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Future in 20 years by Santi

2008-09-22T14:28:00.000-07:00

How will technology change our lives in the next 20 years?

By Santiago Gutiérrez

Introduction: In this presentation I´ll give my opinion of “how will technology change our lives in the next 20 years”.

We don´t really know what will happen in the next 20 years, but I think that the world will change a lot. In my opinion there will be new discoveries, but I think that a bad side of the technology is coming closer. I mean that with all this new products like the Ipod, our lives are changing. I think that we can not depend if one person will call us or if we have the last music on our Ipods.

In my opinion life before was better in this aspect of life. I´m not in opposition with the technology, but i´m in oppisition with how this new products are changing our lives.

Aspects of life: How will technology change our lives in the next 20 years?

I think that in the next 20 years technology will change our lives in different aspects of our lives. For example, I think that physic-sedentary will increase. With all this new products like the Play Sation 3, the Wii console or the Xbox, people are exposed to addictions. In several times the children prefer to play one of this consoles instead of doing outdoor activities. In other aspects of our lives, technology will be an illness. All the people want more and more technology and this ocasionate dependeces to, for example, the cell phones.

How will transport change in the next 20 years?

My ideas about this topic are a little bit “crazy”. I think that in the next 15 years will exist flying cars. Why not? If many scientists could creat a particle acelerator to confirm the theory of the creation of the World, they would be able to create flying cars.

In my opinion all this inventions are changing the world. If we compare life 60 years ago with life today, we can say that all has changed and is continue changing. In the next 20 years will be transports (so much planes and helicopters like cars and motorcycles) in all sides of the world and this situation will ocasionate chaos.

I think that technology will be the end of the world.

Conclusion:

With this work I can see how technology influences in our lives. In many cases technology helps to discover the world but not always. Finally I want to say again that technology will be the end of the world.

Santi :)

How will life change in the next 20 years ??

2008-09-18T19:59:00.000-07:00

Okey,
I want to say the same thing that I have read in the other posts. We really can´t find a perfect answer to this question because we really don´t know what would it happen in 20 years.
In my personal opinion I think that the world will change a lot in this short period of time. Some things will become better and other worse. For instance people is depending everytime more and more in technology. Some of them can´t even live without them. They think they have to be always in contact with technology. If know is people depending on all this mobile phones, notebooks, Ipods, etc, what would it happen in 20 years? Maybe people will have their mobile phone incorporated in their brain or something like that. I really don´t want to thing much about that. I rather prefer to enjoy the present instead of been always thinking on what would it happen to the world in the future.
But we also have to talk about the good things. Maybe there will be new medicines and operations, common things that could help the people in the normal life.
It will be very interesting because in 20 years we will see if we were right with our predictions or completely wrong. We are the only responsable of the Earth. So if we don´t take care of it we will have a lot of problems.

Luquitas

How can our life change in the next 20 years?

2008-09-15T19:45:00.000-07:00

Well, when we talk about how will technology change our lives in the next 20 years, we can´t make an exactly answer.

Nowadays the technology isn´t be able to know all about the future, and scientists haven´t a good ideea about how can change our life in the next 20 years. But with the time the technology will know more and more about our future.

About the health, today it is better than 10 years ago, the doctors and scientists had found a lot of cures for difficult illneses. It can change a lot because each year we found new threatments and drugs. But the problem is that we are having new illneses and is difficult to find a good cure for each illnes. So if we want to save the ill people we have to look for new cures using the technology. However natural cures are better than technology cures.

About the transport in 20 years, it can change a lot, because each year we find new cars for example. And today in european countries exist better transports than in Argentina. There you can find high-speed trains or really big plains. In my opinion the transport in the next 20 years will change our life, because we will have no problems to go to a far place, it will be easier to travel. But probably all these new transports will contaminate the environment and it will damage the population.

The most important topic that will change in the next 20 years is of course the technology. Each day we have a new type of mobile phones, or Ipods or mp4. So if we could made this technological objects, we will find a lot of new technology. The problem of the technology is that with the time the people is adict at mobile phones or for example TV, computer, Ifon and others. It isn´t good, that people miss the technology all day and they can´t do anithing with out it.

Long before people live with out technology, they live very good and it was normal live with out it. But today people depend on the technology.

And I don´t know how can this problem, that we are all included, finish. And this is the fear of not much people, well few people.

Danii

How will climate change in the next 20 years?

2008-09-09T06:42:00.000-07:00

I think that this is a topic that we don’t know what it would happen because is something that it is really relative. But with the things that happen nowadays, there are some things that you could predict.

We know and we see that in these days natural disasters are more common than in other years.

I read an article that talk about this, and I think that there are some things that are really true.

In the article says that climate will change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters. The document says that the huge change that will be with the climate will let the world adrift. The reason off this idea is that humans don’t know how to care our natural resources and this make that the earths have different landscapes and different spaces. The water on earth is a good example. There are some places where there is more than enough water but if humans don’t have special care it will be not sufficient not even for the basic needs.

But the problem of this is that these problems will modify our lives and the lives of all the live beings. It sounds selfish but it’s true, we are persons than needs water to live and more things to have a healthy life. Not to talk only about water I will talk about green spaces. Every day cities are bigger and bigger and the only green that you have it’s a tree with two branches and there are with out life and really ugly. We have to know that the more green spaces that we have the more oxygen we have. And this brings not only consequences in our health it will make us be more nervous because when we go to green spaces where the only thing that you hear are little beards you can relax and be quiet. But the only option that we have is to start changing ourselves. Be have to think that in the next 20 years will be here to see how it would earth be. So in conclusion we need to be more conscious of what we do.

Aye :D

2008-09-07T19:04:00.000-07:00

For all those sitting for the German exam!
Love Ana Claudia

New Zealand

2008-08-13T14:29:00.000-07:00

New Zealand is a country in Oceania is located in the southwest Pacific Ocean comprising two large islands, North Island and South Island, along with other smaller islands. The name is "land of the sea”.
The North Island is the most populated because the people make comercial activities, while the South Island is more rich in . The capital is Wellington.
The climate in New Zealand is basically temperate fresh warm temperate.
Because of their isolation from the rest of the world, New Zealand has an extraordinary endemic flora and fauna.
Previously, the dominant vegetation was mixed forest of evergreen, with thick undergrowth towns of mosses and large ferns primitive However, the dense forest survives only in national parks and nature reserves.
The fauna is even more surprising that the flora, until approximately the late eighteenth century lived in New Zealand territory some of the largest known bird, the moa giant, In the thick forests still remain curious kiwi, kea (parrot), Kakapo (bird). The only native mammals are two species of bats. There existed the biggest highlights cricket in the world (almost the size of a mouse). The Tuatara is a reptil and is the only animal that has a "third eye".
Ok thats all!
I wrote about New Zealand because I want to go there, so I hope you liked it.
Bye

Danii

Free post-- Avril Lavigne

2008-08-12T10:28:00.000-07:00

Avril Lavigne was born in Belleville, Ontario on September 27, 1984,the daughter of Judy and John Lavigne.She has an elder brother, Matthew, and a younger sister, Michelle.^[25] Lavigne's mother was the first to spot young Lavigne’s talent. At the age of two, Lavigne began singing along with her mother on church songs. The family moved to Napanee, Ontario, when Lavigne was five years old.

At the age of sixteen she was signed by Ken Krongard, the artists-and-repertoire (A&R) representative of Arista Records, who invited the head of Arista, Antonio "L.A." Reid, to hear her sing at the New York City studio of producer Peter Zizzo.
She then completed work on her first album, Let Go. The Matrix, who worked extensively with Lavigne on the album, commented on her songwriting, saying, "We had a fabulous and unique experience with Avril, who was then a 16-year-old rapidly growing songwriter with tremendous raw talent.
Let Go was released on June 4, 2002 in the United States, it has reached number two there and number one in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. This made Lavigne, at seventeen, the youngest female soloist to have a number-one album in the UK up until that time.
Lavigne was named "Best New Artist" at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, won four Juno Awards in 2003 (out of six nominations), received a World Music Award for "World's Best-Selling Canadian Singer", and was nominated for eight Grammy Awards, including "Song of the Year" for "Complicated" and "Best New Artist".

Lavigne's second album, Under My Skin, was released on May 25, 2004, in the U.S. It debuted at number one in the U.S., the UK, Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Ireland, Thailand, Korea and Hong Kong and sold more than 380,000 copies in the U.S. in its first week.
Lavigne won two World Music Awards in 2004 for "World's Best Pop/Rock Artist" and "World's Best-Selling Canadian Artist". She received five Juno Award nominations in 2005, picking up three, including "Fan Choice Award", "Artist of the Year", and "Pop Album of the Year". She won the award for "Favorite Female Singer" at the eighteenth Annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.

Lavigne's third album, The Best Damn Thing, was released on April 17, 2007 and debuted at number one in the U.S. The album was produced by Dr. Luke, Lavigne's husband Deryck Whibley, Rob Cavallo, Butch Walker and Lavigne.^[40] Travis Barker recorded drums for the record. The first single from the album was "Girlfriend", which became Lavigne's first single to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

Avril is currently on her tour "The Best Damn Tour" promoting the album and traveling the world. The tour will end in September after the Japan tour dates.

Noelia Stocker

History of the Olympic Games

2008-08-10T14:14:00.000-07:00

Hello, I´m going to talk about the history of the Olympic Games. I hope you´ll enjoy my post.

Since it began, more than two thousand years ago, the Olympic Games have been the competition grounds for the worlds greatest athletes.
In 776 B.C. the early Olympic Games began in ancient Greece. The prize the winners received included free food and lodging for life. Winners were mentioned in poems, their figures set in sculpture, and their achievements known throughout Greece. To put it simply, winning the Olympic games made you a hero.Even being at the Games was an honor. People from Italy, Sicily, Asia, Africa, and Spain all made the long journey to Olympia. All the famous people of the time attended the Games.
Originally there was only one race, a sprint, and the prize for the winner was an olive wreath. As time went on, other races were added, as were other sports, including boxing and wrestling. Among the more unusual events were the race in armor and the apene race, in which a chariot was pulled not by horses, but by mules.

Luquitas

McDonald's

2008-08-10T13:20:00.000-07:00

Mcdonald's is a famous restaurant chain established in the United States and specializes in fast food. It's mascot is the clown Ronald Mcdonald. It's one of the most famous companies in the world.

The companie began in 1940 with Dick and Mac Mcdonald, who in 1948 introducted the fast food and in 1955 they made their first frabchise, assumed by the executive Ray Kroc.Over the years it has transform in one of the most reconised fast food restaurnts over the world becoming a symbol of the United States.

The first latinamerican country to have Mcdonald's was Costa Rica in 1970.In Mexico opened in 1985 at south of Mexico City, in 2007 there are almost 335 stores over Mexico.In Argentina opened in 1985 in Buenos Aires Cabildo Avenue. In Venezuela the first McDonald's was opened on August 31 of 195 in Caracas.In 2007 there were 130 restaurants over the country, and 55 of them are in Caracas.In Chile opened in 1990,in Uruguay in 1991 at the Montevideo Shopping, in Colombia in 1995 in Bogota Center and today it there are 20 stores only in the capital. In Peru it opened in 1996 and in Ecuador in 1998.

By Makii

Free post by Marianela

2008-08-09T19:46:00.000-07:00

The story of the cigarette:

The first Europeans who arrived to America saw that the natives were smoking leafs of tobacco, so they inserted this practice in Europe in the century XVI. But in the century XX this modal change because each smoker consumed more than a thousand of cigarettes in a year. The society thought that the tobacco take out stress and it didn’t have injurious efects. During the II Mundial War the doctors recommended to send cigarettes to the soldiers.
But, the scientifics don’t take a long time to realize that the Cancer lung had been increased in 1930. The experimental studios with animals’ demonstrated that lot of the chemical substances what contain the cigarettes’ smoke are cancerous.

The first measures:

• In 1964, the cigarettes’ packet included an warning.
• In 1969, this warning bolstered up until been in this way: “The Sanitation Authorities advised that the tobacco damage seriously the health”.
• In 1971, prohibited cigarettes’ publicity in radios and televisions.
• In 1970 y 1980, lot of towns and states approved laws what demanded reserved spaces for smokers in public and work places.
• In 1990, a federal law prohibited to smoke in all national flights what last at least of six hours.

Ana Claudia: This post is actually Marianela's, she couldn't post it, so I am doing that for her. Bye!

Volleyball :D

2008-08-05T15:44:00.000-07:00

hello everybody!

Today's post is going to be about my favourite sport, the volleyball. I've been practicing it since i was 11 and i hope i'll enjoy playing it for many more years!

Volleyball is an Olympic team sport in which two teams of six active players, separated by a high net, each try to score points against one another by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.
The complete rules of volleyball are extensive, but in general, play proceeds as follows: points are scored by grounding the ball on the opponents' court, or when the opponent commits a fault. The first team to reach 25 points wins the set and the first team to win three sets wins the match. Teams can contact the ball no more than three times before the ball crosses the net, and consecutive contacts must be made by different players. The ball is usually played with the hands or arms, but players can legally strike or push (short contact) the ball with any part of the body.
Through time, volleyball has developed to involve common techniques of spiking, passing, blocking, and setting, as well as specialised player positions and offensive and defensive structures. Because many plays are made above the top of the net, vertical jumping is an athletic skill emphasised in volleyball. This article focuses on competitive indoor volleyball, which is carefully regulated and played indoors. Numerous variations of volleyball have developed for casual play, as has the Olympic spin-off sport beach volleyball.

Well, thats all!

I hope you enjoy it!

See you!

This is my and my team previous to a match!

I'm in the back-left playing around with the ball :P

bye!

Fran Contin

Free Post =D

2008-08-04T10:14:00.000-07:00

Well here is my Free post and i'm going to talk about Snowboarding.

The first modern snowboard was arguably the Snurfer (a portmanteau of snow and surfer), originally designed by Sherman Poppen for his children in 1965 in Muskegon, Michigan. Poppen’s Snurfer started to be manufactured as a toy the following year. It was essentially a skateboard without wheels, steered by a hand-held rope, and lacked bindings, but had provisions to cause footwear to adhere.

During the 1970s and 1980s as snowboarding became more popular, pioneers such as Dimitrije Milovich, Jake Burton Carpenter (founder of Burton Snowboards from Londonderry, Vermont), Tom Sims (founder of Sims Snowboards) and Mike Olson (GNU Snowboards) came up with new designs for boards and mechanisms that had slowly developed into the snowboards and other related equipment that we know today.

Dimitrije Milovich, an east coast surfer, had the idea of sliding on cafeteria trays. From this he started developing his snowboard designs. In 1972, he started a company called the Winterstick, which was mentioned in 1975 by Newsweek magazine. The Winterstick was based on the design and feel of a surfboard, but worked the same way as skis.

In the spring of 1976 Welsh skateboarders Jon Roberts and Pete Matthews developed a Plywood deck with foot bindings for use on the Dry Ski Slope at the school camp, Ogmore-by-Sea, Wales. UK. Further development of the board was limited as Matthews suffered serious injury whilst boarding at Ogmore and access for the boarders was declined following the incident. The 'deck' was much shorter than current snow boards. Bevelled edges and a convex, polyurethane varnished bottom to the board, allowed quick downhill movement, but limited turning ability.

In 1979 the first ever World Snurfing Championship was held at Pando Ski Lodge near Grand Rapids, Michigan. Jake Burton Carpenter, came from Vermont to compete with a snowboard of his own design. There were many protests from the competitors about Jake entering with a non-snurfer board. Paul Graves, the top snurfer at the time, and others, advocated that Jake be allowed to race. A modified division was created and won by Jake as the sole entrant. That race was considered the first competition for snowboards and is the birth of what has now become competitive snowboarding.

In 1982 the first National Snowboard race was held near Woodstock, Vermont at Suicide Six.

In 1983, the first World Championship halfpipe competition was held at Soda Springs, California. Tom Sims, founder of Sims Snowboards, organized the event with the help of Mike Chantry a snowboard instructor at Soda Springs.

Snowboarding's growing popularity is reflected in its recognition as an official sport: in 1985, the first World Cup was held in Zürs, Austria. The International Snowboard Association (ISA) was founded in 1994 to provide universal contest regulations. Today, high-profile snowboarding events like the Olympic Games, Winter X-Games, US Open, and other events are broadcast worldwide. Many alpine resorts have terrain parks. The sport has also had an impact in countries that are largely without snow, such as Australia.

Anorexia and bulimia

2008-08-03T17:57:00.000-07:00

Anorexic people are afraid to get fat, they want to be thin and have a perfect figure that’s why they are to much concentrate with their weight and their look. They are always cold people and they like to be alone, avoiding contact with friends and relatives.
Anorexia starts when there is a crisis of personality or problems with the family. Most of the anorexics are women and they try to improve themselves more and more, controlling their weight and vomiting are the most important events in their life.Those that vomit have a different disease, call bulimia. This disease is which they eat compulsively and soon they vomit it.
It usually affects in people before de age 25 (usually in adolescent age, between 15 an 18 years). Studies have show that the 5% adolescent population is affected by alimentary disorders.

Anorexics Symptoms:

1.- Don’t want to keep their weight
2.-Vomitate
3.-Start eating less and less
4.- Can’t concentrate in their studies
5.- Lose their menstruatin
6.- People feel cold, lose their hair...
Etc...

Anorexics Treatments:

• The best treatment is a group therapy
• Talking about the problem
• Help of the family
• And the more important is adquiring the right eatingattitude

Bulimia Symptoms:

1.- Eating with out control
2.- Feeling that it’s impossible to stop eating
3.- Fasting to compensate for previous over eating
4.- Inducing vomits that are denied
5.- Abusing of laxatives and diuretics
6.- Problems with theeth
7.- Changes of humor and deppresions

Bulimia Treatments:

• The best treatment is group or individual therapy
• Then, adquiring the right eating actitude
• The bulimy there is a pharmacologic treatment
• The most affective are antidepressants

Spinetta- By Marcos

2008-08-03T17:45:00.000-07:00

Luis Alberto Spinetta (born January 23, 1950), is an Argentine musician. He is one of the most influential rock musicians of Latin America, and together with Charly García is considered the father of Argentine rock. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the residential neighbourhood of Belgrano. As a kid he listened to all kinds of music: folklore and tango, and a little bit later, rock. As with almost every other rocker of his generation, The Beatles

would change his life. In 1967, in the midst of a repressive political climate, he formed a band called Almendra with school mates.

Contrasting with the backwards and authoritarian government of General Juan Carlos Onganía, Argentina and especially Buenos Aires was undergoing a cultural blossoming based on new art expressions; the new generation, the sons of the middle class, was immersed in an effervescence that would not reappear in Argentina until 1983. Spinetta was part and later an exponent of that blossoming and rebellious youth that would express itself both through the arms and the arts. Spinetta devoted fully to the latter path, although he briefly became involved with left-wing political movements.

It was 1969 and his band, "Almendra", recorded their first album. The band started recording and playing intensely and it became successful almost overnight. Almendra composed its own songs and the lyrics were in Spanish (something radically new). The subtlety and beauty of their sound would be one of the milestones (maybe the first) of Argentine rock. After two albums that enjoyed radio diffusion and deserved fame, the band split. Spinetta composed and recorded a new solo album, but an inadequate environment (he would later say that the mood of Argentine rock and rockers of those times were too "heavy" and negative for him) and the vast changes that success effected on his life made him leave the country.

After a lengthy stay in Europe, he returned to Argentina and formed a new band: "Pescado Rabioso". It was destined to be as mythical as Almendra. With a far more powerful sound and expressing the tension in the streets of an increasingly violent Argentina, Pescado recorded its first album in 1972. It was both a continuation of the creative stream of Spinetta and a drastic change in the style of his music and lyrics. The band recorded a second album; although a third one carried its name, Pescado was by then dissolved; Artaud, recorded in 1973 and mostly a solo album by Spinetta, was a major breakthrough. Partly based on the writings of Antonin Artaud, Spinetta exorcised many of the demons of his past in this album. This process would open the door to a new era in his music.

In 1974 he formed a new band, "Invisible". With his new band he recorded three albums; Invisible, Durazno Sangrando (together with Artaud, hailed as his best album ever), and El Jardín De Los Presentes. With Invisible, he left the powerful and rough sound of Pescado; the new tunes were more harmonic, soft and mellow, yet his work remained essential and revolutionary. Following this line, he embarked on a solo project, A 18´ del Sol, after dissolving Invisible in 1976–77. By then, ten years later after starting his career, his style had become a delicate amalgam of old and new; the old pop and (proto) heavy rock had merged with various elements of jazz and bossa nova. That unique flavour would become his style during the next half decade.

Eiffel Tower

2008-08-03T17:12:00.000-07:00

i will talk about the EIFFEL TOWER becouse is something that I admire a lot.
:)
Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, the Eiffel Tower is the tallest building in Paris and one of the most recognized structures in the world More than 200,000,000 have visited the tower since its construction in 1889, including 6,719,200 in 2006, making it the most visited paid monument in the world. Including the 24 m antenna, the structure is 325 m high (since 2000), which is equivalent to about 81 levels in a conventional building.

Eiffel Tower October 2007
When the tower was completed in 1889 it was the world's tallest tower — a title it retained until 1930 when New York City's Chrysler Building (319 m — 1,047 ft tall) was completed. The tower is now the fifth-tallest structure in France and the tallest structure in Paris, with the second-tallest being the Tour Montparnasse (210 m — 689 ft), although that will soon be surpassed by Tour AXA (225.11 m — 738.36 ft).

Eiffel Tower from the neighborhood.
The metal structure of the Eiffel Tower weighs 7,300 tonnes while the entire structure including non-metal components is approximately 10,000 tonnes. Depending on the ambient temperature, the top of the tower may shift away from the sun by up to 18 cm (7 in) because of thermal expansion of the metal on the side facing the sun. The tower also sways 6–7 cm (2–3 in) in the wind. As demonstration of the economy of design, if the 7300 tonnes of the metal structure were melted down it would fill the 125 meter square base to a depth of only 6 cm (2.36 in), assuming a density of the metal to be 7.8 tonnes per cubic meter. The tower has a mass less than the mass of the air contained in a cylinder of the same dimensions, that is 324 meters high and 88.3 meters in radius. The weight of the tower is 10,100 tonnes compared to 10,265 tonnes of air.
The first and second levels are accessible by stairways and lifts. A ticket booth at the south tower base sells tickets to access the stairs which begin at that location. At the first platform the stairs continue up from the east tower and the third level summit is only accessible by lift. From the first or second platform the stairs are open for anyone to ascend or descend regardless of whether they have purchased a lift ticket or stair ticket. The actual count of stairs includes 9 steps to the ticket booth at the base, 328 steps to the first level, 340 steps to the second level and 18 steps to the lift platform on the second level. When exiting the lift at the third level there are 15 more steps to ascend to the upper observation platform. The step count is printed periodically on the side of the stairs to give an indication of progress of ascent. The majority of the ascent allows for an unhindered view of the area directly beneath and around the tower although some short stretches of the stairway are enclosed.
Maintenance of the tower includes applying 50 to 60 tones of paint every seven years to protect it from rust. In order to maintain a uniform appearance to an observer on the ground, three separate colors of paint are used on the tower, with the darkest on the bottom and the lightest at the top. On occasion the colour of the paint is changed; the tower is currently painted a shade of brownish-grey. On the first floor there are interactive consoles hosting a poll for the colour to use for a future session of painting.

Free Post

2008-08-03T17:09:00.001-07:00

Im my free post i'm going to talk about Juan Roman Riquelme, a famous football player :D.
First of all let's start talking about in wich team Riquelme plays, he plays in Boca Juniors Football team, the best football team of all times :P. He has played in Boca Juniors a few years ago, then he left to Spain to play in Villareal and then he came back. Personally, i think Riquelme is one of the best world players in this position, playing with the number 10 in his back. One thing he does amazingly are free kicks, he has scored a lot of goals like that, he can also evade a lot of players, and throw really good goal passes. In the last months, he has been playing with an injury, and a lot of people has been really mad with him about that, because he hasn't been playing good football, but i will never be mad with him about something similar...

This is his face when he's shooting a freekick.

That's him celebrating a goal.

Well, Thats my free post, my opinion, and i hope you like it.

See you!

Juanso

Walt Disney World: where dreams come true..

2008-08-03T13:40:00.000-07:00

When I think of fun, the first place that comes to my mind is Disneyland. So, as this is one of the world's greatest and funniest place, I want to write about this magic area which surprises me everytime I go! I really hope you enjoy it ;)

Walt Disney World Resort is the most visited and largest recreational resort in the world, it has a total size of 101 km2. The original Disney, located in the cities of Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, about 24 km southwest of Orlando, Florida, USA; was inaugurated in 1955 by its creator, the american Walter Disney (1901-1966) and also owner of The Walt Disney Company.
Nowadays, it contains four theme parks (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom and MGM); two water parks (Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach); twenty-three themed hotels classified into five categories: Deluxe, Moderate, Value, Vacacional Club and Campground; and numerous shopping, dinning, entertainment and recreation venues.
Downtown Disney consists of three sections: Marketplace, Pleasure Island, and West Side. They include the Disney Quest indoor arcade, a House of Blues restaurant and nightclub, a Planet Hollywood restaurant and a Cirque du Soleil theater and original production, La Nouba.
Name and Logo:
During the resort's early planning stages, Walt Disney referred to the project as Project X, The Florida Project, Disney World, and The Disney World. After Walt Disney's death, his brother, Roy O. Disney, added the name Walt to "Disney World" as a permanent tribute to his brother. The resort's original logo was an oversized "D" with a Mickey Mouse-shaped globe.
Attendance:
The 2008 issue of Park World magazine reported attendance estimates for 2007: Magic kingdom, 17 million visits (N.1 worldwide); Epcot, 11 million visits; MGM and Animal Kingdom, 9.5 million visits.
Employment:
When Disney's first park, Magic Kingdom, opened the site employed about 5.500 cast members. Today it employs more than 61.000, having more than 3.000 job classifications; spending more than $1.1 billion on payroll and $478 million on benefits each year.
Transportation:
Disney transport contains hundreds of buses which are available for guests at no charge. It is also possible to travel by taxi boats and with the Walt Disney World Monorail System, a technological and fast monorail transport which operates all around the Disney parks.
In the world there are also other Disney properties such as Disneyland Resort California, Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Resort Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland Resort.

Well, I hope you liked it :)
Enjoy the last day of winter holidays, unluckily !!
- Caro Padilla -

Friends!!

2008-08-03T08:53:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! I hope you are enjoying!! I was until I realized I still had to do my English homework! – Just Kidding xD - I will tell you a little bit about my favorite TV- Series, it’s called “Friends”..

“Friends” is an American Soap Opera created by Marta Kauffman and David Crane which tells the story and everyday life of Ross (starring David Schwimmer), Monica (Courtney Cox), Rachel (Jennifer Anniston), Joey (Matt LeBlanc), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) and Chandler (Matthew Perry).
Joey is my favorite character; he’s sweet and charming but also kind of silly. He’s an actor. Rachel is the typical popular girl and fashion victim. Monica is obsessed with cleaning and cooking, also a very good friend. Ross is Monica’s brother and works as a paleontologist; he always makes his friends bored with his dinosaur- stories. Phoebe is really sweet but sometimes selfish. Finally, Chandler is the one that is always making jokes and is fooling around.
It was first broadcasted the 22th. September 1994 by the NBC, but here it’s showed in WB channel. It finished broadcasting in 2004; from the 10 years of run it won many awards, like 6 Emmys and a Golden Globe.
The show reached many countries from all around the world. The season which had the most viewers was the 2nd, but the one that reached the 1ST raking position was the 8th (personally my favorite one!)
You are probably familiar with the song “I’ll be there for you” (from The Rembrandts) which was at the beginning of the show.
It was originally called “Friends like us” but eventually the named was changed to its shorter version. The writers also considered other names such as “Across the hall” and “Insomnia Café” before picking up “Friends”.
In the first season, the actors earned $6.500 for each chapter, by the last season each one earned $1.300.000 for chapter!!
The story is filmed at the WB studios; the main sceneries are the “Central Perk”- Café, Monica’s apartment and Joey’s apartment (which is in front of Monica’s).
If you want, you can watch it Mondays and from Wednesday to Friday in Warner Brothers Channel at 8.00 PM. I hope you like it!
See you!!
Caaaro F =)

Sources:
www.friendspeich.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends

Video!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwpq7QIFXJA

Reggae Music

2008-08-02T11:18:00.000-07:00

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady. Reggae is based on a rhythm style characterized by regular chops on the off-beat, known as the skank.

Reggae is often associated with the Rastafari movement, an influence on many prominent reggae musicians from its inception. Reggae song lyrics deal with many subjects, including faith, love, sexuality, relationships, poverty, injustice and other broad social issues.

Origins

The shift from rocksteady to reggae was illustrated by the organ shuffle pioneered by Bunny Lee, and featured in the transitional singles "Say What You're Saying" (1967) by Clancy Eccles, and "People Funny Boy" (1968) by Lee "Scratch" Perry. The Pioneers' 1967 track "Long Shot Bus' Me Bet" has been identified as the earliest recorded example of the new rhythm sound that would soon become known as reggae.
Early 1968 was when the first bona fide reggae records came into being: "Nanny Goat" by Larry Marshall and "No More Heartaches" by The Beltones. Music historian Piero Scaruffi credits American artist Johnny Nash's 1968 hit "Hold Me Tight" with first putting reggae on the American listener charts.
The Wailers, started by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer in 1963, are generally agreed to be the most easily recognised group worldwide that made the transition through all three stages — from ska hits like "Simmer Down", through slower rocksteady; and they are also among the significant pioneers who can be called the roots of reggae — along with Prince Buster, Desmond Dekker, Jackie Mittoo and several others. Some of the many notable Jamaican producers who were highly influential in the development of ska into rocksteady and reggae in the 1960s include Coxsone Dodd, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Leslie Kong, Duke Reid, Joe Gibbs and King Tubby.

Among these early producers was Chris Blackwell, who founded Island Records in Jamaica in 1959, then relocated to England in 1962, where he continued to promote Jamaican music. He formed a partnership with Trojan Records, founded by Lee Gopthal in 1968, which lasted until 1972. Trojan continued to produce reggae artists in the UK until 1974, when it was bought by Saga.

1970s and 1980s

The 1972 film The Harder They Come, starring Jimmy Cliff, generated considerable interest and popularity for reggae music in the United States, and Eric Clapton's 1974 cover of the Bob Marley song "I Shot the Sheriff" is thought to signify reggae's acceptance as a global phenomenon by the "white rock world". By the mid 1970s, reggae was getting radio play in the UK on John Peel's radio show, and Peel continued to play much reggae during his career. What is called the first "Golden Age of Reggae" corresponds roughly to the heyday of roots reggae.
In the second half of the 1970s, the UK punk rock scene was starting to take off, and some punk DJs played reggae records during their DJ sets. Some punk bands, such as The Clash, The Slits, and The Ruts, incorporated reggae influences into their music. At the same time, reggae began to enjoy a revival in the UK that continued into the 1980s, exemplified by groups like Steel Pulse, Aswad, UB40, and Musical Youth. Other artists who enjoyed international appeal in the early 1980s include Third World, Black Uhuru and Sugar Minott.
The Grammy Awards introduced the Best Reggae Album category in 1985, which was won that year by Black Uhuru's Anthem LP. Winners for subsequent years have included albums by Jimmy Cliff, Steel Pulse, Peter Tosh, Ziggy Marley (four times), Bunny Wailer (three times), Shabba Ranks (twice), Inner Circle, Shaggy, Sly and Robbie, Beenie Man, Damian Marley (twice), Lee "Scratch" Perry, Sean Paul, Stephen Marley, and Toots and the Maytals.

Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican musician, singer-songwriter and Rastafarian. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands: The Wailers (1964 – 1974) and Bob Marley & the Wailers (1974 – 1981). Marley died nearly thirty years ago, but remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited for helping spread Jamaican music to the worldwide audience.

Marley's best known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Exodus", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, together with The Wailers, ""Three Little Birds", as well as the posthumous releases "Buffalo Soldier" and "Iron Lion Zion". The compilation album, Legend, released in 1984, three years after his death, is the best-selling reggae album ever (10 times platinum), with sales of more than 12 million copies.

King Bob ^^

...Tokio Hotel...

2008-08-01T18:11:00.000-07:00

"they are a german band, with an increasing popularity this days"

Starting Point

Twins Bill Kaulitz and Tom Kaulitz (born ten minutes before his brother)(in the picture: tom, left, an bill, right) had been performing since the age of 9. After putting on a show in their hometown of Magdeburg in 2001, Bill and Tom met Gustav Schäfer and Georg Listing. Their similar taste in music led to the creation of the band 'Devilish'. In 2003, the group was approached by music producer Peter Hoffmann and were soon after signed with Universal Music Domestic Division in Hamburg. They were then known as 'Tokio Hotel' (Significance: 'Tokio' for the lively and engaging city of Tokyo and 'Hotel' for the band's constant touring around the country). Assisted by professionals, Bill co-wrote the majority of the songs on their album, Schrei (Scream).

Career

The music video of their debut single "Durch den Monsun" (Through the Monsoon) has been playing on German television since July of 2005. The band quickly gained a multitude of fans after its release. The single appeared on the German music charts at #15 on August 20th and reached #1 on August 26th. It also climbed to #1 on the Austrian music charts. Second video was "Schrei"...This video also climbed to #1 all over Europe.They released their album Schrei in September of 2005. In early 2006, their third music video "Rette Mich" (Save Me) was released. This version of the song was different from the original version on their first album because of Bill's now propubescent voice and some instrumental differences. "Rette Mich" made it to the #1 spot as well. The rerelease of their first album was initiated by Bill's voice change and was released with three new songs ("Schwarz (Black), "Beichte" (Confession) and "Thema nr. 1" (Topic #1) in March 2006 titled Schrei: So Laut Du Kannst (Schrei - Noch Lauter Edition) (Scream: As Loud As You Can (Scream - Even Louder Edition)). In September 2006 they released their fourth and last single from their album Schrei: "Der Letzte Tag" (The Last Day). This song also made it into the number one position. The video for "Der Letzte Tag" also includes a bonus track called "Wir Schliessen Uns Ein" (We Lock Ourselves Away).

Popularity, controversy, and criticism

Tokio Hotel is largely popular among teenage girls, of whom most are drawn by the sex appeal of the lead singer of the band, Bill Kaulitz and his twin brother Tom. There has been controversy about Bill's androgynous look (long unconventional dyed hairstyle, black nail polish, unconventional wardrobe), in spite of the fact that the young Kaulitz has made it clear that he is simply an artist expressing himself through his music as well as through his choice of clothing. There has also been controversy about Bill and Tom's weight and concern that their 'unhealthy' underweightness might cause complications for themselves as well as send a bad message to their fans. Furthermore, the band members have been criticized for being 'too young and immature' and for having their music composed and arranged by their production company for them.It is also said that Bill Kaulitz copied his hair style from Japanese singer Miyavi and band style from HIM.

To me they are one of the most important bands in my life, their song are facinating, glamorous, performances in live are terrific, the twins are really different but similar, they know how to rock, not talking justa about the music, talking about the fan's hearts too. When somebody first look at them, they apereance, think that they are really cold, but the are just the oposite.

"The best birthday present I ever got was 10 minutes after I was born", this words were said by Tom Kaulitz, the oldest brother, they are really charming when they want, specially Tom, because Bill is always charming.

"wir haben nicht falsch gemacht, die ganzen Zeit gedacht"

Hisory of Barcelona

2008-08-01T17:05:00.000-07:00

I`m going to write about the place that I most like: Barcelona. I really want to travel there because I think that it`s a very beautiful place and if I had the chance I would go there with one of my best friends, Melissa, because she also like this place.

Barcelona’s origins go back more than 2,500 years when Phoenicians and Carthaginians settled in the area and chose to have a commercial port. The name of Carthaginian ruler Amilcar Barca is often referred to as the origin of the name Barcino, later used by the Romans. The Carthaginians were replaced by the Romans in the 1st century B.C. who preferred Tarraco (modern day Tarragona) as their regional capital. Barcelona has several surviving monuments from this period, concentrated around the Plaça Sant Jaume and the gothic quarter. During the third century AD Barcino replaced Tarraco in importance and became the major Roman outpost in the area of Hispania Citerior; the Roman walls, still visible as part of later buildings in the Gothic quarter, were reinforced in this period to repel the frankish and german invasions. With the disintegration of the Roman Empire came the invasion of the Visigoths who occupied Barcino in 415 A.D. and renamed the city Barcinona. Three hundred years later at the beginning of the 8th century the moors conquered Barcelona during their drive from northern Africa to the south of France. Only one hundred years later, the Franks led by Louis the Pious occupied Barcelona and established a strong military presence in what became known as the Spanish Mark, the front line of a constant battle between the Christian kingdoms of the North with the Arabs. This conflict eventually evolved into what became known as the Reconquest.The Carolingian Empire established a number of Counties and the most important of these was that of Barcelona. The origins of the Catalan nation are to be found in Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona who established a hereditary system of succesion. Before his death in the year 898 he managed to unify the county of Barcelona with the rest of the Carolingian territories . In the year 988 Count Borrell II achieved independence from the Carolingian kings for the County of Barcelona and became the dominant political and military force in the region later known as Catalonia.

I hope you like my post, and the place, of course. Mari Lesjak

JACK JOHNSON

2008-08-01T09:42:00.000-07:00

Jack Hody Johnson was born in May 18, 1975 near Haleiwa, on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. Musican, singer, songwriter and surfer. His success started in 2001 with his debut album Brushfire Fairytales. His music is best described as acoustic/soft rock.

Jack Johnson son of one of the most famous surfers in the island, Jeff Johnson, naturally started surfing at a young age, having practically learned to surf at the same time qe leraned to walk, the man has grown up on his board. At the age 9, he won a surf even and scored a sponsorship with Quiksilver and who seemed to be the start of a professional route. Jack started surfing the universally revered Pipeline at the age 10. By 17, he made the finals at the Pipe trials, becoming the youngest person ever to be at th most prestigious surfing event: Pipeline Masters. Unfortunately, Jack suffered a near death experience at age 17 after crashing his body into the reef during the Pipeline Masters.

After his accident, while recovering, he get interested in filmmaking and soon became a surf film director, photographer, producer and score composer. He recived a praise for his surf cinema ducumentary, Thicker Than Water (1999) wich won the Surfer Magazine Poll award for best film of the year.

Jack Johnson also began writing songs during his college years, having played the guitar since 14 and being brought up with influences such as Nick Drake, Ben Harper, the Beatles, Bob Marley, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and A Tribe Called Quest.

One day, inpiration arrived and Jack ended the day recodring "Rodeo Clowns", it became the first single from the album. His four-track demo caught Ben Haprer's ; J.P Plunier, who worked with Jack on his debut album Brushfire Fairytales. Since then he hasn't stop.

Personally I think that the best album is "In Between Dreams". In this album is the song Sitting, waiting, wishing. That is one of the most beautiful song ever :)

Nowadays he has 4 albums :

- Brushfire Fairytales (2001)

-On & On (2003)

- In Between Dreams (2005)

-Sleep Through The Static (2008)

--> this is a Pipeline

Marina Porcel :)

hawaii by brenleutgeb

2008-07-30T14:04:00.000-07:00

Here is some information about the history of hawaii because is a place that i like very much. i wish i go some day.

Hawaii's history in story and legend is ancient and proud, dating back at least a thousand years before American colonies became a nation in 1776. It is highly unlikely that the exact date when Polynesian people first set foot on these previously uninhabited islands will ever be known, nor much details about events occurring between that date and the first contact with Europeans.
The Hawaiians were a people without writing, who preserved their history in chants and legends. Much of the early history has disappeared with the death of the kahunas and other learned men whose function it was to pass on this knowledge, by means of chants and legends, to succeeding generations.
Modern Hawaiian history begins on January 20, 1778, when Captain James Cook's expedition made its first contact with the Hawaiian people on the islands of Kauai and Niihau. Captain Cook was not the first man to "discover" the Hawaiian Islands. He was the first known European to arrive.
The language of Hawaii and archaeological discoveries indicate that Hawaii was settled by two distinct waves of Polynesian migration. Cook himself knew that the original Polynesian discoverers had come from the South Pacific hundreds of years before his time. First, from the Marquesas, came a settlement as early as 600 or 700 AD, and then from the Society Islands, another migration about 1100 AD. Lacking instruments of navigation or charts or any kind, the Polynesians sailed into vast oceans. They staked their knowledge of the sky and its stars, the sea and its currents, the flight of birds and many other natural signs. They were superior seamen of their time.

brenleutgeb :D

History of Snowboarding

2008-07-30T09:20:00.000-07:00

Hi!!! I hope you are having a good holiday. I go to Catedral everyday to snowboarding and I have fun with my frineds. I think that Snowboard is one of the best sports so I'm going to tell you the history of this Sport.

Snowboarding was invented only about 35 years ago. In 1963 a man named Tom Sims made a snowboard out of plywood. He was in eighth grade and he did this in his shop class. He called it a ski board. He later formed a company that makes many snowboards.
Another snowboard inventor is Sherman Poppen. In 1965 Poppen designed a snowboard called a snurfer. To make it Sherman had bolted two skis together. He attached a rope to help the rider keep his balance and steer.
In 1979 Jake Burton Carpenter started making snowboards out of fiberglass. He also added bindings to help control the board easier. In the 1980's they started adding steel edges to the sides of the snowboard. They also invented bindings with high backs to help control when snowboarding on hard packed snow.
Snowboarding becomes more popular every year. At first a lot of ski resorts would not let snowboarders use their slopes. Now there are only a few that won't let snowboarders in. In 1996 there were about two million snowboarders. By the year 2000 there will be about 4 million people who snowboard and I think that now there are more than 4 million.

If you have the opportunity, please try it... is very fun!

Bye!

the beatles (the best :P)

2008-07-28T19:28:00.000-07:00

the beatles :)

The beatles

2008-07-28T19:14:00.001-07:00

The Beatles (1960-1970), were an English musical group from Liverpool, and are usually regarded as the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful popular music artists in history.The innovative music and style of John Lennon (1940–1980), Paul McCartney (1942—), George Harrison (1943–2001), and Ringo Starr (1940—) helped to define the 1960s.The Beatles were the best-selling popular musical act of the 20th century. In the United Kingdom alone, they released more than 40 different singles and albums.The Beatles' impact extended well beyond their music. Their clothes, hairstyles, and statements made them trend-setters from the 1960s to this day.The Beatles appeared in several films, most of which were very well received.
I like very much this band beacause is very funny and they've written beatifulls songs like "let it be" , "something" , "yesterday" and more..

A little bit of Fito's life- Free post- by nacho

2008-07-28T07:36:00.000-07:00

Rodolfo "Fito" Páez Ávalos, was born in March 13, 1963 in Rosario, Santa Fe Province. He is an popular Argentine rock and roll pianist, lyricist, Spanish language singer and film director.

He formed "Staff", his first band when he was 13. In 1977, he played in "El Banquete" with Rubén Goldín and Jorge Llonch. He began to appear solo in pubs the following year.

Straight out of high school, he began touring with several bands and soon after that he produced his first solo album, "Del '63", which was released in 1984. The disc won him critical acclaim as a songwriter and helped lead to future projects, including a 1985 album, "Giros".

The demo of that album earned him the praise of Luis Alberto Spinetta, as well as a partnership -- Paez's next album, 1986's "La La La" was a duet with Spinetta. The duo supported that album with a tour that reached all the way to Santiago, Chile. The same year, he participated in the Thousand Days of Democracy festival with Spinetta, Juan Carlos Baglietto, Silvina Garré and Antonio Tarragó Ros.

His 1987 recording, "Ciudad de Pobres Corazones", marked a dark turn for his work. It was dedicated to the memory of his aunt and grandmother, who were murdered in Rosario. The album was made with anger, but it was also more rhythmic and showed greater songwriting depth than his previous recordings.

After serveral albums like "Ey!", which was released in 1988 and "Tercer Mundo"(1990), "El Amor Después del Amor" in 1992 marked the pinnacle of his commercial success. The album sold more than 750,000 copies and when Paez toured to support it, he found himself playing to sold-out shows for 40,000 people. Shortly after its release, he played a benefit concert for UNICEF which raised more than $420,000.

The follow-up, "Circo Beat", had impossibly high expectations and though it had several hit songs, including "Mariposa Tecknicolor" and "Tema de Piluso," as well as a companion album, "Circo Beat Brazil", which featured Brazilian remixes of its hits, it only sold around 350,000 copies.

Several other projects were completed in the late '90s, including a live album, "Euforia" and 1998's "Sabina & Paez: Enemigos Intimos", with Joaquín Sabina. The year 1999 brought another balanced, superbly produced album, "Abre". He also took home two Grammys at the first annual Latin Grammy Award in fall 2000.

Paez' 2003 album "Naturaleza sangre" marks a return to his musical past, featuring appearances from Charly García, Luis Alberto Spinetta and Brazilian artist Rita Lee on the previously unreleased version of "Ojos Rojos".

The album "El Mundo Cabe en una Canción" won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Solo Vocal Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2007.

In 2007 he released his newest album called "Rodolfo", he recorded it at home with nothing else that his voice and his piano.

He also has directed film productions such as "Vidas privadas"(2001), "¿De quién es el portaligas?"(2007)

By Nacho

Post Nº 4: Free post

2008-07-23T18:59:00.000-07:00

The search for the source of the Nile.
The Nile River has always been the most famous and the less comprised one of Africa. The Egyptian civilization had bloomed at its shore, but the river itself was always a mystery to them. Where was its source? And why did it overflow every year? According to the legend, there was a mountain range called “The Mountains of the moon” that fed the Nile with water. Actually, the Nile is divided in two branches, the western one, the White Nile, was a mystery. In the middle of the nineteenth century, some explorers followed the White Nile (from north to south) through a great swamp, called As-Sudd (barrier). A little bit southern, some missioners heard rumors about an inner see that flowed into the White Nile.
These stories fascinated the explorers Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke. Together they traveled to the interior from Zanzibar to study the Lake Tanganyika in 1856. On his way back, Speke went up north and saw “a lake so bright that you couldn’t see the other shore and so long, that no one knows its length”. It was the Ukerewe Lake, the second largest fresh water lake.
Sure that he had found the source of the Nile, John Speke called him Lake Victoria (after the Queen). But Burton did not believe him and they both went back to England, being big enemies.
Speke went back to Africa in 1860, together with James Grant. They traveled throughout the western coast of Lake Victoria and found a cascade in the north edge. There Speke wrote his phrase: “the old Father Nile doubtlessly begins in Victoria”.
They continued to the north, followed the river where they could and arrived to Juba, in Sudan (the point up to where the Nile had been tracked from north to south).
Burton never accepted the claims of Speke and both decided to present their arguments in a public debate in 1864. But the day of the debate Speke died in a hunting-trip accident. He was right, Lake Victoria is the source of the White Nile, but this wasn’t proved until 1877, when the British general Charles George Gordon outlined the map of the river.

John Hanning Speke.

Richard Francis Burton.

Routes taken by the expeditions of Burton and Speke (1857-1858) and Speke and Grant (1863).

-->If you are interested in the subject, watch the film “Mountains of the moon” (“Montañas de la luna”)

Marco

Post nº 4 by santi...

2008-07-17T15:02:00.000-07:00

In this post i´m going to write about the TV.

History:
In 1884 Nipkow, a 20-year old university student in Germany patented the first electromechanical television system which employed a scanning disk, a spinning disk with a series of holes spiraling toward the center. Nipkow's design would not be practical until advances in amplifier tube technology became available in 1907. Even then the device was only useful for transmitting still halftone images - those represented by equally spaced dots of varying size - over telegraph or telephone lines.
John Baird demonstrated the transmission of moving silhouette images in London in 1925, and of moving, monochromatic images in 1926. Baird's scanning disk produced an image of 30 lines resolution, barely enough to discern a human face, from a double spiral of lenses.
Also in 1927, Herbert E. Ives of Bell Labs transmitted moving images from a 50-aperture disk producing 16 frames per minute over a cable from Washington, DC to New York City, and via radio from Whippany, New Jersey. Ives used viewing screens as large as 24 by 30 inches (60 by 75 centimeter). His subjects included Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover.

In my opinion, Tv is an important way to be informated. We use it too to watch soap operas, cartoons, etc.
But the television, like all the things, has a bad side. Some TV programs show us our reality, but there are some programs that show inappropiated things.

Despite this, we can watch programs in live anywhere.

Some people are addited to the television. TV addiction is a disorder where the subject has a compulsion to watch television. The compulsion can be extremely difficult to control in many cases. It has many parallels to other forms of addiction, such as addiction to drugs or gambling, which create an altered mental state in the subject.
Coupled with other factors, habitual television watching, over long periods of time, has been known to cause, in some people, a lack of motivation and feelings of listlessness,depression, and anger.

TV RULES

I´M NOT ADDICTED TO THE TELEVISION. xD

Happy holidays!
Waiting for the snow!!

Santi

SOCIETY

2008-06-17T17:25:00.000-07:00

Society - Eddie Vedder (Into The Wild Soundtrack)

2008-06-16T16:18:00.001-07:00

Letter to Nicholas
Dear Nicholas,
Oh brother, you have no idea how I am. I can’t put up with this situation. All around me, my entire world is crumbling. I have lot of problems; I’m alone without friends or any companion to help me with my big pain.
The problem is that a nasty, horrible and ambitious man want to be my husband, he pretends I like him. His name is Mulberry Hawk and I hate him with all my heart but he’s obsessed with me. He doesn’t leave me alone a second, he follow me, he come to house only for meet me.
And the worst is that mom wants to marry me with him! He manipulates her.
I’m living with an old and rich woman calls Witterly, I’m her companion but she dislike me when she invite Hawk to the house for dinner when I’m.
Ralph demands me too, because he is his friend and says that I would be rich if I accept him.
I’m so unhappy, so sad!
I’m sure Mr. Hawk would take mom away from me if he become into my husband.
I wish you would be here, with me, support me.
It’s time ago since all this has begun, but I didn’t tell you because I didn’t want to scarry you, but now I feel very, very bad and I need you so much.
I hope you soon.
Love
Kate
marianela

letter!!

2008-06-15T20:30:00.001-07:00

Dear Newmann:

Im writtig to you because i want to know some news about my family: how are they? where are they living? do you know if my sister has found any job yet?, im verry worried about them.
This place here is horrible, i really hate the way they treat me and averything here, i just hope i can leave as soon asa posible. Is there any cahnce to go back there and work there? i really want to live with my family, I'm sure they think every day in me.
Here i met a boy that is terrofied for the owners of these place, is there any chance to give him a place there, we can work in anything you need. We are very greatfull with everything you help us.
thank you,

nicholas

Letter to Nicholas..

2008-06-14T18:55:00.000-07:00

Dear Nicholas,

I have just received your letter. I felt very shocked when I read it. In my opinion, noone has disappointed me so much as you did, I humbly gave you my help, and now you treat me that way?. My plans were completely harmless to your family, you can ask my clerk if you want. Anyway, if you want war I won't let anyone insult me as you did and i won't stay with my arms crossed, so I'll continue with those "evil plans" you mentioned. From now on, I'll make you and your family realise that i'm not a scary person and that you've dealed with the wrong one. Noone betrays Ralph Nickleby, and I want you to understand that...Next time, be careful with the things you say.
Perhaps we'll see each other soon.
Yours sincerely,

Ralph Nickleby

I'm Caro Padilla, but the thing is that i forgot my gmail password and i didn't have other way to post it, so the post is uploaded by Nicolaj.
I hope you enjoy my letter :)

CARO ^^

Letter to Newmann Noggs

2008-06-12T15:24:00.001-07:00

Dear Nicholas,
I’m really proud of you, I’m glad you found that great men that gave you a hand. I think that they seem to be very good people and I’ll ask you to be very kind to them. I’m more than happy that you finally felt in love, and I’ll do my best in finding these girls address.
Regarding the note you gave me. Your uncle is really angry; the things are going as we thought. I hope nobody interferes in our plans. We’ll keep in touch. And write me about how Smike is doing.
My best wishes.

Newmann Noggs

Letter to Newmann Noggs

2008-06-12T15:22:00.000-07:00

Dear Nicholas,
I’m really proud of you, I’m glad you found that great men gave you a hand. I think that they seem to be very good people and I’ll ask you to be very kind to them. I’m more than happy that you finally fell in love, and I’ll do my best in finding these girls' addresses.
Regarding the note you gave me. Your uncle is really angry; the things are going as we thought. I hope nobody interferes in our plans. We’ll keep in touch. And write me about how Smike is doing.
My best wishes.

Newmann Noggs

2008-06-12T13:54:00.000-07:00

Dear Newmann,
Hello! how are you doing? How's your life going on? Iam writing to because some really bad things happened,but besides that all the family is OK and Smike is more than happy.
Regarding the problem, Smike was kidnapped by my uncle and Mr. Squeers.Then found him in the street and they took him to some place. Luckily Jhon Browdie and Tilda were invited to have tea with them. With some non-important excuse Jhon went up and freed Smike.
The next day all the family with Jhon and tilda were at home and someone knocked at the door, it was Ralph, Mr. Squeers and some man that was supposed to be Smike's father. They wanted Smike to leave with them but we didn't let him go, so they threatened us.
I'll just ask you if you can investigate who that guy is? and if he's really Smike's father..
My best wishes.

Nicholas.

2008-06-09T20:15:00.000-07:00

Dear Newmann,

I’m writing to you because I need to know about my mother and sister. How are they? Is my sister working? And my mother? I really need to know how is my uncle treating them. If he does something bad to them, I swear to God, I’ll kill him with my own hands.

Well, as you know I’m working in a small artistic company,a small theatre. The pay is not much but they give us food and a nice place to sleep. Smike is very happy and he’s learning fast. He enjoys this job very much, I think he wants to become an actor some day. And I must say, he is very good.

Well my letter is a little short but at least you know something about me. When I earn some money I’ll come back to London to take my family out of the hands of that horrible man.

Thanks for everything. Please write to me! My address is “55 street”.

Love, Nicholas Nickleby

Letter

2008-06-08T18:27:00.000-07:00

Dear Mr. Newman,

I am writing this letter because I would like to know how are my mother and my sister, are they fine?I hope yes, please don´t tell them about this, but living alone and in this horrible place is really difficult for me, I miss them a lot, I wish I was there with them. Well, Kate, is working with the dressmaker?, and my mum, how is she doing, is she sad?Please let me know all the details of their lives without me, I really care about them.
I am writing to you because if I write to them and my uncle find out, he will do terrible things to the people I love, and of course that is not a good thing. Pleaae be careful with that and take care of my family, I would be really grateful.
I have made a new friend here, Smike, he lived here with the other kids, together we have passed a lot of awful things,they are treated as objects! but after all we are here!
And about you, how are you? I am so glad to have you as a friend.
Write to me as soon as you can, I want to know how my mum and Kate are.
With love,
Nicholas.

by Hilee :)

letter

2008-06-08T15:08:00.000-07:00

Dr Newman Noggs

I´m writing to you beacuse I want to know how my mother and sister are. I hope you are taking care of them so they don´t feel lonely. I really want to go home. Here they treat me very bad. We have to work a lot with out resting. They also don´t give us enough food so we can´t work good because we feel very tired. I hope I won´t get ill because the place here is very cold. I don´t have a good life like the one I had there . The people here is very different from me. But I made a good friend. His name is Smike. He seems to be a good boy.
Write me as soon as possible. I want to know how my family is :)

My best wishes,
Nicholas Nickleby

Letter to Mr Newman

2008-06-08T13:49:00.000-07:00

Dear Mr Newman,
I'm writing this letter to you just to know how my sister and my mother are going, I hope you're taking care of them the best way you can.I really want to go there with you , this place is horrible, all the people treat me like trash, they don't give me enough food to eat and sometimes they hit us.But I made a friend, his name is Smike, he's really different to the other people, he treats me very well, so is really nice to have him with me.
Well I hope you send me a letter as soon as posible, I really want to know how Kate and my mom are.
My best wishes.

Nicholas.

Letter to Nicholas

2008-06-08T13:32:00.000-07:00

Dear Nicholas,
How are you, darling?I hope you're fine.
Well, since your left Kate has been realy sad, I don`t understand why.The dreesmaker fired her, but now she's working with a lovely old woman, called Mrs Wititterly, that needs some help.But that's not the best news! Last night we went to your uncle's home for dinner and we met an old man, called Sir Mulberry, that's interested in Kate! I hope he wants to marry her, it would be a really interesting marriage. But I think that Kate isn`t interested in him, well he is quite old, but it doesn't matter. Your uncle Ralph appears to be compliced with this man, he said that he's a very important business customer.
Well honey,
With love, your Mother.
Mrs Nickleby.

Letter

2008-06-08T13:26:00.000-07:00

Dear Nicholas,

I am so worried about you... I do not even know where you are. I am sending this letter without an address, it is just says "For Nicholas Nickleby" .The last thing that I heard about you, was that you left London with Smike. Somehow I feel gulty. I should run away with you, I can not see our mother any more. She "doesn't know what to think". For my is impossible to believe those things that our uncle said about you... I am completely sure that you are not a thief, and that the reason because you ran away with Smike is that his life was in danger. I can not accept our mother's opinions. I know that you will answer that she is our mother, and she loves us, but for the moment I can not even see her.
Oh, Nickolas, I want to know is where you are, when will you come back. I need you here, to take care of me. I am very scared with Sir Mulberry Hawk, his behaviour with me is unacceptable, but I can not reply about him with our uncle because for him Sir Mulberry Hawk is a very important costumer.
Well, I have to leave, our mother is back...

Please, answer this letter as soon as you can.

Love,

Kate

Letter to Nicholas Nickleby

2008-06-08T13:09:00.000-07:00

Dear Nicholas,

Where are you? Are you doing ok? And how is Smike? Newman told me he knew your new address so I'm sending my letter to him.
I want to tell you some bad news. First of all, the dressmaker's fired me. I started working with an old woman who needs my help, she is called Mrs Wititterly. She was very nice to me at first, but lately she's been treating me in a cold way. In fact, we had a big argument last Monday. I'm so sad! I really need this job!
But the main thing I wanted to tell you is about an ugly man called Sir Mulberry. I met him one afternoon at dinner at uncle Ralph's house. I think I like him. He asked uncle Ralph to arrange a date with me. He has been visiting me a lot lately. He's so annoying! I can't deal with him anymore. He's unpolite and makes stupid jokes all the time. The worst thing is that mum wants him to marry me! And I also think that all this attention is the reason Mrs Wititterly has been treating me so badly. I think she may be jealous!
The other day I tried to tell uncle Ralph about him, but he nearly closed the door at my nose! He's such a selfish man!
I'm sorry to bother you with all my problems, dear brother, but I just needed to talk to someone. I hope you are fine. Write to me soon please! I miss you.

With love,
Kate Nickleby

Letter

2008-06-08T12:46:00.000-07:00

Dear Mr Newman

I'm writing you because I want to know how my mom and sister are. I hope they are fine, and i'm sure that you are going to take care of them as good as you can. This place is terrible, they treat me and the other kids like trash, they don't give us enough food to live appropiately, they don't let us sleep as we should, and they don't give us any free time at all, but at least my family is o.k, so I hope.
The best part of it, is that I made a good friend, called Smike, he's a good kid, and he treats me like a person, that's not common here.
I hope everything is good there. Please send me a letter back!
Best Regards.
Nicholas Nickelby.

2008-06-07T12:35:00.000-07:00

Dear Newmann Noggs,

I'm writing this letter for you, because I want to know how my mother and sister are. I hope they're fine, but I need to receive a letter to be sure. I want to go there as soon as I can, but I'll have to escape from this awful place. I have made a new friend, Smike. He's one of the children that are living here. You have no idea about how they are treated. It's very painful sometimes, for example: the other day Squeers hit Smike because he wasn't sleeping in his bedroom. The poor children have nothing to eat because Squeers doesn't want to spend his money on them. The place has no food, the rooms are very cold and it's not a place where the children should live. Less with those conditions.
Well, I have to go now, but I hope you'll answer soon.
Best wishes,
Nicholas Nickleby

Letter

2008-06-06T16:35:00.000-07:00

Dear Mr Newman,

I'm writing this letter to you because I really want to know how my mum and my sister are.
I'm sure that you are going to help them as much as you can.
By the way, this place is horrible, they treat the kids like animals, they give them as less as food they can, not to waste their money, there is not even a fire to warm the poor children up. The other day Squeers hit a boy because he was sleeping near the chimney. If my uncle were not suporting my sister and mother I swear to God I would have gone off here!!!!!!
Well that's all I can say for now.See you soon,
Hoping this letter arrives,

Nicholas Nickleby.

Cartita

2008-06-06T14:02:00.000-07:00

Dear Newman:

How are you doing? I hope that fine. I'm writing to you because I want to know about my mother and sister. Are they fine? Is my dear Kate working for a dressman? And my mother, how is she? You know why I'm writing to you, and if you don't, the reason that I write to you instead of Kate or my mother is because my ugly uncle would find the letter and he would get angry.
About me, i'm working for a theatre called "The Sun", me and Smike are doing well here for now.
I hope that you can respond to my letter.
Best wishes...
Nicholas Nickleby

By Leo ;)

Post nº 3

2008-06-06T10:19:00.000-07:00

Dear Kate,

How is your work with Mrs. Wititterly going? Me and Smike arrived safely to the Boy's House. I am sorry that you are not happy with your new job, but I promise you will feel better in a few days; you will just get used to it and start to like it as well. Me and Smike are very happy right now, we will soon start working and saving money for the next weeks. Beware of Sir Mulberry Hawk, he is a very cruel man, he just wants to hurt people, he is a hypocrite, his words are filled with venom, pain is a consequence of his presence. Trust me, he is a man with which you should be careful…

I will write you soon –as soon as you respond this letter-

Best regards.

Nicholas Nickelby.

(By Marco)

Letter ;)

2008-06-05T17:47:00.000-07:00

Dear sister,

I would like to tell you I'm doing great in this new place I'm working at, but I'm afraid it's one of the most horrid places I've ever been. Mr. Squeers is nasty, and so is he's family. The children here are always being punished and treated as animals. I feel so sorry for them each time I see them shivering of hunger, I would really love taking them all to a better place, but then I realise I must control myself.

Anyway, please don't worry about me. How are you and mom doing? Have you get anywhere to live, how is Uncle Ralph behaving with you? Has he kept his promise?

Well, I have to stop writing for now; I think I shouldn't be here and I here Mr. Squeers' wife footsteps approaching.

Love,

Your brother Nicholas.

cartaaaa

2008-06-05T15:18:00.000-07:00

Dear Newman,

I´m writing to you because you can help me to know how my family is. I want to know something about them. But be careful of my uncle, you know, he can´t read this letter. Please tell me, how is Kate? Is she working at the dressmaker´s? Do you think that is a good work for Kate?
My mother? How is she? I hope that they are fine. My uncle said a lot of lies, so I am afraid of them. He can make terrible things. The life here is so dificult without my family, I need them.

And you? How are you? I made questions about my family, but of course I want to know about you!!

Ok, I´m waiting for your answer. Thanks for all.

Best wishes,
Nicholas

Para Nicholas de Kate..

2008-06-05T14:27:00.000-07:00

Dear Nicholas:
I can´t believe that you left. You said that if you stayed you would make our lives unhappy and when you left things would change and get better. But that's not true and you know. Our uncle said that you give the responsibility of our family to him. I don´t like this.He is bad with me, he shouts to me when I do something wrong or things like that. Since you left I can´t sleep at night and I don´t have energy, I don´t eat nothing. If you stay a very long time in London I won´t stand it much. I´m very sad and the girls too. Please don´t stay much time in London.

I miss you
Your sister Kate..

By brenleutgeb

Letter to Nicholas Nickleby

2008-05-31T09:20:00.000-07:00

May 31

Hi Nicholas!

It´s good you are working for a theatre company. Is the job interesting? How much money are you getting for this job?
I write to tell you that things here couldn´t be worse.
Kate lost her job at the dressmaker´s and she is now working as companion of a woman called Mrs Wititterly. Kate is so sad because she met an ugly old man called Sir Mulberry Hawk at Ralph´s house and he visits her every day at Mrs Wititterly house. He likes her, but she hates him because he had embarassed her with stupid jokes at dinner at your uncle`s house. She says that Sir Mulberry Hawk treats her like a toy.
Your mother thinks that Mulberry is a gentleman. She wants him to marry your sister.
I heard all these things when your sister and your uncle were talking in Ralphs office (I heard through the door!).
In the conversation she asked him for help but he said that he could not help her because Sir Mulberry Hawk is an important customer.
Then Kate left the house.
That´s all I know and I can tell you.
I hope you keep writing me!
I wait for an answer.

Best wishes,

Newman Noggs

by Santi

cartitaa para Newmannnnnnnnn

2008-05-28T16:36:00.000-07:00

HI Newman!
I am writing to you, because I need to know about my mother and my sister. I hope that they are ok; I have to say that the life without them is really difficult because I miss them a lot. Please tell me where are they living. Is Kate working with the dressmaker? My mother, how is she? Please let me know everything you can.
I write to you because I am afraid that if I write to them my uncle would find the letter and he can do bad things to my family , you know what I am talking about.
About me it is simple, I am working for a small theatre, called “the Sun”. It is something good for me and for Smike because he is working with me. We haven’t so much money but we can live. I am in the South of England, and my street is “55 street” so please write to me.
Thank you very much Newman, it is great to have someone like you.
Love,
Nicholas Nickleby.

By AYE :D

2008-05-26T17:45:00.001-07:00

CELL PHONES AND THE ENVIRONMENT!

An environmental research organization partly funded by the EPA, has estimated that cell phones are typically used only for about 10 months before being replaced. Calling plans are often packaged with free or low-cost cell phones, which often makes keeping your current phone economically disadvantageous. Becouse of that, many cell phones face their demise before they have become technologically obsolete, and the waste stream gets not only the cell phones that are truly unusable, but also those that are simply no longer the best deal for the owner.

How does this affect the environment? In addition to the volume of landfill space that cell phones could take up, they also contain toxic chemicals such as:

* arsenic (used in some semiconductors)
* brominated compounds (used as flame retardants)
* lead (used in the solder that attaches components to circuit boards)

These and other cell-phone toxins enter the environment when discarded cell phones are incinerated or when rainwater leaches the materials out of landfilled phones. Many of the toxic compounds in cell phones are found on the EPA's list of "persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemicals." EPA warns that these substances can cause a range of adverse human health effects, including damage to the nervous system, reproductive and developmental problems, and cancer.

I think we must take care of this situation and we have to be more concious about where our old cell phones go! Is important to keep your current phone all you can!

If not, you better call a doctor!

Franco

Cell phones

2008-05-26T16:22:00.000-07:00

Wiiiii!! This time I had a lot of problems to post, my computer was out of order and internet didn´t work. =(

But now y can. I am going to tell you something about cellular phones.

Cellular phones

The beginning history of cell phones is based upon radio technology that was developed from the 1940's onward. For instance the beginning of cell phones can be traced to the innovation in taxi cabs, police cars and other service vehicles where two way radios were used to communicate with one another or with a central base. Early cell phone communication technology could be even traced back to individuals with special radios that can patch into a phone line via live operator to make a phone call.

The first official mobile phone was used in Sweden by the Swedish police in 1946.

In my opinion a cellular phone is a wireless phone that most people these days communicate with. It is very usefull, but in some cases the people is addict at it, and want to have the new phone, or the last one model. The companies always makes new plans or cell phones to make money. But then they don´t do that they said, somethimes they are only interested in earn money.

But in conclusion cell phones are nessesary today, we use it all the time.

Ok i hope you like it!!! =)=)

Bye

Danii =)

2008-05-25T18:00:00.000-07:00

The mobile phones’ history:

The history began in the Second Mundial Word, when the people realized that they need communicated through the distances. Then Motorola’s company made an equip calls Handie Talkie H12-16, what work with avenue wave of radio.
Martin Cooper is considerate like the father of the mobile phones; he fabricated the first radio telephone in 1970, in EE.UU. They appeared in Tokyo, Japan in 1979; in Scandinavia in 1981 and in Chicago in 1983.
Just in 1980 created an equip for people, generally for successful businessman who must be communicated.
In 2001 appeared the mobile phones in colors, so the camera also. And together with this innovation appeared the text messages and late the Multimedia messages.
Finally Nokia made a games’ centre, where you can play games 3D, watch television and videos.

Generations of the mobile phone:

1º generation: created in 1979, required radio’s waves. They weigh 1kg and were very large.
2º generation: created in 1990, used Digital Technology. They had text and multimedia message.
3º generation: use in the actuality.

MY OPINION:

I think the mobile phones improvement very quickly and they are perfect communicate equips. Everybody have one. We are very used to depend of them so I think it’s impossible them disappear.
But I’m disagree to become obsessed to get the last one model because all of them are similar and just have to device to talk and communicate each other not to compete.

www.elforro.com/telefonos-moviles/52066-historia-telefonos-celulares.html

Mobile Phones.

2008-05-25T17:41:00.000-07:00

History of Cell Phones
A cellular phone is a wireless phone that most people these days communicate with. It seems that not to long ago that people were still using house. Not little kids have cell phones. In 1843 a man by the name of Michael Faraday studied to see if space could conduct electricity. In the year of 1865 Doctor Mahlon Loomis was the first person to communicate through wireless atmosphere. He came up with the idea of transmitting and receiving messages through atmosphere as a conductor. Loomis was awarded 50,000 for his research.
In 1973 martin copper came up with Motorola. He took the project and let the people of New York see it. In 1977 the first cell phone was made in Chicago. When it first came out 2000 people was given a free trial. Then other places started to make cell phones. When to cell phone first came out they were huge. The people did not know how to make the phone any more compact. In 1988 the big company's started to make cell phones. There were over 54 places all over the world.
From the year 1843 to now phones have changes a lot. In the year 2010 you will be able to search the internet for what every on the phone. This is now happening but in the future in will become more advanced.
Cell phones are getting harder and harder to use. The only thing that people need to know how to do is call some one and to store numbers. This is not how the cell phone companies think. They think that you need text message, car phone, radio phone, and that you need 25 different channel on a phone . I could see if it was on TV. But that is not all you need to know how to call the number. All that you really need to know about working cell phone is how to dial the numbers.
In concution I think that cell phones will change by the years . I do not think that cell phones are a bad invention because is very usefull to do a lot of things, for example: you can comunicate with friends and family and stuff like that. But cell phones have a desadvantage too, sometimes they are irritaing because some people is adict to this invention, but if you use it for an useful cause it is ok.
Well, I hope you like it! See you next time!
Hilee :)

Mobile Phones

2008-05-25T17:37:00.000-07:00

Hi! This is the second time I post in this blog. I'll tell you a little bit about mobile phones..

Mobile phones, also called cell phones, were first invented in 1947, in USA. Reserchers discorvered that using cells (rage of service area) with frequency reuse they could increase the traffic capacity of mobile phones. These means you could call much further. However, they didn't have the technollogy to do that.

Until then, two-way radios, something similar to cell phones that origined them, were used only in vehicles, like taxicabs. With the first ones you couldn't even dial any numbers. Then they were modified, but they were sitll too heavy and exepnsive to be carried everywhere. But the first actual mobile phone was made in 1973 by Martin Cooper (who worked for Motorola), who also made the first call using a cell phone. It was very big and could only make calls. The first city to have mobile phone service was Chicago, with almost 2000 users, on the year 1977.

Cell phones have changed a lot since then. One of the biggest changes was SMS technollogy. Then, surprisingly fast, mobile phones started improving and acquiring different functions, like full-colour screen, ring tones, etc. Now, most of them have cameras, bluetooth, mp3 music players, enough memory to save documents, pictures, music and other stuff and can be conected to the Internet.

Cell phones are certainly one of the most important inventions of the 20th century. They changed the way we communicate (although I think the Internet increased communication much more), allowing us to talk to anyone from anywhere you are. It's a really useful invention, specially for emergencies. But it also has lots of disadvantages. First of all, you don't have much privacy. People can watch what you have in your phone (see your pictures or read your text messages) by just having simple programs. Cameras in cell phones are also a problem for privacy, because people can take pictures when you are unprepared. Other problem, according to some people, is that mobile phones have radiation that can harm humans. However, I don't think this is true. But a real problem I see in cell phones is "addicion" to them. You can see everyday that more and more people, specially teenagers and kids, are connected to them. They can't go out if they don't have their cell phones. Sharing ring tones all the time seems to be their fun for hours. If you don't have the lastest technollogy, you are "out". But on the other hand, I don't think taking the advantages of cell phones is bad or harming. In conclusion, I think cell phones are a good invention, as long as you don't depend on them!

I hope you liked it.

caaaro : )

MOBILE PHONES TECHNOLOGY NOWADAYS :)

2008-05-25T15:41:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! This is the second time I contribute with this blog, this time i'm here writing a text about cell phones.

Since mobile phones were created, in 1983, they have made a huge revolution in the communication between people all over the world. This invention is one of the most successful technological development ever created. We are all delighted because we can communicate with people in other countries or continents in just few seconds and in a very easy and economical way, but, do we realise that such technology is in an indirect way separating us from each other?

The advantages of cell phones

Mobile phones play a very important role in nowadays' society. For example, children can go almost anywhere and at the same time parents can communicate with them. Luckily, there are several ways to keep in touch with others. We can send a text message (SMS); a multimedia message (MMS), which can include photos or sounds; leave a voice mail, which will be heard when the other people turns his/her phone on; or just call.
At this moment, a common cell phone has a lot of other functions than just call, like old one. They can take photos, replacing digital cameras; show videos; pass information or ringtones through the bluetooth system; store over 200 numbers in the phonebook; play games and so on.
The most trendy and sophisticated ones are very small and flat, they can weight less than a wallet, and the colours, shapes and designs are completely amazing and brilliant.

Disadvantages of mobile phones

As all new inventions, mobile phones can be very efficient but can also have a bad influence on society.
This latest revolution has been recognized worldwide for its excellence in communicating people all over the world. But i think that there's a big point that we all should take into account. Each time we want to talk with others, we easily send a text message, we call them or we also use computers to write e-mails or to chat. This are efficient ways of having a relationship with people, but i personally don't think it's the best one. How many times do we see and speak face to face to each other if we only send messages and speak on the cell phone? Unfortunately, not much.

Technology is invading our lives and we should all be careful and moderated to know how to deal with it. Only this solution will take us to a good future :)

Well, i hope you've enjoyed my text. See you soon ,

CAAAROO P :)

cell phones =)

2008-05-25T12:17:00.001-07:00

Cell phones are wireless phones that people can use in any place they are. To make calls or to send message you must be in a place where you have signal to comuticate, to call another cell-phone or telephone. You can send text messages (sms) where you write what you want and you send to another person wich has a cell phone, or you can send multimedia messages (mms), this are photos, videos, music or draws. Everything you send in a mms can be taken, as photos, recorded, as videos, music, or done by/with the cell-phone.
Having a cell-phone is something ordinary this days, everybody has one and know how to use it. It is one of the most popular ways to comunicate.
In my opinion tfis is an excellent invention, i can call whoever i need or want while i am walking in the street, i can tell somebody something important in a seconds without having to wait to be in my house or found a public phone, one that's not out of order, that is really defficult!
There are people that is obsess with this and that cannot live without them, to me this is really stupid, before cell-phones were invented people live as good as now, this is not a necesary thing to live.
While i was doing this, i was thinking how technology is progrssing, i was using my cell-phone through the computer, sending messages from my pc. This shows that people is not happy having two thing from the last generation, they have to use them together...

Back to zero
The time's about to come
Let them know
You're not just anyone
Scream…

melii

Mobile phones

2008-05-25T09:25:00.000-07:00

What is a mobile phone really?

A mobile phone is a device created to make calls without having to use a telefone with a wire pluged to the socket, it works with a signal wich is communicated with a network, wich sends the signal to the other phone you are trying to call. Nowadays mobile phones are really small and normal, but some years ago, it wasn't. From a mobile phone, you can rather call, send an SMS text or a MMS. With an SMS you cann write whatever you want to say to the other person and he or she will receive it. With an MMS message you can send your vidoes, photos, sounds, or even send text too!. Since 2 years ago mostly, the mobile phones have digital cameras in them, and some even let you hear music!

My opinion
I think that in this society, mobile phones are handfull, you can be connected to your family and friends fast and easy. I have a mobile phone myself, and i like using it very much. A few years ago it was really rare that someone had a mobile phone, but in these days it's really normal.

Well, that's pretty much it, i hope you like it!

Juanso :P

Cell Phones!!!!!

2008-05-23T15:59:00.000-07:00

The cellular a type of wireless communication that is most familiar to mobile phones users. It's called 'cellular' because the system uses many base stations to divide a service area into multiple 'cells'. Cellular calls are transferred from base station to base station as a user travels from cell to cell.

The basic concept of cellular phones began in 1947, when researchers looked at crude mobile (car) phones and realized that by using small cells (range of service area) with frequency reuse they could increase the traffic capacity of mobile phones substantially. However at that time, the technology to do so was nonexistent.

The cellulars started to be used in the Second World War to communicate the soldiers. Then it was commercialized, first in USA, and then in the rest of the world. It has become the most popular thing for communication, exept for the Internet.In my opinion everything that helps communicating people is good, it all depends in what way do you use it. I don't think that we will be like robots and all that staff, please we are humans, not dogs that do what a smarter mind says!!!!!!

Bye,

Nacho

Mobile Phones!

2008-05-22T11:50:00.000-07:00

Hey! my name is Veronika and now, im going to write my opinion about mobile phones.

The cell phone is a old invent .It's a phone that you can take anywhere you go.A mobile phone need a battery, and without signal it doesn't work.You can recive calls or text mennsege, if you can't answer the calls you have a "voicemail".
A cell phone is small and it have lights .You can choose the ringtone that you like, you can also turn down the volume in case the phone goes of when you're in a meeting or in a sielence place .The price is over 150$ , but the good news is that the price will come down. Today everybody has a cell phone , so the communication can be very fast and reliable!
That is everything!!
See you soon...

Vero

Mobile Phones

2008-05-21T19:47:00.000-07:00

The mobile phone is a short-range, portable electronic device used for mobile voice or data communication over a network of specialized base stations known as cell sites. In addition to the standard voice function of a telephone, current mobile phones may support many additional services, and accessories, such as SMS for text messaging, email, packet switching for access to the Internet, java gaming, bluetooth, infrared, camera with video recorder and MMS for sending and receiving photos and video. Most current mobile phones connect to a cellular network of base stations ,which is in turn interconnected to the public switched telephone network . Since the mid-2000s, an increasing number of cellphones can connect to the Internet, a portion of which can be navigated using cellphones.

Well in my opinion, mobile phones are very important in the life of a human being. If we didn't have mobile phones, we couldn't talk to another person who is away from you. But you can also send SMS, and take pictures, make videos, and search in the internet...

well that's my second post! i hope you read it and enjoy it!
thank you very much...
bye bye! xoxo

noe

Funny picture

2008-05-21T19:38:00.000-07:00

hello again people, well in my first post i didn't put any photo, but now i will.
Well this is a funny picture, i didn't know what else to show. You might see later my pictures...
Okey thanks everyone again for this oportuniti.
Bye! xoxo

noe

Mobile Phones -

2008-05-21T17:36:00.000-07:00

Mobile Phones are a modern and portable electronic device wich has become a very popular fashion artifact. Even mobile phones started as phones, know they support many additional services, and accesories, such as SMS for text message, email, packet switching for access to the Internet, java gaming, bluetooth, infrared, camera with video recorder.

Mobile phones adquire their signal from base stations that are usually mounted on a tower, pole or building, located throughout populated areas. The phones have a low-power transceiver that transmits voice and data to the nearest cell sites, normally not more than 8 to 13 km away.

An increasing number of countries, particularly in Europe, now have more mobile phones than people. According to recent data, the European Union's in-house statistical office, Luxembourg had the highest mobile phone penetration rate at 158 mobile subscriptions per 100 people (158%), closely followed by Lithuania and Italy. In Hong Kong the penetration rate reached 139.8% of the population in July 2007.Over 50 countries have mobile phone subscription penetration rates higher than that of the population and the Western European average penetration rate was 110% in 2007. The U.S. currently has one of the lowest rates of mobile phone penetrations in the industrialized world at 85%.
There are over five hundred million active mobile phone accounts in China, as of 2007, but the total penetration rate there still stands below 50%.

Warnings about cell phones!

Studies from the Institute of Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute and researchers at the Danish Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen for example showed no link between mobile phone use and cancer.

The use of mobile phones by people who are driving has become increasingly common, either as part of their job, as in the case of delivery drivers who are calling a client, or by commuters who are chatting with a friend. While many drivers have embraced the convenience of using their cellphone while driving, some jurisdictions have made the practice against the law, such as the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador. Officials from these jurisdictions argue that using a mobile phone while driving is an impediment to vehicle operation that can increase the risk of road traffic accidents.

Men who use mobile phones on a regular basis lose about 30 percent of their active sperm cells. Those who carry their mobile phones in pockets of their pants are putting their potency at great danger. Scientists say that even in sleep mode mobile phones are harmful.[

Mobile Phones

2008-05-21T16:19:00.000-07:00

At the beginning, two-way radios were used in vehicles such as taxicabs, police cruisers, ambulances, and the like, but were not mobile phones because they were not normally connected to the telephone network. Users could not dial phone numbers from their mobile radios in their vehicles. A large community of mobile radio users, known as the mobileers, popularized the technology that would eventually give way to the mobile phone. Originally, mobile phones were permanently installed in vehicles, but later versions such as the so-called transportables or "bag phones" were equipped with a cigarette lighter plug so that they could also be carried, and thus could be used as either mobile or as portable two-way radios. During the early 1940s, Motorola developed a backpacked two-way radio, the Walkie-Talkie and later developed a large hand-held two-way radio for the US military. This battery powered "Handie-Talkie" (HT) was about the size of a man's forearm.

If we keep going on with this sutuation there's going to be a moment were everything is going to be technological and we are going to depend on the mobile phones and that's not good because we won't pay attention to the things that really important.
Mari

REMINDER

2008-05-21T16:00:00.000-07:00

Please, remember to participate in the surveys posted to your right. The results will be analyzed in class later.
Also, be kind and comment on your mates' posts and finally don't forget that Sunday it's your last day to post on mobile phones.
Thanks :)

CELL PHONES BY AYEEE :D

2008-05-20T19:16:00.000-07:00

Mobile phones

Mobile phones had begun in 1973….. Like others have told you before, but I will talk about the impacts that mobile phones made in people and the problems that cell phones can make on us.
The Scandinavian health authorities have run continuous long term studies of effects of mobile phone radiation effects to humans, and in particular children. Numerous studies have reported no significant relationship between mobile phone use and health. But one study that reviewed the link between cell phones and sperm quality found that heavy mobile phone users (4 hours per day) had significantly less viable sperm (who morphology score was less than half of the lower time mobile phone users). A prospective study of 13 normal men found that significantly increasing their mobile phone use (6 hours each day for 5 days) caused a marked short-term reduction of sperm quality. Men who use mobile phones on a regular basis lose about 30 percent of their active sperm cells. Those who carry their mobile phones in pockets of their pants are putting their potency at great danger. Scientists say that even in sleep mode mobile phones are harmful.
Another thing that I won’t to say is that cell phones make us being addictive because we are all the time looking on our phones and, in some cases of course if we don’t have our phones we feel strange.
My opinion is that cell phones are really useful because you can be communicated with your family and if you are alone and something happens to you, you can call somebody. By ayee.

Mobile phones xD

2008-05-20T19:11:00.000-07:00

Well,by this time our teacher asked us to write something about the revolution of mobile phones or just something about them.In this case i'd like to write something about the history of these phones and how they evolutioned into the latest ones.

1973
Motorola touts a prototype of the world's first mobile cellular phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. It's more than a foot long, weighs nearly 2 pounds and sells for $4,000. However, it wasn't commercially available until a decade later.

1982
Finish handset maker Nokia introduces its first mobile phone, the Nokia Mobira Senator. The device looks very much like a portable radio and it weighs a whopping 21 pounds.
1993
BellSouth/IBM unveil the world's first mobile phone with PDA features, including phone and pager functionality, calculator and calendar applications, as well as fax and e-mail capability. The BellSouth/IBM Simon Personal Communicator weighs 21 ounces and sells for $900.

1996
Motorola debuts its StarTAC mobile phone, merging fashion and functionality into the cell phone. It weighs 3.1 ounces--light by even today's standards--and it is a clam shell device.

2000
Kyocera introduces its QCP6035 mobile phone, the very first widely available Palm OS-based phone. It costs between $400 and $500 but only included 8MB of memory.

2002
Sanyo and Sprint make the Sprint SCP-5300 PCS available, and both companies claim it's the first mobile phone in the United States to include a digital camera. Image quality is, however, less than impressive.

2004
Motorola announces its RAZR v3 cell phone and starts a trend toward ultra-thin, stylish phones that's still influencing mobile device manufacturers today.

2006
The BlackBerry Pearl 8100 is the first from RIM to include a digital camera and media player and it's also the smallest, thinnest BlackBerry--currently, the company's 8800 series of devices are the thinnest it offers.

2007
Apple releases the iPhone, a beautifully designed device that includes an innovative--and much hyped up-touch screen navigation interface.
Well here you can see de diference between the old DynaTac and the new Iphone.

In my opinion the mobile phone really changed the society. All the world is more communicated and people have less difficulties in finding someone.But this brings some disadvantages too,people lose a lot of verbal communication because of this and reaching some critical level this destroys friendships and other relationships.But I personally think if people had a more mature vision on what they are doing and the harm they are doing to themselves, this problem would never become common.

Laj* ^^

RING RING, Mobile Phones.

2008-05-20T11:01:00.000-07:00

Well, this is my second post; a text about mobile phones. Our teacher asked us, to do a text about this invention, which changed the world. I want to write first of all about how it changed the society.

The first mobile phone was created in 1973. Before the mobile phones, the computers.

It has been a technological revolution since then.

The first phone is from 1876, at that time, no one had this new technology at home, it was impossible to call a friend, the only way to get communicated with another town was by mail, and it took at least a week to get the answer. We can't compare this with now, when if I want to send a message to my cousin in Brazil, it only takes two minutes with my cellphone: I write the message, write the number and then press the "send" button .

If we think about the efficiency of the cell phones, it is great: I can get communicated with anyone, anywhere, anytime.

We know that the human being is a social creature, we have to live with other human beings. We have to get involved in relationships and learn how to live with others...

But we have to ask ourselves... Is or is not the cellphone separating us from the world? I mean, I talk with a lot of friends every single day, using my cell phone, that I don't remmember the last time I really saw them. This situation makes me wonder if mobile phones are something positive or not. This small box, which contains a lot of keys, is isolating us from the REAL relationships.

In some way this is my opinion... But also I think that this invention is very useful. I just think that we shouldn't depend on it. I accept that I can't go out without my cell phone but I also meet my fiends and my family, I talk with them personally and not only using my mobile phone...

Today in Argentina there are 12 million mobile phones working, in Brazil there are more than 30 million, only in the USA there are 200 million. In the world there are ONLY (hehe) 1237 million cell phones working at this moment...

This is all for now :) see you soon =)

mari =)

Mobile Phones

2008-05-19T15:11:00.000-07:00

Many years ago...

two-way radios were used in vehicles such as taxicabs, police cruisers, ambulances for a faster communication, but were not mobile phones because they were not normally connected to the telephone network. Users could not dial phone numbers from their mobile radios in their vehicles. During the early 1940s, Motorola developed a backpacked two-way radio, the Walkie-Talkie and later developed a large hand-held two-way radio for the US military.

In 1947, Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young proposed hexagonal cells for mobile phones. Philip T. Porter proposed that the cell towers be at the corners of the hexagons rather than the centers and have directional antennas that would transmit/receive in 3 directions into 3 adjacent hexagon cells.
The first fully automatic mobile phone system, called MTA (Mobile Telephone system A), was developed by Ericsson and commercially released in Sweden in 1956. This was the first system that didn't require any kind of manual control, but had the disadvantage of a phone weight of 40 kg. MTB, an upgraded version with transistors, weighing 9 kg, was introduced in 1965.
In 1967, each mobile phone had to stay within the cell area serviced by one base station throughout the phone call. This did not provide continuity of automatic telephone service to mobile phones moving through several cell areas. In 1970 Amos E. Joel, Jr. invented an automatic "call handoff" system to allow mobile phones to move through several cell areas during a single conversation without loss of conversation.

FIRST GENERATION MOBILE PHONES (1G)
The first commercial launch of cellular telecoms was launched in 1979. In 1981 the NMT system was launched in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. This was the first mobile phone technology that allowed international use of the mobile phone or so-called "roaming".

SECOND GENERATION MOBILE PHONES (2G)
The first pre-commercial digital cellular phone call was made in the Unites States in 1990, in 1991 the first GSM network opened in Finland. 2G phone systems were characterized by digital circuit switched transmission and the introduction of advanced and fast phone to network signaling.

THIRD GENERATION MOBILE PHONES (3G)
Not long after the introduction of 2G networks, projects began to develop third generation (3G) systems. Inevitably there were many different standards with different contenders pushing their own technologies. Quite differently from 2G systems, however, the meaning of 3G has been standardized in the IMT-2000 standardization processing.

My opinion

I think that mobile phones are very important to communicate for example if you have broken a leg or just to say "mum, take me at the school, please". With a cell phone you can save lifes and you can talk with people you can never see. Many people use the portable phones to work. But like all the things, the mobile phones have an other side, "a bad side". Some people are addict to the cell phones and they can´t live without them. They are always using the phones, and I believe that is bad to be dominated by a piece of plastic! They depend everyday of the calls they receive or they make. In this respect life many years ago, without mobile phones, was better.
I have a lot of friends that always says "my cell phone is an essential item. I send text messages the whole day", and I can´t believe it!
I think that many times portable phones destroy great moments.

This is my research and my opinion about mobile phones.

Santi

Mobile Phones!

2008-05-19T13:26:00.000-07:00

Although mobile phones have taken over our current society, they have been around for several decades in some form or another. Beginning in the late 1940s, the technology that would later be used in today’s cell phones was created and the idea of a mobile phone was introduced. This cell technology was first used in mobile rigs which was mainly used in taxis, police cars and other emergency vehicles and situations. Truckers also used a form of this technology to communicate with each other. Little did they know how far their idea would advance to make it accessible to the majority of the population.
The first mobile phones were introduced to the public market in 1983 by the Motorola Company. These first mobile phones used analog technology.

In my opinion the mobile phone really changed the society. All the world is more communicate. But we can see a lot of people that is depraved. We can use cell phone but with consideration.

Eve*

mobile phones :D

2008-05-18T18:23:00.000-07:00

In 1950s the car phones appeared. These phones were very useful but they had some disadvantages. They were very big and heavy. Also people could make only two calls before the car battery went dead. In 1973 Mr Cooper took out his portable phone and made a call to a rival phone company while he was walking along a street in New York.
Ten years later came out a portable phone called "DynaTAC 8000x". At that time this new technology was awesome, but comparing it to nowadays it is the worst thing you can imagine xD.

Along the years these mobile phones became very popular. Now most of the people have al least one cell phone and they do everything with them. They can go to the internet, take pictures, watch videos, listen to music and lots of other things. People is very ambitious with this kind of things because they always want to have the newest, expensive and most popular phone. 10 years ago nobody thought this would happen. These phones help the people a lot, buy they also have disadvantages. People are depending much more on this technology and they are losing a lot of things like friends, family, pesonal communication, etc. They prefer playing with their portable phones than being with friends. I think is very important and useful to have a cell phone, but we have to use them with moderation.

Luquitas

Mobile phone..

2008-05-17T11:37:00.000-07:00

First there were two-way radios used in vehicles such as police cruisers, ambulances, etc. but were not mobile phones because they were not normally connected to the telephone network. Users could not dial phone numbers from their mobile radios in their vehicles. A large community of mobile radio users popularized the technology that would eventually give way to the mobile phone. Originally, mobile phones were permanently installed in vehicles, but later versions such as the so-called transportables that were equipped with a cigarette lighter plug so that they could also be carried, and thus could be used as either mobile or as portable two-way radios. During the early 1940s, Motorola developed a backpacked two-way radio, the walkie-talkie and later developed a large hand-held two-way radio for the US military.
In my opinion mobile phones are a practical invention because if you have a problem or something you can phone somebody.
There is something negative too, if you have all time the phone in your trousers or in your clothes in the future you can have problems in your body, for example if you are pregnant your baby can have problems. this is because of the electromagnetic waves.

ok this is my opinion on mobile phones..

bye bye
bren

“Mobile phones”

2008-05-16T15:31:00.000-07:00

History:
At the beginning, two-way radios (known as mobile rigs) were used in some vehicles, but were not mobile phones because they were not normally connected to the telephone network. Users could not dial phone numbers from their mobile radios in their vehicles.

During the early 1940s, Motorola developed a backpacked two-way radio, the Walkie-Talkie and later developed a large hand-held two-way radio for the US military. It was the size of a man’s forearm.
In 1970 Amos E. Joel, Jr., an engineer invented an automatic "call handoff" system to allow mobile phones to move through several areas during a single conversation without loss of conversation.
One of the first truly successful public commercial mobile phone networks was the ARP network in Finland, launched in 1971.
Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola, made the first US analogue mobile phone call on a larger prototype model in 1973.
The first handheld mobile phone to become commercially available to the US market was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, which received approval in 1983.
In the 1990s, “second generation” mobile phone systems began to be introduced.
Not long after the introduction “second generation” of networks, projects began to develop third generation (3G) systems. Now they are available almost everywhere and, who knows, maybe there will be a “fourth generation” in a few years.

My opinion:
I think the mobile phones are a controversial thing, on the one side it helps people to communicate and help to save lives (for example: in a survival situation), but on the other side, it complicates it. I know, it seems incoherent, but to me it has a logic, because new mobile phones appear each year (not to say every month) and people always want to have the newest, most expensive and with more things on it, but they don’t know that this makes their life more complicated and more dependent on technology. Not to mention the pollution that this produces. As you might have guessed, I am not a mobile phone lover, but we live in a world of consumism and technology and I will have to live with this…

In the future:
I don’t believe in people who say that in the future mobile phones will fit in a man’s ear, but I think that they will succeed and be more complex with the pass of a few decades, or even only years, good luck grown-up walkie-talkie!

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones

Marco

At Last!

2008-05-14T16:37:00.000-07:00

Hello.. Finally I can postt!!
It's been days since I've started trying to post!
Going to the important part in this post.. me! jaaj..
I want to tell you some things about me.. I'm a 15-year-old student, I study at Primo Capraro school, I like English really much and the bands that I listen to are all from the USA except for Tokio Hotel that's a German band. My hobbies are listening to music (all the time... something I do everywhere whenever I can...), painting (I like to paint but I have just few drawings that I really like), watching TV and eating.. I don't know if those really count but it's something I do all the time.
Another thing I really love doing is changing the color of my hair... I think that it shows how you feel or how you felt in different times of your life...right now I've changed my color into black like bill kaulitz' hair style when he was younger... the difference is that I can't "put up" my hair because the school doesn't allow me to...
Talking about the school... I really enjoy speaking the whole time with my friends and the breaks.. jaja no, I like subjects too, like Chemistry and Biology...
I would like to go at least once to the USA or England, and stay some time there learning how to pronounce some words and to have more understanding of the language...
okay.. Now i think you rather know me.
kisses
Melii
"the eyes of the city are counting the tears falling down, each one a promise
of everything you never found"

yeah!

2008-05-13T15:18:00.001-07:00

hii!
finally I can post..
Hi my name is bren and I am a student at Primo Capraro and a member of the blog.
I´m 15 years old. I had gone to the I.P.C since 1º year. I made a lots of friends and I am very happy with my group Palmeritas!!jaja
My hobbies are being with my friends, going out and staying all day with them, listening to music with them, eating with them, dancing with them, sleeping with them, fighting with them, laughing with them..
I play volleyball at Capraro´s team.
In winter I go skiing, we have a lot of fun. And in summer we go to the beach or I travel to visit my family...

okey i dont know what else to write about me..

see you tomorrow haha

bren

Hi everyone!!

2008-05-13T11:47:00.000-07:00

Hi! My name is Mari, I'm 15 years old and I'm a very happy girl. I'm one of the members of this blog that we made in the English class.
My hobbies are singing, dancing, writing, going out with friends, listening to music and being with my boyfriend!!. By the way, I have danced since I was 8 years old. I really enjoy it and I have fun all the time dancing. It really helps when you had had a bad day.
I live in Bariloche and I go to Primo Capraro school. I always talk with my friends about everything!!! I think that my friends know my all history, all my secrets and all the things that I have done or the things that I'm going to do.
Although I really like being with my boyfriend, but (because of that) I'm not studying the way I am supposed to study. Anyway I'm not a bad student...(I think) Haha
Well, enjoy the blog
See you next time
Marii!!!!

Hi people

2008-05-13T10:22:00.000-07:00

Hi partners, my name is Noelia. I'm 15 years old, I live in Bariloche and I go to Primo Capraro School. But I don't want to talk about me, I want to talk about this blog that we made just to be free of put whatever we want to say or express. I hope we enjoy doing this, and post a lot of funny and cute pictures! well everyone, that's the end of my post, I don't know what else to say so,
Goodbye Friends! :)

I'ill post a picture soon, because at this moment I don't have any photo in this computer =)
thanks for this opportunity

Mobile Phones

2008-05-12T17:25:00.000-07:00

Our second post consists of the advantages and disadvantages of mobile phones now and in the future. Get ready for students' research and posting of results! I hope you enjoy it!

Lidia, your teacher

2008-05-12T11:42:00.000-07:00

Hello, I´m Lidia, your teacher. Ana Claudia has invited me to this blog because we can do a project together. I don´t know if my english level is the same as yours (worst, in fact) but I will try to write. I hope that this space help us to do our project and allow us to get to know better.
I will tell you something of my life and my family.
I am married and I have 4 children. All of them are now outside Bariloche. My daughter Verónica is living in Neuquén and she has just married. The other children are studying in Buenos Aires. I listen to several kinds of music but "The Beatles" are the best!. And I like Charly Garcia, but when he was younger.
Good Bye!!!!!!!!!
Lidia

finally xD

2008-05-12T09:31:00.000-07:00

Finnaly I can write in this blog. I don´t know what happened, but that´s not important now xD . Thanks for your help Ana Claudia.
I´m Luquitas an other member from this blog. I´m 15 years old and I live in Bariloche with my family. We´re five; my 2 parents, my 1 sister and my brother :D.
I like skiing, cycling and playing handball. I love listening to music. I think is very important because I feel better sometimes when I´m sad. I listen rock, regueton and some of the slow music.
I´ll write soon

- El zurdi -

2008-05-12T04:49:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone :D I am Aye another member of this blog. I am 15 years old and I live in Bariloche. I like to play volleyball, dance, sing and go out with my friends. I am another palmerita :D I think that Danni, Hile and Bren had talked about us, we are 10 and we make lots of things together we spend a great time. Well my family is really big I have 6 sisters, 4 nephews, 2 parents and one dog jajaj that it's a summary of my family….

Well I hope you like it

That's all for now
Aye :D

Hi everyone!!

2008-05-11T17:10:00.000-07:00

Hello there! My name is Hile, that`s how everybody calls me. I am also a member of this blog. Right now I am 15 years and two weeks ago I had a birthday party, I really enjoyed it because there were the people I truly love.

I will tell you a little bit of my life, well I have been living in Bariloche all my life and when I was 3 years I started kindergarten at school Primo Capraro. I have two sisters, one is older and the other is younger.

In my spare time I love going out with friends, maybe going to have an ice cream and stuff like that. I have 9 best friends, we are a wonderful group and we love each other.

That´s all I can tell you for now...I hope you like it!

See you next time!

Hilee :)

Hi everyone!!!!

2008-05-09T11:13:00.001-07:00

My name is Nacho and I'm 15. I have lived in Bariloche since I was born and I have never travelled far away from here.

My family is pretty normal, I have one brother, two sisters and my parents of course. I like spending my time with them,when I'm not working for school...

I love music. I play the piano and my favorite composer is Charly Garcia.

I also like "Lost" and I recommend it to every one.

See you,

Nacho

Leo

2008-05-07T16:40:00.001-07:00

Hello everyone, my name is Leonardo Pablo but my friends call me Leo. What can I tell you about me? Well I'm a tall guy, with dark hair and brown eyes.
I Loveeee doing sport, specially handball other Martial Arts. I have recently started Pakua, Pakua is a millennarian Martial art like Kung-Fu.
Well that's pretty much my story so I'll leave you.
C-yaaa

Hi everyone :D

2008-05-07T06:37:00.000-07:00

helloooooo :)
I'm caroo , i´m 15 years old and i'm one of the members of this website.
I think that this blog is very interesting because here we have the opportunity to upload and share our personal and group things :)
Well now i will write about myself.
I was born in 1993 a i've lived all my life in Bariloche. I started going to Capraro school when i was 5 years old. I've also started studying English in an Institute in primary school.
In my spare time i go to Hip Hop classes, i play Handball and i spend time with my friends.
I also like to dance in parties, chat with my friends in the computer and watch films on TV.
Well that's all for now, hope you have enjoyed to know me :)
OUR BLOG RULEESS :P
caaaro

Hiiiiii!!! =)

2008-05-07T05:51:00.000-07:00

I`m Danii. I am another student that created this blog.
Now I`m 15 years old, I live in Bariloche. I have 3 sisters and 1 brother. Here in Bariloche there are 5 people in my family: My parents, my sister Renata, and my brother Juan.
I have been studying at Capraro since I was 6. I have a nice group of friends. We are the palmeritas. =) We are 10 friends, we spend all the time together.
My favourite sport is volleyball, I play 5 times a week. I also like playing volleyball, go out with my friends, parties, watching TV, etc.
On winter holidays I always ski with my friends. I love it, we have a lot of fun together.
I listen to a lot of reggaeton!! I love dancing with my friends.. =)
ehhh locaa..yeaa..
So... I think I have finished... that`s all..
I hope you like it. =D

Bye!
Danii "/

2008-05-06T19:56:00.000-07:00

Hello there, I'm Marina

2008-05-06T11:45:00.000-07:00

Hello, I'm one of the students that created this blog. This first post is to introduce ourselves. A few hours ago, I was wondering about how it is going to be when I open this blog in 10 years...
Now I'm 15, I live in Bariloche with my parents and my grandmother. My mom is brazilian, so I travel almost every summer to see my friends in San Pablo.
I have studied at Capraro since I was 4. So I know almost all my friends from years. I spend most of the time at school, in English or Portuguese classes or hanging out with my friends I also play basketball, and in winter I go skiing. I love spending time with my firends, it doesn't matter where or when- with them it is always fun :)
In the future I want to study something like Politics or Philosophy but I'm not sure yet... I still have time to think about it. But I would like to study in Córdoba, or in San Pablo.

Well, this is all for the moment.
I'll see you in the next homework x)

Marii :) 3rd class ruleees.

Hey everyone!

2008-05-05T18:04:00.000-07:00

Hi! I'm also one of the editors of this blog. We created it as a project for our english class and my classmates and I are very exited about it! Our blog rules!

Our first asignment was to write a little bit about ourselves...

My name is Caro. I'm 15 years old and was born in Bariloche. I like living here a lot, because there's always something to do. In winter, I like skiing and I enjoy the snow. In my spare time I always hung around with my friends and go partying. In summer I enjoy going to the lake. I also like watching TV, my favourite series are Friends and The OC xD, and I also like 2& a half men, because it makes me laugh a lot.

I live with my mum and my younger sister Paula. My grandmother lives also here but my dad lives in Buenos Aires, like most of my family, so I usually go there on holiday. I love travelling, specially when I go abroad.

Well, I guess that's all. I hope you liked it.

LOVE 3ro : ) hah

Caro f,

Hi There!

2008-05-05T17:25:00.000-07:00

Hello, my name is Juan and i'm also one of the writers from this blog. I think we have to thank Ana Claudia for making our english classes so much fun! I preffer this than books!xD .

Our first assignment was to make a short introduction of ourselves, and that's what im going to tell you here:I'm 15 years old, I was born in Buenos Aires and 4 years ago i moved to Bariloche with my parents. I like Bariloche more than I like Buenos Aires, because you are in contact with the wild life, and you can have some fresh air xD.

In my free time, i play football or volleyball, I play games in the computer, and i fool around with my friends. I also watch Tv, i like watching funny programms like "Grounded for life" or "Two and a half man". Well, that's pretty much it. I hope you like my introduction.

See You Soon!

Juansoo :P

2008-05-05T17:18:00.000-07:00

Hi !!!
I`m Maca and i`m also one of the writers of this blog.This is a project of our English class, and it`s so much funnier than the books!!Well the teacher asked us to write about ourselves...
I lived all my life in Bariloche, but I was born in Buenos Aires. I love Bariloche but sometimes is a bit bored because is so small that you always have to do the same things...
But i like it because every season has something nice...In winter you can ski, that's one of the best things of here!!! I love skiing!It s great.In summer you can go to the lake with your friends or if you have a boat you can ride it!
I spend most of my free time sleeping, watching TV programs like "The OC" but I don't have a favorite TV program,last year I saw "Casi Angeles" but I get bored.Reading books like Harry Potter or doing nothing....
I think English is a very important language because it is the universal language and you can travel or get a job with it...
Well people I think I`ve finished...
Bye everyone!!

2008-05-05T17:10:00.000-07:00

Hi, I'm maru

My name is Marianela W H. I am fifteen years old.I live in Bariloche with my older sister, Daiana, who is sixteen; with my little brother, Brian, he is eleven, and with my parents.
I was born in Mar del Plata and I had lived there for five years when I moved to Buenos Aires, where I lived until last year.
I like the National Rock and the Punk-Rock. My favourite subject is Mathematics. I don't like the meat and the potatoes. I would like to visit Miami's beaches, England, Paris, Spain, Brazil, The Caribbean and New York City.
I have no pets but I like the dogs.
I had been in three diferent High Schools.I would like to go to a University in Mar del Plata.
My favourite sport is Basketball, but I don't like Volleyball and Handball.
Well it's all I know about me.
This photo is La Vela Puerca, a spectacular group of music that I like so much.
bye!!!!

Hello everyone ^^

2008-05-05T16:33:00.000-07:00

Bob :)
Well hello everyone :) This is the second time I try to post in the blog :S the other time I tried to put a picture and all was erased :S well I ll introduce myself,My name is Nico better known as "laj" or "gordo".I'm one of the many writers of this blog,which is beginning the long journey to be the best blog ever,, no santy?? yeeeaaaa I have to thank Ana Claudia,because she's making our English classes fun :) and she'd started with the idea of the blog :)
Well I'll talk a little bit about my life :).I was born in 1993 in Bariloche.I have a usual family (my parents,1 brother and a sister)They both live in Buenos Aires)I love sports because they make me fell fit and the fill me body with adrenaline :) I practise handball and inwinter I compete in skiing :),,and I usually go to the gim to :) :) Well I love music too.I hear a lot of reggae and I love Bob Marley :P I hear a lot of cumbia,cuarteto,electro/techno music too,,and metal :P .I almost forgot I love to party too XD
Well thats all for today :)
3ª rules
Love them all XXD

Hello! I'm Franco!

2008-05-05T15:20:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone!

My name is Franco and I'm one of the writers of this blog. All my classmates had told you why we decided to make this blog, so I won't do it again. : )

I'm from Bariloche and I'm 15 years old. I love sports and I play voleyball and football with my friends almost every day. I love sleeping, I'm always very tired because of my activities, and I like listening to music and chatting too. In winter I practise snowboard and in summer I like going to the beach and camping with friends.I also love fishing, it's my hobby.

I have a big family, I have 2 brothers and 2 sisters. My eldest sister lives in Buenos Aires with her boyfriend and my eldest brother lives there too, but alone. And the rest of us, we all live in Bariloche.

Well, that´s all for today..

you will hear from me soon!

GOOD LUCK 3rd CLASS!

Fran ! :D

FISHING !

Hi! I'm Eve!

2008-05-05T09:47:00.000-07:00

Hi!!
My name is Evelyn and I am too one of the writes of this blog. I think that everyone in the class liked the idea. I didn't like so much the books, I like the computer, so this is another way to study Enlish and for me is funnier. I had visited others blogs from differents subjects.
I spend a lot of time in the computer! Of course I am not all the day in the computer... I play volleyball,
I go to Britannia Institute, the last year i didn't like English but this year I am more excited and I
know that I need English for my future. I study German too. We go to a german school. I hope that the
next year I can go to Germany. It is a unforgettable experience.
My favourite kind of music is hip hop and rap because I like the lyrics and the way that they express their
feelings. My favourite singers are Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dog, Tupac, Coolio and some bands like
Bone Thugs n' armony, Koxmox and more.

COOLIO

SNOOP DOG

LUDACRIS

I live with my mother in a departament. I have 5 sisters but they are older than me and they are studying
in different places.
My favorite subject is History and I really hate Matemathics!

I hope that everyone likes the blog!

Eve...

2008-05-05T07:37:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! I´m Santi

2008-05-05T07:25:00.001-07:00

Hello everyone! My name is Santiago Gutierrez and i´m writing for the best blog of the world!!! This is an interessant project that we started arround two weeks ago.
I want to write some about me...
Well at first I want to say that i was born in San Juan in 1993. I lived there for six years and me and my parents came here to Bariloche.
I have three brothers. One is living with me and the other two are studing and working in Cordoba.
I come to the Primo Capraro School since the second grade. I´m very happy in this school.
I spend my free time playing football, volleyball, watching TV, playing computer games, sleeping, playing the guitar and reading books. I love reading books like Harry Potter ( I read the last one in english!).

In winter I ski. I love skiing. I think it´s the best winter sport.

I love too fly fishing in the summer...: )
My favourite music bands are The Beatles and Coldplay.

The best blog ever!!!
Congratulations Ana Claudia!
Our blog rules!
Well 3º, good luck with this blog!!!
the best wishes
Santi