eBay faces backlash on hack delays

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27517907

1) Do you use eBay and how often?
2) If you use it: for what? To buy something or to sell?
3) If you don't use it: why?
4) Do you prefer buy clothing\shoes\accessories in the Internet or you like shopping in real life?
5) Are there advantages of buying something online? Enumerate them.
6) Are there disadvantages of buying something in the Internet? List them.

Summary

Are Mobile Phones Taking Over Our Lives?

The headline of the article I have read is "Are Mobile Phones Taking Over Our Lives?". The article is written by Bethan Morgan and this is published in "British Council" on the 14 of July.

The article is devoted to problem such as dependence on the phone. According to the author in nowadays most of people use their smartphones every time everywhere. 

The author writes that use of a phone has lost its previous meaning. Earlier mobile phone  was used for receive calls and text messages. But in our days we use it for playing games, reading articles or checking new messages in social networks. The author says that people prefer chatting in Facebook, but talking to people ‘in real life’ is less preferable. Further the author says that using of old, basic phone  is really enjoyable. All you could do it on this phone is send text messages and receive calls. Therefore you spend more time in "real life". You are free from the Internet. You talking with real people and reading real book/newspaper.

The author comes to the conclusion that basic phones are better than smartphones. But people are so depended on their phones that they can't imagine their life without it. 

I personally don't have a smartphone and my life is really normal without it. From my point of view a smartphones have more disadvantages. I think that there is no need to overpay money for this kind of technology. We can use the Internet from the computer and talking with friend in real life.

Writing a story.

Do you know how your parents met? Recently I asked my parents about how they met. After they story I were agaze.

In the 80's my father served in the army. Mother studied at medical university. What could be a relation between them? They were at a distance of thousands of kilometers. They did not know anything about each other. And now I want tell you the most interesting part of the story.

Father's service in the army were placid. As it should be he woke up every morning, carried tasks and went to bed. So it has been for many months. Life was monotonous. Until the end of service remained few months. Seemed, what can go wrong? However, something very bad had happened with he. One day father went on military studies. After a couple of hours, when father carried out next tasks, he suddenly fell to the ground. One of his mates could tell by the slow soft whistle of his breathing that he had fallen unconscious. 

The next episode, which is remembered by the father was in hospital. Exactly in this moment my mother appears. Most of those who enroll in medicine university have completed the requirements for practice in a health profession such as medicine, nursing and pharmacy. Mom had practice as a nurse. After medical check doctors told to the father about appendicitis. And who could think, that mother will be appointed as the nurse for the father? Fortune or a matter of chance?

Mom took care of my father every day. In lenght of time, relationship between father and mother became stronger. They constantly communicated, mother didn't moved a step from father's side. Father reactivated and went back in military unit. But story doesn't end! They communicated through letters and after 6 months, when mother practice ended, father came for her.

Since the beginning of this history passed 29 years. My parents are still together. I think, it is destiny. Otherwise, why it happened that way?

Estonia and estonian people

Description

This picture was taken in the street. In the picture I can see man who is walking in the park. This picture was taken in autumn, because man is wearing warm clothes: coat, trousers, hat and boots. In my opinion the weather is not good. In autumn leaves falling down from the trees and it is getting cold. I think that man is delight in nature and he has good mood. But maybe he is sad, because he is walking alone in the park and think about his life or problems.

Description of pitcure

The picture was taken in the street, I think in Old Town of Tallinn. In the picture I can see a lot of people, may be some of they are tourists. They're watching shopboards with flowers, food and so on. People in the picture are wearing warm clothes: coats, jeans, jackets and shoes. That's why I think that this picture was taken in spring or autumn. The weather is good. It is sunny, but I think cold and windy. I can't see people faces , but I think that they're serious, cause they are look and decide what to buy. In the background I can see buildings of Old Town.

Legend of Cupid.

Cupid - the most famous symbol of Valentine's Day. This naughty little angel with a bow and arrows. Those men and gods, in which the arrow of Cupid falls, fall in love. In ancient Greece, Cupid was the analogue of the young son of the goddess Aphrodite, Eros. The Romans called him Cupid and they think that Cupid mother was Venus.

One legend tells the story of Cupid and Psyche. Venus did not like the unearthly beauty of Psyche, and she ordered Cupid to punish Psyche but instead Cupid fell in love with Psyche, and made her his wife. But since people can not look at the gods, Psyche did not know what it looks like her husband.

Psyche was happy until her sisters still have not convinced the girl to look at Cupid. Cupid chastised Psyche: he left the girl, and with it disappeared a beautiful castle, where they lived, and gardens. Psyche was left alone. In order to find her lover, she went to the temple of Venus. To destroy Psyche, Venus gave her some unrealistic targets, one more difficult than another.

Her latest assignment was to deliver the box to the underworld. Psyche had to get part of the beauty of his wife of Pluto, and put it in a box. During the trip, Vicky has repeatedly been on the verge of collapse. She was told that it is in any case did not open the box. But curiosity won cautious and Psyche opened the box. But instead of the promised beauty in a box was a dead sleep.

Cupid found her lifeless on the ground. It took her a dead sleep. Cupid forgave her, and the gods, admiring the power of love, Psyche, made Psyche a goddess