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A 12-year-old boy in the United States has been found guilty of murder. The child shot and killed his mother, Sara Madrid, 34, after an argument over his chores. He cannot be named because he is still a juvenile. The court heard he was so angry that he got his mother’s gun from her bedroom and shot her eight times. Ms Madrid’s partner, Alfonso Munoz, witnessed the shooting. He said the boy handed him the empty gun after he had finished shooting. Munoz told the court he taught the boy how to use the weapon for emergencies and for self-defense. Local newspapers reported that Ms Madrid did not get on with her son. Her sister told the court that Madrid had a quick temper and often yelled at, scolded and slapped the boy.
The future of the boy is now in the hands of an Arizona judge, James L. Conlogue. He will sentence the 12-year-old on January the 23rd. Prosecutors want the boy to receive the same sentence as an adult. However, this is impossible under U.S. law, which states a juvenile can only be held until he becomes 18. The boy's lawyer, Sanford Edleman, argued that the boy could not be tried as an adult because he was so young. Edleman said the boy did not even understand what was going on. He said the boy did not intend to kill his mother and that he only wanted to get back at her for scolding and slapping him. The judge ruled the case should stay in the juvenile court after a psychologist said the boy had suffered physical and mental abuse from his mother.

bonjour à tous les élèves

the curtain, the curtain, the curtain
the window, the window, the window
the whiteboard, the whiteboard, the whiteboard
the door, the door, the door
the light, the light, the light

Sulley is a monster and he lives at Monstropolis, Every morning, he wakes up at 5 past six and he gets ready for another day working at Monsters Inc.
Sulley does some push-ups,
He roars and roars. He practises his scaring. He wants to be the top scarer.
He brushes his teeth.
Then he sits and watches TV with Mike
After watching TV, they walk to work and they soon arrive at the factory where they are greeted by Celia, the receptionist. They go to the scare floor where they get ready to collect the children's screams to produce electicity for Monstropolis.

1) I’m a tall orange monster with a moustache,
I’ve got six tentacles for arms.
I’m a grocer
[pause]
His name is Tony
2) I’m a big white hairy monster and lives in the Himalayas. He likes making snow cones.
[pause]
My name is the Yeti or the Abominable Snowman
3) I’m a one-eyed monster with tentacles for legs and snakes for hair. I’m a receptionist
[pause]
My name is Celia
4) I look like a crab. I’ve got five eyes. I’m the boss.
[pause]
I’m Waternoose
5) I’m 2 years old and I call Sulley “Kitty”. I want to go home!
[pause]
I’m the little girl BOO
6) I’m a giant monster with blue fur and purple spots. I’ve got scales on my back. I’ve got two horns. I’m the top scarer at the factory
[pause]
I’m James P. Sullivan but my friends call me Sulley
7) My skin is green and I look like a ball. I’ve got a single big eye. I’ve got skinny legs and arms. I’m Sulley’s best friend
[pause]
My name is Mike Wazowski
8) I look like a lizard with purple and blue skin. I can change my skin colour like a chameleon. I can become invisible. I’ve got three pink antennae, four arms and four legs. I want to be the top scarer at the factory!
[pause]
I’m Randall

In the VIRTUAL world of GTA, what can players do?
Players CAN cruise around the ghetto,
They CAN rob stores,
They CAN beat up women,
They CAN get tattoos,
They CAN smoke drugs,
They CAN shoot cops and
They CAN hijack cars

In our REAL world, what can’t you do?
you CAN’T cruise around the ghetto
you CAN’T rob stores,
you CAN’T beat up women,
you CAN’T get tattoos,
you CAN’T smoke drugs,
you CAN’T shoot cops and
you CAN’T hijack cars

Some people say that unstable teens can mistake the virtual world for the real world and become violent.

Mélanie: So, hi Dennis! Can you tell me about
your locker? Do you have one?

Dennis: Yes, I have one. I don’t really use it, I carry
around a duffle bag.

Mélanie: Okay. Why don’t you use it?

Dennis: It’s… I don’t really go to my locker ‘cause
I don’t have enough time. We only have three minutes
to get to a class.

Mélanie: Okay, so can the lockers be far from the
classes that you have?

Dennis: They are very far. They’re across the school
from where we have classes.

Mélanie: So I assume that if you don’t use it, you
don’t decorate it either?

Dennis: No, mostly only girls do that.

Mélanie: Even when you were younger?

Dennis: Er, no.

Mélanie: Okay, thank you very much.

Dennis: You’re welcome.

Mélanie: So, Noelle, can you tell me about your
locker?

Noelle: I share my locker with my best friend
Amanda. Th ey usually don’t tell you… they tell
you not to share a locker unless you trust the person
because people usually steal things. And we usually
keep things, like, that are very heavy and stressing
on our back so that we don’t have to carry as much
as we walk around the school to our classes.

Mélanie: Like what?

Noelle: Like binders and textbooks that we don’t
need for the classes that we have and sometimes
we put our lunches in there too. We put our coats
there in the morning and our IDs. And she has the
top bunk where she puts her stuff in and I have the
bottom bunk where I put my stuff in.

Mélanie: Alright. And, do you decorate your locker?

Noelle: Yeah, we have some movie posters that we
put up and we have some photos that we took in
the photo booth.

Mélanie: Yeah, and do you need to… do you sometimes
disagree on the kind of posters that you want
to put in the locker?

Noelle: Hum, sometimes we do but we end up…
hum… we end up agreeing on one so we don’t have
to argue about it all the time.

Mélanie: Do you decorate the inside or the outside?
Noelle: We’re only allowed to decorate the inside
because if we decorate the outside they usually take
it out – the janitors, they take it off the locker.

Mélanie: Okay, thank you very much!

A New Yorker cartoon shows a tiny newsstand with a big sign. “Fred’s
Newsstand—,” it reads, “Forefront of the New Post-Industrial Information
Society.”
We’re all Fred, of course. The information society is a fact, and it
affects the work every one of us does, from building cars to selling newspapers.
As futurist John Naisbitt wrote, “The information society is an
economic reality, not an intellectual abstraction.” Yet most of us haven’t
learned the skills we need to survive and thrive in this new knowledge
economy.
This fact is particularly important because more and more of us—me
included—are entrepreneurs and “intrapreneurs.” For the small business
owner—or for the owner of “You, Inc.,” within a large business—the upside of the knowledge economy is the fact that the creation or communication
of knowledge does not require a large organization; the lone
David can compete effectively with the Goliath. For example, some of the
computer programming for a London cab company was done by a solo
entrepreneur working from his Indiana farmhouse. The downside, however,
is that the same standard of communication excellence is expected
from a one- or two-person operation as from a giant corporation with its
own communication department.
As revolutionary marketer Seth Godin has pointed out, much writing
now goes to its readers “unfiltered,” without an editor working on it first.
He continued, “The thing most people miss most is that they no longer
have an excuse. Without a publisher/editor/boss to blame, your writing is
your writing.”
So how do you compete? By being your own communication
department.
Begin by understanding the times we live in. One of the most perceptive
commentators on the knowledge economy is Alvin Toffler, whose
book The Third Wave outlines three times of major change in human
activity:
1. The first of these “waves,” said Toffler, came several thousand
years ago when hunting and fishing were replaced by farming
as humanity’s main work. In the resulting agricultural economy,
wealth consisted chiefly of the ownership of land.
2. The second wave happened only about 150 to 200 years ago,
when farming was replaced by manufacturing as our major economic
activity, at least in the Western world. (That revolution—
the industrial revolution—was not a bloodless one: the U.S. Civil
War was, to some extent, a conflict between a largely agricultural
South and an increasingly industrialized North.) In the resulting
industrial economy, wealth consisted chiefly of the ownership of
factories.
3. Now, said Toffler, a third wave is sweeping over us. Manufacturing
has been giving way rapidly to the processing of information as humanity’s major economic activity. As we have entered the
information or knowledge economy, wealth has come to consist
of the ownership of information—or rather, the ability to collect
and communicate information. James Champy was right when
he wrote in his book Reengineering Management, “Knowledge
is power, as the cliché has it. But knowledge is not easy to come
by. You earn it by thinking. And all we have to think about is
information. So make sure that the information ‘gets around.’”

1 They had all kinds of time to finish the project.
2 There are many different kinds of people in the world.
3 That is some kind of vehicle.
4 That is not true. I do nothing of the kind.
5 I’m kind of tired, aren’t you?
6 He used his merchandise in his store to pay in kind the debt he owed.
7 Thank you. That was very kind of you.
8 He gave a kind donation to his favorite charity.
9 Be kind to animals.
10 My boss was very kind about the mistakes I made.
11 He had many kind words of praise towards his new employee.
12 The mountain air is kind to those who struggle with the stress of the city.