part of                                                                                                      just 9 scenes while still keeping all the impor‐
popular culture (Source:Fogmoviereviews)                                                                                                                tant bits. In between writing all the dialogue
                                                                                                                                                        and stage directions they also managed to pro‐
On 10 April 1912 Rose DeWitt Bukater                                                                                                                    duce props to bring the strange world of won‐
(Winslet) and Jack Dawson (DiCaprio) board                                                                                                              derland to life.
the Titanic, but at this time they don’t know
each other. e wealthy 17-year-old Rose                                                                                                                 e Story follows Alice down the rabbit hole
boards with her fiance Cal (Billy Zane) and her                                                                                                         and into this bizarre land of talking animals and
mother (Frances Fisher) to the maiden voyage         e cast of Alice in Wonderland                                                                     tea parties. Here she meets the Caterpillar and
of the Titanic. Rose has to marry Cal against                                                                                                           Cheshire Cat. ey eventually lead her to e
her will, only because he’s a rich man. On the                                                                                                          Mad hatter and here she finds out about her
first evening the woman meets the third class                                                                                                           quest to kill the Jabberwocky.
passenger Jack. Despite their very different so‐
cial status and the completely different lives that                                                                                                      e Climax is a fight to the death inside the Red
they lead, they fall in love. Jack gives Rose a                                                                                                         Queen's castle. Without wanting to ruin the
feeling that she missed at Cal. ey decide to go                                                                                                        ending, the result of the battle ends in regime
to New York together and start a new life. But                                                                                                          change in wonderland and everyone living hap‐
then the Titanic collides with an iceberg and                                                                                                           pily ever aer.
only Rose can survive.
                                                                                                                                                        All in all a wonderful story that was really well
Although the Titanic sank about 100 years ago,                                                                                                          written and acted out by the participants!
she affects our lives even today. It was an in‐
credible tragedy, 1,514 people lost their lives.
Some people still get goose pimples today, if                                                                                                           5 STARS *****
they are thinking back to this day.                  e Mad Hatter's Tea Party with e Cheshire           e Red Queen plays croquet against her sis‐
                                                     Cat, e Mad Hatter and Mr. Rabbit                    ter e White Queen
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