diferences between blog and edublog

Blog is an online publication that present a comments system be able to the readers to establish a conversation between the author and other readers. this blogs help to the passive users to convert to active users. And the Edublog help to the teachers to interact dynamically with the students, also help to the students to present homeworks and projects.

By. Sofia Carrillo
      Aili Arias
        Claudia Flores
        Valeria Duran

Egypt calls for United Nations-backed military operation in Libya‏

He appeal came from Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi in an interview with a French radio station. Sissi said there was “no other choice” but to act in Libya, whose turmoil he called “a threat to international peace and security.” He spoke a day after Egyptian warplanes pounded Islamic State targets in Libya to avenge the group’s grisly murder of the 21 Christians.

Earlier this month, Jordan carried out a flurry of airstrikes in Syria after the Islamic State burned to death a captured Jordanian pilot. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have also participated in strikes on the Islamic State, which declared a caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq last summer.

The raids by the region’s militaries illustrate “the seriousness with which other nations, Arab nations, are taking this threat,” said a U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss military action by an ally. He said the Egyptian government had not provided Washington with advance warning of the strikes.

The United States and five other countries issued a joint statement Tuesday calling for a national unity government to be formed in Libya through talks that are being sponsored by the United Nations.

Those who seek to impede the democratic transition “will not be allowed to condemn Libya to chaos and extremism,” said the statement, signed by the governments of France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Britain and the United States. “They will be held . . . accountable by the Libyan people and the international community for their actions.”

Militias that emerged from the 2011 Arab Spring uprising have hampered efforts to build a viable state in Libya since the overthrow of dictator Moammar Gaddafi. A political and armed conflict has fractured the country and produced two rival governments.

Amid the turmoil, at least three jihadist groups pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in the fall. They have since expanded their control and even operate in the capital, Tripoli.

By. Sofia Carrillo 3°B

New York times newspapers

Exchanging Sword for Pen, Rodriguez Apologizes to Yankees and Fans

By DAVID WALDSTEINFEB. 17, 2015

TAMPA, Fla. — Preparing to make a highly scrutinized return to baseball after a long suspension for drug use, Alex Rodriguez issued a brief, handwritten statement on Tuesday afternoon to say he was sorry for his behavior.

It was Rodriguez’s first public comment on the matter since he issued a defiant statement in January 2014, the day his suspension went into effect. Back then, he said the charges against him were false. Thirteen months later, writing in cursive in an apparent attempt to add a personal touch, Rodriguez demonstrated some contrition.

While not directly admitting to the use of performance-enhancing drugs, the matter at the heart of his suspension, he tacitly acknowledged that the record 162-game penalty against him had been warranted and said that the misdeeds had been his own.

began. “I take full responsibility for the mistakes that led to my suspension for the 2014 season. I regret that my actions made the situation worse than it needed to be. To Major League Baseball, the Yankees, the Steinbrenner family, the players association and you, the fans, I can only say I’m sorry.

 

By: Amanda 3°B and Diego 3°A

Patriots staff member reportedly handed official unauthorized ball in AFC title game

You didn’t actually think you were free to again live in a world without stories about the Patriots tampering with footballs in the AFC championship game, did you? First of all, we’re still waiting for the NFL investigators’ account of whatever happened in DeflateGate, and now we have another report to dissect.

According to ESPN, during that Pats-Colts game, a New England locker-room attendant attempted to hand an official an unauthorized football sometime in the first half. Unlike what we’ve heard about DeflateGate, this football was meant for special-teams use, and it is unclear if it had been tampered with in any way, such as having been deflated.

A report by Kelly Naqi for ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” identifies the staffer as a 48-year-old named Jim McNally, who has worked at New England games for 10 years and has been assigned to the officials’ locker room since 2008. The report says that he has already been interviewed by members of the league’s investigative team.

Unlike footballs used by a team’s offense, which it gets to practice with during the week, special-teams balls are delivered directly to the officials before a game and unwrapped at the stadium. The NFL began this policy to prevent kickers from tampering with the balls in order to make them fly farther and straighter.

Those footballs, called “K-balls” because they are marked with that letter, come out of the box in a relatively slippery condition, so kickers often squeeze them and rub them into the turf before kicks, in an effort to rough them up a bit. A representative from each team is allowed to rub the K-balls a couple of hours before a game, and then officials check their air pressure and put them in a bag.

ESPN, citing “four sources,” reported that an official in the AFC title game got suspicious when McNally handed him a ball that was not marked with the “K.” That official then notified Mike Kensil, NFL’s vice president of game operations, who was at the game. From ESPN:

A source told Outside the Lines that Kensil decided to personally go down to the officials’ locker room at halftime of the Patriots-Colts game to check the game balls, in part, because of the suspicions McNally’s actions raised. …

One source said Kensil personally checked the PSI (pounds per square inch) levels of all 12 footballs the Patriots had for use on offense and found that 11 of those 12 were underinflated by “one to two pounds.” They were reinflated to the league-required level and were returned for use in the second half.

It is not known if McNally is the same Patriots locker-room attendant who was reported to have taken two bags of footballs into a bathroom before the game.

By. Baudel Ruiz  1°B

New York times newspaper

The State of Your New York Block

The State of the City speech, delivered each winter by the mayor, is a fine piece of political rhetoric and a time-honored policy platform. But it’s a misnomer: It doesn’t tell you what’s really going on out there. For that, you need to ask the people. State of Your New York Block

The State of the City speech, delivered each winter by the mayor, is a fine piece of political rhetoric and a time-honored policy platform. But it’s a misnomer: It doesn’t tell you what’s really going on out there. For that, you need to ask the people.

The State of the City speech, delivered each winter by the mayor, is a fine piece of political rhetoric and a time-honored policy platform.

But it’s a misnomer: It doesn’t tell you what’s really going on out there.

For that, you need to ask the people.

And what people know, in New York City, is their block, that mini-city of brick and mortar, friend and stranger, sidewalk and pothole whose every change, sudden or gradual, we note as we go about our days.

So as Bill de Blasio delivered his State of the City speech a couple of weeks ago, we asked readers to tell us the state of their blocks.

Taken together, they paint a vivid mosaic of a maddening, lovable place. Some writers echoed the same concerns the mayor raised about the vanishing of affordable housing as the city continues to gentrify at warp speed.

Others focused on annoyances that arrive weekly – the double-parking churchgoers that box in a whole block of cars on West 147th Street in Hamilton Heights -- or daily: “We have a major problem with rats on our block!” writes Caroline of East 76th Street.

Readers celebrated the joys of cooperation:

“We shoveled a neighbor's sidewalk,” wrote Mary Ann Rekuc of Ainslie Street in Williamsburg. “She brought us a thank-you gift. Another neighbor's son shoveled ours - as he passed by pushing snow he said ‘I'm on a roll - don't stop me now!’”

And they mourned the fraying of neighborly ties:

“The new tenants who are paying the new steep rents are not as friendly as the old ones, leading my son to conclude that rich people are not as friendly and nice,” wrote an anonymous correspondent on West 81st Street.

They cast a suspicious eye on local improvements:

“Of course the neighborhood is going to appear cleaner and look nicer when people are trying to profit from it,” writes Fernando Martinez of Washington Heights. “I’ve never seen my apartment building cleaner or more renovated. It is the intentions of these seemingly beneficial renovations that are questionable. They want to exude the aura of a higher end neighborhood, by smearing a little paint here and there and by altering the aesthetics of the neighborhood.”

And they issued tiny news bulletins from all corners. “We also have a new one-legged pigeon, George,” Ian Frisch of Green Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, announced on Twitter.

And even when they sang songs of woe, the chorus often sounded like home sweet home.

“My downstairs neighbors blast insanely loud music and have screaming arguments at all hours, and 311 doesn't do anything about noise complaints,” wrote Sam of 29th Street in Astoria, Queens. “The 114th Precinct has been beyond useless.

“Nevertheless, Astoria remains a great place to live, though I worry about being priced out"

By. Aili Arias 3°B

Sleeping With Sirens

                                          Stomach Tied In Knots 

                                   Sleeping With Sirens

 

 

Sugar-Maroon 5

                                    Sugar

Maroon 5

I´m Not The Only One

                                             I´m Not The Only One

Valentine´s Day

Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14. It is a festival of romantic love and many people give cards, letters, flowers or presents to their spouse or partner. They may also arrange a romantic meal in a restaurant or night in a hotel.

What do people do?

Many people celebrate their love for their partner by sending cards or letters, giving gifts or flowers and arranging meals in restaurants or romantic nights in hotels. People who would like to have a romantic relationship with somebody may use the occasion to make this known, often anonymously.

Public life

Valentine's Day is not a public holiday. Government offices, stores, schools and other organizations are open as usual. Public transit systems run on their regular schedule. Restaurants may be busier than usual as many people go out for an evening with their spouse or partner. Valentine's Day is also a very popular date for weddings