Trump on muslim claim: "I'm not going to take it back"

Donald Trump is insisting he was right that thousands of Muslim-Americans in New Jersey celebrated 9/11, despite being confronted with lack of evidence he's correct.

For the second weekend, the Republican presidential front-runner repeated his assertion, despite city leaders and law enforcement officials saying large-scale public celebrations never happened, in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd.

"I have a very good memory, Chuck. I'll tell you, I have a very good memory. I saw it somewhere on television many years ago and I never forgot it -- and it was on television, too," Trump said.

The real estate mogul claimed he's heard reports of the celebrations in different New Jersey cities. He said his staff is looking for clips of television reports from the time that will prove his claim.

"I've heard Jersey City. I've heard Paterson. It was 14 years ago," Trump said. "But I saw it on television, I saw clips, and so did many other people -- and many people saw it in person. I've had hundreds of phone calls to the Trump organization saying, 'We saw it. There was dancing in the streets.' "

Trump also suggested the celebrations would have occurred because Muslims everywhere cheered the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

"You have a huge Muslim population between Paterson and different places and Jersey City -- an unbelievable, large population," he said, adding Muslims at soccer games and "all around the world" celebrated the attacks.

"Why wouldn't it have taken place? I've had hundreds of people call in and tweet in on Twitter saying that they saw it and I was 100% right," Trump said. "I saw it and so many people saw it, Chuck. So why would I take it back? I'm not going to take it back."

Trump also made another claim: That President Barack Obama's plans of allowing 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United States in the 2016 fiscal year is actually drastically lower than what Obama truly has in mind.

"I have it upon a certain amount of knowledge -- I'm very friendly with a lot of people on both sides -- that Obama's plan is 200,000 to 250,000," Trump said.

Donald Trump, one of the most horrendous candidate to be the president of the United States claim that the Muslim population of New Jersey were making fun of the 9/11, and because of "his good memory" he could remember that he saw on television that they were doing so. Now he and his followers are trying to find these hidden tv clips about it, so he can have a proof. He's been always that type of racist politician guy. Watch out Kanye West, you got some competition.

Vocabulary:

Assertion: afirmación

Host: anfitrión

Reports: Informes

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/29/politics/donald-trump-new-jersey-muslims-celebrating-9-11/index.html

A pair of cave lion cubs has been found mummified

After thousands of years trapped beneath the ice, their young faces are still covered in fur. You can even make out the whiskers on their cheeks and the tips of their sharp retractable claws.

Named for the Siberian riverbank where they were found, Uyan and Dina are the most complete cave lion remains ever discovered. They could prove key to learning more about a species that became extinct over 12,000 years ago.

Over the summer of 2015, flooding along the Uyandina River exposed the ice lens where the cubs were buried. By a stroke of luck, a team of contractors was in the area collecting mammoth tusks. One worker, Yakov Androsov, spotted the remains through a crack in the ice.

After so many years trapped in the harsh Siberian cold, the cubs are in surprisingly good condition."Their woolen cover, legs, tails, ears, eyes, and even moustaches were preserved," says Androsov.While they cannot say for certain how old the remains are, Androsov says previous findings suggest they are more than 12,000 years old."The most likely cause of their death is a collapse of soil, which walled up the lion's den," says Androsov.The cubs were probably between two and three weeks old when they died, as their baby teeth had not yet come through, according to Albert Protopopov, head of the Department of Mammoth Fauna Study at the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). They were the size of well-fed housecats, and he says it is unclear if they had opened their eyes for the first time.

It's really uncommon to find fossils of these kind of animals. Investigators do a really nice job by discovering from which race they are, how they died, and this group did an excellent job by mantaining these cubs in a good condition, and they've just been by the side of a frozen river for 12.000 years. Such brief period of time...

Vocabulary:

Cubs:cachorros

woolen:De lana

Harsh: Duro

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151119-first-mummified-cave-lions-discovered-in-siberia

Pusha T Calls Rap "A Sad Case Of Poor Business"

The Virginia rapper calls himself "last Rap superhero."

Pusha T is preparing the release of Darkest before Dawn, the prequel to King push.

In a recent interview with Billboard, the president of G.O.O.D music discussed the dark tone of the project, due out December 18.

"I was in a bit of an aggressive mind state [while recording the album] simply because I sort of feel like the last Rap superhero," he told billboard. "When you look at just the state of Rap [now], I feel like it's a lot of complaining and vulnerability, and rappers being victimized."

Pusha T says that Jay Z and Raekwon are some of his biggest influences. He explains his displeasure with the current Rap industry stems from the fact that these rappers did not dwell on emotions in their music.

"That's not the attitude that my favorites had and that's not the attitude that the greats had when I was coming up," he says. "These guys were really like superheroes to me. They dressed fresh. They rapped fresh. I thought they owned the world. I look at rappers now and it's like, man, it's just a sad case of poor business and the artistry is being questioned. It's just too much."

Rap nowadays is getting way out of line. It's all about good beats, and see how many prostitutes, drugs and money rappers get, in most of the cases. Pusha T and a couple more of rappers like Kendrick Lamar, The Game, etc... are exceptions which you can count with your ten hand fingers. He states that calling himself the last rap superhero was not intented, but sometimes while recording, you have to let your feelings overwhelm you and see how lyrics come out of your mind. He clearly don't wanted to say that he's above rappers like Jayz, who have been an influence in his career.

-Vocabulary:

Due: Debido a...

Displeasure: Disgusto

Dwell:Habitar

Basket personal story

So, as I mentioned last year, I've been playing basketball for 9 years already. When I arrived at Spain, the first thing I did was to search for a basketball team, and then, at school I heard some friends talking about their basket training schedule in Castelló, so I went there and joined the club. I was eleven, and really really bad, because back then, those two years playing in Brasil before travelling to Spain, I never took it too serious, never had an ambition to get better. Years passed and I changed a lot of team mates. I felt a bit sad when I had to change of category because I was one year older and had to go to a new Castelló team, but soon I got adapted to the new team, friends, etc... Since then, I've been a regular player, until this year.

After completing two years of junior category, I had to pass to the next one. which was supposed to be sub21, but luckly that year, the club didn't have a lot of players at these higher categories, so the high charges of castelló had a reunion about it, and then they decided to mix the ex junior players with  senior( category after sub21) players in a senior team. At this exact same moment, I thought it was a bad idea, because it is not really fair that players at the age of 18 had to play with men at the age of 30-40. After a couple a matches, I saw that the age really matters, and the experience that comes along with it as well, but it made me feel like it was some sort of challenge, so with some hard training and dedication, I saw how I could handle different kind of players, and do decent matches, and I'm really proud of it. And of this team.

Dorian Gray topic opinion

Being young is a gift that life gives us. It's the most important part of our life but I guess there are other things in the world besides youth. For Dorian, being young is what keeps his beauty on point, and he cares a lot about it, but what about someone who doesn't care about appearence? Or someone who wants to enjoy having responsibilities? In that case, Lord Henry is wrong, because it's all a matter of taste. Another exception to prove that Henry is wrong, are the people who gets old and somehow seem to escape it's flaws, or gets some benefit of it, like men whose grey hair makes them more attractive to some other's eyes.

Summarizing, there are other things  in the world besides youth.

Is humour necessary?

Now that's a good question. Is humour really necessary? In first place, the definition of necessary is something so important that you must do it or have it, unable to be changed or avoided, and I don't think humour fits in that definition, although it is very present in our lifes.

Despite the sentence I've made before, I think it is very useful. not necessary, just useful. Think about having a hard time or being the new kid in some school and you don't know anyone. In both situations it would be useful, to get over the hard time or to become more sociable. Not to mention, it has physical benefits( increases of endorphins, reduces pain or stress), cognitive benefits( increases creativity, improves problem-solving ability), emotional benefits( reduces depression, increases self-esteem), and social benefits( increases friendliness and attractiviness)...

In brief words, it is helpful and useful, not necessary.

Forever Young

Both women and men agree on the fact that woman are more under pressure to look younger, and that's confirmed by Penn Schoen Berland, who made questions to couples about their appearence. Women tend to waste a fortune on plastical surgery to look better than they were, and they repeat that same process until they become only plastic.
Some people just can't accept the fact that they're getting old. Beauty won't last forever and since you're young, you need to know that and get over it because that kind of superficial society we're living in is awful!

Mr. Schoen's research shows us how men are less interested in appearing younger or less  worried about their age, and at the same time, we're the ones who grow older better. Why? One example of it is the differemce between a man's gray hair, which is called distinguished, and in the other hand, the woman's hair, which is called a sign that she's old.

Ladies, don't spend your whole life trying to catch something when it is clearly always running from you.