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Evil Islands Gameplay + Gua (en espaol!) 6: Island Orcs’ Mechanism, Magic Orb y Orc Document – Video

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Evil Islands Gameplay + Gua (en espaol!) 6: Island Orcs #39; Mechanism, Magic Orb y Orc Document
Gracias al nuevo mecanismo, podemos asaltar a los orcos isleos. He agrupado estas misiones porque tienen que ver con limpiar el mapa -The river and the islands-. Con esto slo quedan...

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Shetland Islanders fight plan to force children to boarding school

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Emily Johnson, 11, pictured with her mum Louise, says: 'It would be horrible. I'd be away in the hostel by myself' Photograph: Louise Johnson

Up to 112 children aged as young as 11 are set to be forcibly sent to boarding school under controversial plans by Shetland Islands council. The most radical proposal now under public consultation would see three junior high schools closed on the smaller islands by 2016, and pupils sent to board at Anderson high school on Shetlands biggest island, Mainland.

It would be horrible. Id be away from home in the hostel on my own, Monday morning to Friday afternoon, says Emily Johnson, 11. Id miss my family. I wouldnt be able to carry on with my knitting group. What happens if I turn ill? Now my mum looks after me. All this is worrying me already.

Emily and her brother Scott, 13, attend Whalsay schools junior high, along with their brother Ian, seven, who goes to the primary. Under proposals by Shetland council, the school could be closed, or at the very least lose its final year secondary 4 for pupils aged 13-14. There is an identical proposal for the island of Yell, which also has just one junior high school. Come next autumn, pupils on Unst will face the same threat as will children attending two remote schools in Sandwick and Aith on Mainland.

There is no other secondary provision on the island of Whalsay. If councillors vote to close the school, children as young as 11 would be forced to travel to Shetlands capital, Lerwick, and become weekly boarders.

Islanders are worried and angry. In recent consultation meetings on Whalsay and Yell, community halls were packed full of parents who made their distress clear to officials and councillors.

The feeling was totally unanimous against both proposals, says Lynne Wilson, a Whalsay parent and teacher at the junior high. Some were quite emotional. But it really did feel like knocking your head against a brick wall.

Shetland council claims its plans are intended to improve pupils education. Gary Robinson, independent leader of the council, says: What were offering is a better education than they would get on the islands. Since Scottish government reforms in 2010, local authorities must provide a wide range of vocational and workplace experiences alongside the standard curriculum in the final three years of secondary school. Robinson says offering quality placements and vocational training will be difficult enough on Mainland, which has a population of 19,000, let alone on the smaller outlying islands with communities numbering around 1,000 each.

But parents, who have formed a campaign group called Communities United for Rural Education (Cure), disagree. Education here works, says Louise Johnson, Emilys mum. This summer, the first cohort of secondary students in Scotland took the new national qualifications since the 2010 Curriculum for Excellence reforms. According to figures from Shetland council, Mid Yell and Whalsay schools outperformed average results for the rest of Shetland. More than 85% of Mid Yell students and 79.7% of Whalsay pupils passed the National 5 exams (the Scottish equivalent of GCSEs taken at 14) at grades A-C, whereas for Shetland overall 78.9% did. Wilson asks: Why would you force your children away from home, especially to a school where frankly theyll get a poorer result?

The parents argue that closing the schools on the smaller islands is all about making cuts, not about raising educational outcomes. Robinson disagrees. The reality is that this council has always prioritised education, and has always spent more than its got from government on education, he says. Central government hands over 29.5m a year for Shetlands education system. The council, he says, stumps up 48.5m that has to be found from somewhere. But Robinson has to admit that, with the councils grant reduced by 18% since 2010, like every other authority in the land we are having to reduce our costs. Would closing outlying schools cut educational costs? I do believe the savings weve estimated are accurate, he says carefully.

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Govt steps up patrols to curb illegal harvesting of coral

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The government has intensified surveillance in the Izu and Ogasawara islands after more than 200 vessels believed to be Chinese boats were observed in areas around the islands. They are believed to have been poaching coral to make jewelry.

On Thursday afternoon, a Japan Coast Guard plane observed 48 boats around the Ogasawara Islands and 164 boats in the vicinity of the Izu Islands.

On Friday, a Yomiuri Shimbun plane spotted a group of vessels near the Izu Islands.

The Izu Islands are closer to Honshu than the Ogasawara Islands, and experts say the vessels seen there are seeking to strike it rich in an area where coral has never been harvested.

Boats were observed in two areas around the Izu Islands - Torishima island, about 400 kilometers north of the Ogasawara Islands, and Sumisujima island, about 500 kilometers north of the Ogasawara Islands.

The 3rd Regional Coast Guard Headquarters deployed more patrol boats to crack down on illegal harvesting of coral to prevent the practice from spreading, according to the headquarters.

Crew members in the boats observed by the Yomiuri Shimbun plane were seen in work gloves, busy handling nets.

Although many of the boats appeared old, with some covered with rust, their crews seemed to gathering coral on a large scale with large devices that seemed to be radars and wire containers on the decks of their boats.

The price of coral that can be used for jewelry has jumped more than 100 times compared to that of about 40 years ago.

"We have expressed our dissatisfication about this behaviour to the Chinese government and requested that it not be allowed to happen again," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a press conference Friday.

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Evil Islands Gameplay + Gua (en espaol!): 1 Tutorial y explicacin del sistema – Video

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Evil Islands Gameplay + Gua (en espaol!): 1 Tutorial y explicacin del sistema
Jugamos a Evil Islands *lagrimita* me encanta este juego. About the intro: The transcription is rough, and probably inaccurate. If you notice them, please tell me.

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Tensions rise between Argentina and the UK over Malvinas Islands – Video

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Tensions rise between Argentina and the UK over Malvinas Islands
Argentina #39;s high representative for the Malvinas Islands, Daniel Filmus, flew to London earlier this week to release a new book about the war the two nations fought in 1982. His visit was certainly...

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Singapore private islands: Telunas, Batu Batu and Nikoi

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Paul Chai Nov 1 2014 at 1:15 PM

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The city-state is better known for its 50-year sprint to become an economic powerhouse of steel buildings and high finance than for lazing around on beaches (not surprising as they're almost non-existent and almost all made from trucked-in sand). For a quick getaway, expats and well-heeled locals head to a trio of private islands, so next time you head to the Lion City, consider swapping the shopover for an island hopover.

Telunas

Telunas Private Island has a wooden arm of 15 spacious over-water sea villas decorated in a disarming and original Cape Cod-weekender style but with an all-indigenous Indonesian flair. It makes sense when you discover Telunas was founded by American college friends Mike, Eric and Brad and their wives who came to the Riau islands in 2000 and just drifted along in a small boat until they found their perfect beach base. They set up Telunas Beach Resort as a social-impact project 10 years ago that's it opposite your new private -island stay and later expanded with this more upmarket property.

The best thing to do is just hang out and explore. The island's jetty ends in a seven-metre plunge that makes it perfect for jetty jumps with a gentle tide that carries you back to the steps so you can go again. A small scoop of beach runs from the jetty to the villas for sandcastles and burying small children up to their neck or you can try to find the "secret beach" an even more private sandy hideaway along a jungle trail past the accommodation.

Access involves a 50-minute ferry ride to Sekupang (Batam Island, Indonesia) then a small boat transfer to Telunas; a $75 round-trip. Villas start at $200 a night with dining an extra $75 for adults. See telunasresorts.com.

Batu Batu

The posh neighbour of Malaysian islands such as Rawa and Tioman, Batu Batu (real name Tengah Island) has 22 well thought-out villas that hug the coast of this mile-wide stretch of tropical perfection.

The island itself contains ideal conditions for snorkellers schools of tropical fish flit away in front of us as we float over bone-white brain coral sand for the less active, and an infinity pool for those in between.

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