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Blessings

As my third your say about music, I'm going to analyze Blessings.

Big Sean, Kanye West and Drake reunited themselves to count their blessings and talk about their gratitudes.

The producer used trap beats and a dark/mysterious base for this song, and added a black and white thematic to make it more dramatic.

It belongs to Big Sean's album Dark Sky Paradise.

Big Sean introduces the song talking about friends who left him when he was broke and then came back when he got famous, like he said:

" I've done lost hommies who been with me since Edd, Ed n' Eddy 

Who flip like confetti"

and then finishes his first verse talking about not knowing what he would do without his crew. At his second verse, he talks about his life more specifically, and what he would do to keep his loved ones by his side.

Translated remarkable quotes from this song:

- I give whatever I'm worth, for my hommies who gon' go to hell and back for me, I'mma give 'em heaven on earth or a hell of a check, yeah whichever come first.

Yo doy por lo que valgo, por mis amigos que irian al infierno y volverian por mi, les daré el cielo en la tierra o un cheque de la hostia, si, lo que venga primero

-So every morning I'm up cause I can't let 'em down

Cada mañana estoy levantado porque no les puedo decepcionar

-No mistakes in life ever, it's only lessons

nunca hay errores en la vida, solo lecciones

Newborn found buried alive alongside Los Angeles area walking path

The crying coming from under a block of asphalt sounded like it was from a cat to Angelica Blount. But it turned out to be an abandoned baby that police say was deliberately buried under debris along a Los Angeles area walking path.

Blount was walking in Compton on Friday, when her sister Evangelina McCrary pointed the sound out to her.

"She told me, 'Can you hear the baby crying?'" Blount told. "And I said, 'I don't know; it might be a cat.' And my sister said, 'No, it's a baby crying.'"

They called 911.

Two deputies from the LA Sheriff's Department found the newborn under pieces of asphalt and debris inside a crevice.

Newborn was found under asphalt along popular Compton walking path

She was "cold to the touch" and wrapped in what appeared to be a hospital blanket, the sheriff's office said.

"There's indications that the child was born at a medical facility or at a hospital...because of the blanket," LA Sheriff's Dept. Sgt. Marvin Jaramilla told journalists on Saturday.

Paramedics treated her at the scene before transporting her to the hospital where she's listed in stable condition.

Police say the baby girl was born within the last 36 to 48 hours. She's lucky to be alive.

"We do know that if the child had spent the night there in those conditions the baby wouldn't have survived," Sgt. Jaramilla said. If the parents are found, they will face attempted murder and child endangerment charges.

Los Angeles County has a so-called "Baby Safe Surrender Program" that provides parents the option to hand their baby over at any LA county hospital or fire station, no questions asked.

"I don't know how someone would just dump the baby and throw them in that hole and forget about it," resident Angel Flores told KABC.

-Opinion:

It just don't amaze me. I've seen plenty of parents doing that same stuff. Leaving a baby in a box in the middle of the street, by the side of a river, etc... I don't even know how the child survived. The baby had just lived for 36-48h and was already facing something i've never fought against in my life. I hope LS police department find the responsible parents and do what they deserve.

Vocabulary

Facility: Instalaciones

Dump:Tugurio

Debris:Escombros

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/29/us/los-angeles-county-abandoned-baby-found-under-asphalt/index.html

Why slain Russian pilot deserves to be honored

(CNN)As a military analyst for CNN, I've found the anchors often ask tough questions regarding tactics, battlefield operations, strategy and political maneuvering associated with conflict. But Sunday morning, I was asked: "What is the protocol for the transfer of remains of the Russian pilot whose plane was shot down over Turkey?"

That may be the most difficult question I've ever been asked.

Mark Hertling

Watching an escorted fallen soldier returning home to family and friends is something I have experienced far too often. I keep a box with photos of 257 soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice under my command, and every day those pictures remind me of their service to country and of a life which ended too abruptly. That's why I became emotional commenting on the final flight of Lt. Col. Oleg Peshkov.

No matter your thoughts on Russian, Turkish or U.S. national strategy regarding the civil war in Syria and the fight against the terrorists of ISIS, Peshkov was a simple soldier -- a bomber pilot -- serving his state, and he deserves to be honored.

Russia will want to make Turkey pay (Opinion)

Unfortunately, given the circumstances, there really aren't any protocols. But we've learned Peshkov's body was prepared by an Orthodox priest near where he fell, and then taken on a flight from Hatay, Turkey, near where the body was recovered, to the capital, Ankara. Accompanied by a Russian military attache (who was likely a Russian colonel), he was met by the Russian ambassador to Turkey and the Russian Embassy staff upon landing in Ankara.

The flight will quickly leave Turkey for Russia, and I suspect Peshkov's family will meet him wherever he lands. There will likely be a bevy of media and scores of Russian politicians present. This is certainly not the same protocol afforded the hundreds of Russians soldiers who have fallen in Ukraine, because those are battlefield casualties that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not want publicly honored, or even known, by his fellow citizens.

Peshkov's arrival will certainly generate more anti-Turkish fervor, more Russian nationalism and continued support by Putin of Syria's Assad regime. The level of those emotions will be fueled by the factors associated with not just the shoot-down of the aircraft, but Peshkov's combat death.

Peshkov was the unfortunate pilot of an aircraft that served as the final straw for Turkey's patience. While there had been multiple incursions by Russian aircraft in Turkish airspace, and multiple warnings to desist, this Su-24 bomber would become the example for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to show he was serious about Turkish territorial integrity. The flight and shoot-downhave become the center of a political firestorm.

But it was what happened after the shoot-down that will contribute to complications 

between these two countries.

After successfully bailing out of his damaged aircraft, Peshkov was killed. According to video distributed on social media by a Syrian rebel group, Turkmen freedom fighters shot at the ejected pilots as they were landing on the border between Turkey and Syria. (CNN couldn't immediately confirm the video's claim.)

If the facts back up the video, they committed a war crime in their actions. Firing on an unarmed, parachuting pilot is an unmistakable violation of the law of land warfare.

There have been hundreds of political and military disputes between Russia and Turkey over the years. Some have been casus belli -- justifications for possible war -- while others have contributed to strained relations. The circumstances of Peshkov's death will certainly contribute to tension between Turkey's and Russia's bellicose and mercurial leaders. We'll likely see it played out in public this week in Paris.

But today is a day to separate the warrior from the war. On Sunday, Peshkov will return home to his loved ones and to the Russian motherland. For his family's sake, I hope for a dignified transfer of remains, and for his sake, I pray he rests in peace. Because that is what a fellow soldier does.

How is this not WWIII? Turkeys went crazy blowing up a russian jet, and now they got war with russia. In the other side we see ISIS atacking Paris, which will surely get help from the british and the americans. The russian Pilot got killed unarmed and that violates the law of land warfare. He will be back home at sunday to be buried.

Vocabulary:

Staff:personal

Fellow:compañero

Strained:tenso

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/29/opinions/hertling-russian-pilots-body-transferred/index.html

North Korea believed to earn a fortune from forced labor overseas, U.N. says

North Korea's catalog of abuses against its own people within the secretive country's tightly controlled borders has been widely reported. But Kim Jong Un's regime is also believed to be pocketing huge sums from tens of thousands of its citizens who are sent abroad to toil in forced labor conditions, the United Nations says.

The laborers are made to work as long as 20 hours a day without enough food and under constant surveillance, according to a new report from Marzuki Darusman, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea.

He told a news conference Wednesday that the practice has become more visible in recent years and that "the numbers have grown."

"I think it reflects the really tight financial and economic situation in the North," Darusman said.

The overwhelming majority of the workers are employed in North Korean allies China and Russia, according to the report. But the rest are spread across a range of countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

Harsh conditions, little or no pay

CNN reported on the practice in May, highlighting the case of a North Korean man who worked on a construction site in Kuwait for five months without receiving any pay. He eventually managed to escape his minders and take asylum in the South Korean Embassy.

His story chimed with those of other escaped workers who have told rights groups of long hours, little or no pay, no freedom and harsh living conditions.

Those who do get paid are believe to receive between $120 and $150 a month, but their employers "pay significantly higher amounts" to the North Korean government, the U.N.

report said.

Kim's regime appears to be orchestrating the system "to circumvent United Nations sanctions imposed on the country with a view to earning currencies," it explained, citing a 2012 report from a rights group that estimated North Korea was raking in between $1.2 billion and $2.3 billion a year from the scheme.

Much of the money generated by the workers is believed to be diverted to the regime's military and nuclear program, as well as to its elite inner circle.

Long days, no money and no escape: Life of a North Korean migrant worker

Companies 'complicit in an unacceptable system'

Governments in the host countries appear to be turning a blind eye to the abuses of the North Korean workers' labor rights, Darusman suggested.

He warned that companies hiring the workers "become complicit in an unacceptable system of forced labor."

"They should report any abuses to the local authorities, which have the obligation to investigate thoroughly, and end such partnership," his report said.

It estimated the number of North Koreans working abroad to be above 50,000, attributing the number to a 2014 study by the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. A South Korean government official told CNN earlier this year that the total is thought to be around 100,000.

The main industries employing them are mining, logging, textiles and construction.

Darusman said the overall human rights situation in North Korea remains "dire," adding that its government had declined or ignored his repeated requests to meet.

-Opinion:

North Korea is a country where it seems like the dictator feels hatred against his own people. Hard labour, slavery, small amounts of payment, etc... The U.N got to do something about this kind of abuse, although Kim doesn't seem to be a very diplomatic guy...

Vocabulary:

Circumvent:evitar

complicit:Cómplices

diverted:Desviados

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/29/asia/north-korea-un-forced-labor-overseas/index.html