20 year old model found dead in Paris apartment

In demand South Korean model Daul Kim, was found last thursday ( 19th of November) dead in her Paris apartment. French police are now saying that the cause of death was suicide. The young 20 year old model was found dead by her boyfriend just hours later. Kim had modelled for Chanel, Dries Van Noten and Maison Martin Margiela, and had her debut in Paris Fashion Week in 2007, according to fashion magazine Vogue.

Before her death, Kim aparently had a instant message conversation with a friend about depression and her abusive relationship with her boyfriend just hours before taking her life.

According to The Daily Beast:
She was depressed, she wrote, according to a transcript of the chat seen by The Daily Beast. She and her boyfriend had just had another brutal physical fight. She’d punched him in the face; he’d yanked her hair. But she was afraid to leave him, afraid to suffer the agony of being apart. The last time they separated, she hadn’t been able to eat, dropping from 112 to 99 lbs. Her friend begged her to leave town, book a job, call her mother. No, she said. She’d miss her dog. She ended the conversation abruptly, saying she was going off to clean the house.

The model's body went for an autopsy today, and the results are expected later this week. There are reports that Kim left a suicide note, however this cannot be confirmed. Daul's family is still questioning wether she did really commit suicide. Daul often wrote about depression and being overworked on her blog named " i like to fork myself."

Her agents at Next released a statement saying:

"She was a top model and a great friend to all of us at Next. Please respect her family's privacy at this time of sadness. We will all miss her very much."

RIP

Expression Reading

We had an assignment to try and tell what expression or emotion the news anchor was trying to portray. I decided to watch bbc live on my computer, at first I had to watch it for a while since there was this speaker that simply look bored to death. After about 5 minutes of watching him speak ( with no sound ) I could not really make out what he was really walking about, so I cheated a bit and put my headphones on and of course he was talking about something not so interesting, business. I later continued to watch the main news reporters and noticed how much they actually do use their body language, mainly they move their eyebrows a lot and lean on the table, but not in a messy way. I had never really analized how news reporters acted, therefore I found this activity quite interesting, each reporter had his or her own way of expressing emotion. Shifting their papers and moving their hands seems to be the basic or normal movement, but it is very obvious when a breaking news story comes in as both news anchor eyes go straight down to their papers looking for further details. As the lighter stories are being read you can see a slight smile in their faces, making these stories easily identifiable.

I will continue to watch news reporters and analyze their movements so one day I will be able to look as natural and comfortable as they do. :)

It's not always Bright in Rio

LIGHTS OUT!!!

( Av. Paulist in Sao Paulo) ( Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro)

18 states in Brasil suffered from a catastrophic blackout on the night of the 10th of November and early Wednesday morning. Main cities as Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo came to a full stop as traffic lights, 89 train stations, mobiles, households, restaurants and hotels lost their power. The police and fire-fighters were overwhelmed by the number of emergency calls about people getting stuck in elevators. The power went at 10:15 pm ( local time ) and lasted the whole night. 70 million people around the country were left withought power and were uncommunicated. It is said that this event was caused by a problem with a transmission line from the main power center in Itaipu, which Brasil also shares with Paraguay. Not only was there a problem with the electricity, but also this brought the problem of water. The police force warned citizens about leaving their house, since many attackers took advantage of the blackout to rob people. Three million students were also not allowed to return to school on Wednesday due to lack of running water.

Rio's mayor Sergio Cabral Filho sent in troops to northern favelas to help assure no drug wars would arise, since recently 40 people were killed during a fight. This blackout comes only weeks after Rio de Janeiro was nominated as the location for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
Madonna was also in Rio ( since she is due to mary brazilian model Jesus Luz, who is by the way only 22!!!) were having dinner at a posh japanese restaurant went the lights went out, however it did not ruin their dinner as they continue to eat using the light from a candle and their hotel ( Hotel Fasano on Ipanema) was on of the only buildings in the Zona Sul to have electricity, well she is paying around $32,000 a night!

Brasil has had other blackouts in the past during 1984, 1997, 1999 and in 2001 which also caused similar problems as this recent event.