William ockham!

William of Ockham, born in the village of Ockham in Surrey (England) about 1285, was the most influential philosopher of the 14th century and a controversial theologian.
He entered the Franciscan order at an early age and took the traditional course of theological studies at Oxford. Strong opposition to his opinions from members of the theological faculty prevented him from obtaining his Master's degree. His teaching had also aroused the attention of Pope John XXII, who summoned him to the papal court in Avignion (France) in 1324.
The charges against him were presented by Jogh Lutterell, the former chancellor of the university of Oxford. Ockham was never condemned, but in 1327, while residing in Avignion, he became involved in the dispute over apostolic poverty. When this controversy reached a critical stage in 1328, and the Pope was about to issue a condemnation of the position held by the Franciscans, Ockham and two other Franciscans fled from Avignion to seek the protection of Emperor Louis IV, the Bavarian.
They followed the emperor to Munich (Germany) in 1330, where Ockham wrote fervently against the papacy in a series of treatises on papal power and civil sovereignty. The medieval rule of parsimony, or principle of economy, frequently used by Ockham came to be known as Ockham's razor. The rule, which said that plurality should not be assumed without necessity (or, in modern English, keep it simple, stupid), was used to eliminate many pseudo-explanatory entities.
It is believed that he died in a convent in Munich in 1349, a victim of the Black Death. His name, spelled Occam, lives on in the names of streets and restaurants in Munich ... and in the brave new world of high-performance safety-critical parallel computing.

Credits: Wikipedia

How I meet your Mother!

It is a comedy series, created by Carter Bays, Craig Thomas and directed by Pamela Fryman and Rob Greenberg. His release date is on 19 of september of 2005.

Ted Mosby is the main character of this series, where in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting their mother, which explains the title and allows for a narration.How I Met Your Mother's other main characters are Marshall Eriksen, Robin Scherbatsky, Barney Stinson, and Lily Aldrin. Thomas and Bays drew from their friendship in creating the characters, with Ted based loosely on Bays, and Marshall and Lily based loosely on Thomas and his wife.

In September 2008, it was announced that Lifetime Television purchased the syndication rights to How I Met Your Mother at a rate of $750,000 per episode. Inspired by "our friends and the stupid stuff we did in New York," How I Met Your Mother is Bays and Thomas' idea.

The show usually features multiple flashbacks in each episode. This effect has been dubbed "deep frying" the story, a reference to the show's director, Pamela Fryman. Laughter is not recorded until the episode is shown to a live audience after it has been completely edited together. Sometimes scenes incorporate a studio audience, depending on the set structures.

The bar "MacLaren's", in which some of the show is set, is based on a bar in New York called McGee's. It has a mural that Carter Bays and Craig Thomas both liked and wanted to incorporate into the show.

In the year 2030, Ted Mosby gathers his daughter and son to tell them the story of how he met their mother. The story begins in 2005, when Ted decides what to do with his life and he wants to have married like his best friends Marshall Eriksen and Lyli Aldrin.

Barney his other "best friend" like he says, told him that women's dreams will not fall from the sky. And since Ted meets her really wife, occur several anecdotes and many girls don't reciprocated.

Is one of my favourite series, I love it!

Credits: IMDb and wikipedia

NetherlandS

I've don't have been never in Netherlands, but when I've been 20 years, I have to take an aire plane and go to have fun In Netherlands.

My mother have visited and she told me, that it was an interesting experience. She says the weather were so bad, so cloudy and cold. She bring me one artistic preservative but it was to decorate my bedroom. Though the weather was bad, she was impressed with Amsterdam, she likes a lot the city, and she told me that most people were with bicycles and not with cars.

The Netherlands is faumous for the coffe shops, sex shops, etc. There the marijuana is not prohibited, and young people want be there, to have fun. Apart from that, the capital, Amsterdam is famous for his "rivers" in the city. The Netherlands is a densely populated country. It is known for its traditional windmills, tulips, cheese, clogs (wooden shoes), delftware and gouda pottery, for its bicycles, and in addition, traditional values and civil virtues such as its classic social tolerance.

Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands is one of the first parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy.

Netherlands has signed the Kyoto protocol. With Belgium and Luxembourg it forms the Benelux economic union.

I think Netherlands don't have negative aspects, only the cloudy and cold weather, but I like so much Netherlands and I'm impressed with the big social tolerance.

The positive aspects are the social tolerance, the kyoto protocol, the bicycles opretaion and more positive aspects. I want visit Amsterdam with my friends for 1 month in a tipical hostel to be happy!

My positive conclusion is that Netherlands is one of my favourite contry for all I have says before and I will visit one time of my live!

El Mas de Noguer!

This is a green hostel, a group of people who wants to help the environment and to teach people the self-management, sustainability and diversification.

Last week, we go there, we only go three days but it was interesting.
The first day, at the morning, we take the train to Caudiel, and then we must to walk two or three ours, to arrive at "El Mas de Noguera". In the countryside landscape was very nice, but we were so tired and we were angry because the water was finish. After we arrive and have lunch, the teachers Ana and Eda say us, that we have to go at the cave, then we take a shower and the dinner, and at nit we play funny games like: fisrt do the teams, and then we have to do; an interesting hair, who can put him more clothing, etc.

The second day, was better because we didn't have to walk more. We do two groups, my group do first field work, we plant: cabbage, lettuce and leeks, while the other group do pizzas. After we have lunch we change, they go at field and we do some cookies, then we all eat the pizzas but the cookies no. after that we haver a shower, the dinner and then we do a "party".

Third day, that was the last day. After we take breakfast, we can eat our cookies, were delicious, but then we must to walk more. We see more mountain, more trees, etc. then we take the bus and returnd to Valencia!

Credits: Mas de noguera page

Web 2!

The term Web 2.0 was coined by Tim O'Reilly in 2004 to refer to a second generation of Web-based user communities and a range of special services such as social networks, blogs, wikis or folksonomy, which promote agile collaboration and exchange of information between users.

The original concept of the Web (in this context, called Web 1.0) was static HTML pages that were not updated frequently. The success of the dot-com sites depended on more dynamic (sometimes called Web 1.5) where CMS served dynamic HTML pages created on the fly from an updated database. In both respects, getting hits (visits) and visual aesthetics were considered as very important factors. The proponents of the approach to Web 2.0 believe that the use of the site is aimed at interaction and social networks that can serve content that exploits the effects of networks or not creating visual and interactive websites. In other words, websites 2.0 acting more as meeting points, or webs dependent users, as traditional webs.

Credits: Wikipedia

The technology and educatioN!

First, access to technology is not everything. To have and use a TV or a microwave oven does not know "get the juice", "seize". The microwave oven is a good example. It is an exponent of technology. We know that cooking faster. And nothing else. Ah, some say that their emissions cause cancer. It's a simple choice: if I want to save time or if I have fear. If I get carried away by advertising or if I get carried away by my concern. By failing to see beyond, to not imagine "how things would be" used and if they knew whether various ways to use it, is a matter of yes or no. But if we were there, only act on impulse, for reaction. I need to know more about the benefits and I need to know more about the conditions under which I can use it safely. I need to "learn" to use it to my advantage.

The important part is the formation of the criterion: where and when to use NOT use, when I should (or should my family, my students) and when not appropriate.

The technology is at the service of human beings. And the human being in society is called citizen. THE citizen acts to be better and help your society to be better. To do this, you need to act taking into account the consequences of their actions, conscientiously. You need to act with knowledge, we must all act together (that is what experts call "knowledge society"). And in relation to technology, before using it, we know it. Only then we will return some "consumers" of technology, but develop the technology as having a positive impact for us citizens.

Finally, where is the technology? The technology is not only the equipment (computer, the microwave oven), is the social activity of improving the world through science. So do people with their knowledge. The technology is in the mind of what you are looking for optimal or the best with his knowledge. So the important thing is not learn to manage technology, but learn to be citizens in a knowledge society.

ArCtic MonKeys!

Arctic Monkeys are an English Indie band from High Green, a suburb of Sheffield. Formed in 2002, the band currently is formed for Alex Turner on lead vocals and guitar, Jamie Cook on guitar, Matt Helders on drums and backing vocals and Nick O'Malley on bass guitar and backing vocals, who replaced Andy Nicholson.

Now something of his history.

In 2001, neighbours Turner and Cook asked for instruments as Christmas presents and both received guitars. After teaching themselves to play, the pair formed a band with Turner's schoolmates Andy Nicholson and Matt Helders. Nicholson already played bass, so Helders ended up on drums—"that was all that were left...they all had guitars so I bought a kit after a bit." An article in Blender magazine in May 2006 suggested that Turner was not the original vocalist of the band: "When their first vocalist, Glyn Jones, left after a few months, Turner cautiously stepped up to the microphone." This was soon followed by a more detailed article in UK tabloid The Sun, who reported that in the very early days of the band — before they had played a gig — Glyn Jones, another attendee of Stocksbridge High School, used to be the band's singer. Jones said that he and Turner "were bored [after our GCSE exams] so we started writing a song about a geek in our year...". Jones says that he was lead singer only because "Alex was really humble and didn’t realise how great his own voice was... he was happy just playing his guitar." However, Jones says that he "did not have the dedication to take it any further... to me we were just a gang of kids messing around because we were bored." Although reports suggested they named themselves after Helders' uncle's (or even father's) band, Helders later admitted that these reports were false, claiming "we made that up ‘cause we got so many people asking us that in the UK, so we just started making stories up", and that he just didn't have the heart to tell the original reporter he'd been lying.

The Arctic Monkeys achieved chart success with their first single, "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor", which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart. Their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, released in January 2006, was at the time the fastest-selling debut album in British music history, surpassing Oasis' Definitely Maybe. It remains the fastest-selling debut album for a group. It received critical acclaim, winning both the 2006 Mercury Prize and the 2007 Brit Award for Best British Album. The band's second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, was released on 23 April 2007, sold over 225,000 copies in its debut week, and was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Prize. The group also picked up the award for Best British Album and Best British Group at the Brit Awards in 2008.

I love Arctic Monkeys!

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Isabel Allende

I don't usually read much, but when I read "La ciudad de las bestias" one of her books that I like very much, and this book is the first form the trilogy of: "La ciudad de las bestias", "El reino del dragón de oro" and "El bosque de los pigmeos", I have read two books of this trilogy. These books are about a boy and a girl, Alexandre Cold meets Nadia Santos when Alexander and his grandmother kate undertake a travel of the Internacional Geographic magazine, where kate works, to Brazil, and after that Nadia, Alexander and Kate have more adventures in the Tibet and in Africa.

Isabel allende was born in Lima, Peru, August 7, 1942, where his father was intended as a diplomat. He attended various private schools and traveled through several countries before returning to Santiago, Chile to complete their studies and work in the Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO), United Nations agency. In 17 years in Chile began his career as a journalist, wrote articles on highly controversial issues. Furthermore made film and television. His personal life is marked by the history of Chile, the country had to abandon in 1975 when the situation became untenable after the murder of his uncle in the military coup led by Augusto Pinochet.

In 1962, he married Miguel Frias, who has two children: Paula and Nicolas. Was divorced in 1987. In exile he wrote his first novel when a letter written on the occasion of the death of his grandfather eventually become his first novel, "The House of the Spirits" (1982), a family chronicle set in the whirlwind of political and economic changes developments in Latin America. The novel was well received by critics, who saw in it some elements of magic realism, a literary technique that involves mixing the real with the supernatural and whose principal exponent is the Colombian novelist awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature Gabriel García Márquez . This novel was made into a film by Danish director Bille August.

Credits: Isabel allende Biography

Present Perfect Continuous!

The present perfect continuous is formed with: has/have + been + present participle.

Ex:
You have been waiting here for two hours.
Have you been waiting here for two hours?
You have not been waiting here for two hours.

We use the Present Perfect Continuous to show that something started in the past and has continued up until now. "For five minutes," "for two weeks," and "since Tuesday" are all durations which can be used with the Present Perfect Continuous.

Ex:
They have been talking for the last hour.
She has been working at that company for three years.
What have you been doing for the last 30 minutes?
James has been teaching at the university since June.
We have been waiting here for over two hours!
Why has Nancy not been taking her medicine for the last three days?

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Present Perfect Simple!

The present perfect simple is formed with: has/have + past participle.

Ex:
You have seen that movie many times.
Have you seen that movie many times?
You have not seen that movie many times.

We use the present perfect to say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now. The exact time is not important. You can't use the present perfect with specific time expressions such as: yesterday, one year ago, last week, when I was a child, when I lived in Japan, at that moment, that day, one day, etc. We can use the present perfect with unspecific expressions such as: ever, never, once, many times, several times, before, so far, already, yet, etc.

Ex:
I have seen that movie twenty times.
I think I have met him once before.
There have been many earthquakes in California.
People have traveled to the Moon.
People have not traveled to Mars.
Have you read the book yet?
Nobody has ever climbed that mountain.

Credits: Present perfect simple