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Good evening ladies and gentlemen of the press
You must have been extremely shocked to learn that Samantha Pawney age ten was kidnapped yesterday afternoon in Purley, Surrey.
You may have heard that Samantha was probably abducted by two white males as she was cycling home from her pony lesson.
According to our informers, the kidnappers must be somewhere near the Scottish border.
Our latest reports state they can’t be very far off.
We may have more interesting developments later in the day.
We might even be able to identify the two criminals.
We think they might be watching us on TV right now, that’s we asked for this press conference that is broadcast live.
So, here is my message to them on behalf of Scotland Yard and Samantha’s family: “You may have understood that you have no chance of succeeding, you must realise we are already on your track, you must release young Samantha before it is too late”
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your attention.

I'm from the U.S., so I would say the best holiday for me is Thanksgiving. It’s a fantastic tradition!

I enjoy watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade and the National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation on TV, sending and getting the most beautiful greeting cards from my friends and relatives. I also love having the traditional dinner with my family, that’s often the best meal of the year! And of course, I like the fact that families get together and talk about reasons why they're thankful for.

But the least funny aspect of that holidays is usually the overeating, when you feel sick after eating so much food! And finally, I’m not a vegetarian, but I always feel sad for all the turkeys being slaughtered and eaten.

Movie review. Gravity.

“Gravity” stars Sandra Bullock as Dr. Ryan Stone, a medical engineer working her first space shuttle mission alongside a small crew that includes Matt Kowalski (George Clooney), a veteran astronaut who regales the team and NASA’s Houston space station with his anecdotal failures in life, where the punchline is generally at his expense. There’s a reason he’s up here, 600 kilometers above Earth, away from the human population.

But Stone has her own reasons to escape the world. Her 4-year-old daughter died in a freak schoolyard accident, and she hasn’t yet come to terms with the loss.

While repairing the shuttle on the eve of Kowalski’s retirement, Houston warns the team of a cluster of debris on course to crash into the spacecraft. Sure enough, the debris swiftly swoops in, ravaging the shuttle, leaving Stone and Kowalski the sole survivors of the mission without a craft to carry them. They’ve also lost contact with Houston.

walk / work
hit / heat / heart / hat / hurt
but / bad / bat / bed / bet / bid / bit
no way / Norway
pitch / peach
board / boat / bought
six / sex
cheat / cheek / chick

1/2
1/3
2/3
1/100

105
110

50.15

3×2=6
60÷5=12

1980s
November 2 2013

in my late 20s
in my late 10s

Here the adolescent is looking at the dining car ticket trying to figure out the bill. The boy is trying to behave like a mini-adult. Yet we can notice that he can't place his feet flat on the floor so we can deduce that he is very young. On the right side of the picture there is a porter who is smiling and patiently waiting for the boy to pay the bill.

The painting features a mother with her child. He is lying across her lap. She is holding a silver hairbrush in one hand and she is reading a child psychology book with her other. There are different objects scattered on the floor: a broken vase, a shattered mirror, a destroyed clock, and a hammer.

The painting depicts two women who are fixing a flat tyre. The women are wearing white dresses, yet they are lying on the ground to change the flat tyre. They are in the front of an old house. There is trash around the foot of the house and goats are running around. A man is lounging on the front porch of the house as the two women are getting their hands dirty with the repair of their vehicle. The man is not helping the women.

In this painting the young girl is holding her doll up to the doctor. He is using his stethoscope to examine the doll. The girl is wearing a coat, a scarf, mittens and a hat. Maybe she is sulking. She is looking at the doctor because she is probably worried about her doll.