Future in 20 years by Santi

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 ??

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?

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?

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

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

New Zealand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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!!

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

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Reggae Music

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...

"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

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

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

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

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)

the beatles :)

The beatles

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

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

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...

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