Hoy toca hablar de una leyenda, Michael Jackson. Se marchó, de repente, sin decir nada, y nadie se lo esperaba.. Pero bueno, la vida es así, y no vale la pena recordarlo por todos los supuestos problemas que tenía, ya que luego salieron los propios causantes a decir la verdad, lo único que querían era sacarle el dinero, y eso no puede ser.. Hay que recordarlo por lo que de verdad se merece, su música y su manera de bailar, sin duda ha dejado huella en nuestra historia, por lo menos en la mia.
Se movía de manera única y le salía de dentro, vivía la música, la sentía suya.. Él era puro arte, y en la película "This is it" lo demuestra. La película esta hecha a base de grabaciones de sus ultimos ensayos que Michael pensaba guardarlos para su disfrute personal. En la película se demuestra que no estaba acabado como la gente decía y que iba a ser un espectáculo impresionante con todas las letras I-M-P-R-E-S-I-O-N-A-N-T-E.
En fin, no me queda mucho mas que decir..
Michael Joseph Jackson, gracias por todo.

William of 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.

Present Perfect Simple & Present Perfect Continuous

PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE

Form:

[has/have + past participle]

USE:

1-e use the Present Perfect to say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now. The exact time is not important. You CANNOT 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.
Examples:
·I have seen that movie twenty times.
·I think I have met him once before.
·There have been many earthquakes in California.

2-With Non-Continuous Verbs and non-continuous uses of Mixed Verbs, we use the Present Perfect 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.
Examples:
·I have had a cold for two weeks.
·She has been in England for six months.

PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

Form:

[has/have + been + present participle]

USE:

1-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.
Examples:
·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?

2-You can also use the Present Perfect Continuous WITHOUT a duration such as "for two weeks." Without the duration, the tense has a more general meaning of "lately." We often use the words "lately" or "recently" to emphasize this meaning.
Examples:
·Recently, I have been feeling really tired.
·She has been watching too much television lately.
·Have you been exercising lately?

My favourite writer.

That is a very difficult question, i don't have a favourite writer, there are a lot of good writers and i like all of them.


The typical thing to say its.. oh! i like very much J.K. Rowling, but this is very.. simple, harry potter is great but we have to read more books.

These are some of my favorite writers:



·Stephenie Morgan Meyer (born December 24, 1973) is an American author. She is the author of the books The Host and Twilight, along with Twilight's sequels New Moon, Eclipse, and the recently released Breaking Dawn.

Meyer says that the idea for Twilight came to her in a dream about a human girl and a vampire, who was in love with her but thirsted for her blood, sitting in a meadow on June 2, 2003, the transcript of which is now Chapter 13 of the book. After writing and editing the novel, she signed a three-book deal with Little, Brown and Company for $750,000.



·Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author, screenwriter, musician, columnist, actor, film producer and director. Having sold over 350 million copies of his books, King is best known for his work in horror fiction, in which he demonstrates a thorough knowledge of the genre's history. He has also written science fiction, fantasy, short-fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, teleplays and stageplays. Many of his stories have been adapted for other media, including movies, television series and comic books. King has written a number of books using the pen name Richard Bachman and one short story where he was credited as John Swithen. In 2003 he received The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.



·Federico Moccia was born in Rome, Italy, on November 10, 1963. After the artistic world worked in as set designer and scriptwriter of programs of television entered the field of the literature. Until the year 2008 it has published in Italian three works: Tre metri sopra il cielo, Ho voglia di te and Scusa ma you chiamo amore, that last has sold more than three million copies. The translations of these titles are frequent thanks to the enormous acceptance of his prose between the young and teen readers of the whole world. His works have happened to be a real point of reference to several generations of new readers, who meet reflected in the genuineness of his histories.

Web 2.0

·What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 is a living term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. The term became notable after the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users utilize the Web.



Web 2.0 websites typically include some of the following features/techniques:
·Cascading Style Sheets to aid in the separation of presentation and content
·Folksonomies (collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging)
·Microformats extending pages with additional semantics
·REST and/or XML- and/or JSON-based APIs
·Rich Internet application techniques, often Ajax and/or Flex/Flash-based
·Semantically valid XHTML and HTML markup
·Syndication, aggregation and notification of data in RSS or Atom feeds
·mashups, merging content from different sources, client- and server-side
·Weblog-publishing tools
·wiki or forum software, etc., to support user-generated content
·Internet privacy, the extended power of users to manage their own privacy in cloaking or deleting their own user content or profiles.

Past Simple & Past Continuous

PAST SIMPLE

Form:

[VERB+ed] or irregular verbs.

USE:

1-Use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past. Sometimes, the speaker may not actually mention the specific time, but they do have one specific time in mind.
Examples:
·I saw a movie yesterday.
·I didn't see a play yesterday.
·Last year, I traveled to Japan.

2-We use the Simple Past to list a series of completed actions in the past. These actions happen 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and so on.
Examples:
·I finished work, walked to the beach, and found a nice place to swim.
·He arrived from the airport at 8:00, checked into the hotel at 9:00, and met the others at 10:00.

3- The Simple Past can be used with a duration which starts and stops in the past. A duration is a longer action often indicated by expressions such as: for two years, for five minutes, all day, all year, etc.
Examples:
·I lived in Brazil for two years.
·Shauna studied Japanese for five years.

4-The Simple Past can also be used to describe a habit which stopped in the past. It can have the same meaning as "used to." To make it clear that we are talking about a habit, we often add expressions such as: always, often, usually, never, when I was a child, when I was younger, etc.
Examples:
·I studied French when I was a child.
·He played the violin.
·He didn't play the piano.

5-The Simple Past can also be used to describe past facts or generalizations which are no longer true. As in USE 4 above, this use of the Simple Past is quite similar to the expression "used to."
Examples:
·She was shy as a child, but now she is very outgoing.
·He didn't like tomatoes before.

PAST CONTINUOUS

Form:

[was/were + present participle]

USE:

1-Use the Past Continuous to indicate that a longer action in the past was interrupted. The interruption is usually a shorter action in the Simple Past. Remember this can be a real interruption or just an interruption in time.
Examples:
·I was watching TV when she called.
·When the phone rang, she was writing a letter.
·While we were having the picnic, it started to rain.

2-In USE 1, described above, the Past Continuous is interrupted by a shorter action in the Simple Past. However, you can also use a specific time as an interruption.
Examples:
·Last night at 6 PM, I was eating dinner.
·At midnight, we were still driving through the desert.

3-When you use the Past Continuous with two actions in the same sentence, it expresses the idea that both actions were happening at the same time. The actions are parallel.
Examples:
·I was studying while he was making dinner.
·While Ellen was reading, Tim was watching television.
·Were you listening while he was talking?

4-In English, we often use a series of parallel actions to describe the atmosphere at a particular time in the past.
Example:
·When I walked into the office, several people were busily typing, some were talking on the phones, the boss was yelling directions, and customers were waiting to be helped. One customer was yelling at a secretary and waving his hands. Others were complaining to each other about the bad service.

5-The Past Continuous with words such as "always" or "constantly" expresses the idea that something irritating or shocking often happened in the past. The concept is very similar to the expression "used to" but with negative emotion. Remember to put the words "always" or "constantly" between "be" and "verb+ing."
Examples:
·She was always coming to class late.
·He was constantly talking. He annoyed everyone.

Present Simple & Present Continuous

PRESENT SIMPLE

FORM
· [VERB] + s/es in third person



USE

·Verb tense used to talk about daily activities or routines; regular habits; permanent or long-lasting situations; timetables and schedules. Some usual expressions employed with the present simple: usually, always, often, sometimes, on Saturdays, at weekends (on weekends US English), rarely, on occasion, never, seldom.



EXAMPLES



To express the idea that an action is repeated or usual


·I play tennis.
·She does not play tennis.
·Does he play tennis?
·The train leaves every morning at 8 AM.
·The train does not leave at 9 AM.



To talk about scheduled events in the near future.


The train leaves tonight at 6 PM.
The bus does not arrive at 11 AM, it arrives at 11 PM.
When do we board the plane?
The party starts at 8 o'clock.
When does class begin tomorrow?

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

FORM
[am/is/are + present participle]

1-We use the Present Continuous Tense to talk about activities happening now.
Examples:

The kids are watching TV.

I am sitting down, because I am tired.

I am not learning German, because this is an English class.

Who are you writing to?

2-We can also use the Present Continuous Tense to talk about activities happening around now, and not necessarily this very moment.
Examples:

Sally is studying really hard for her exams this week.

I am reading a really interesting book now.

How are you brushing up on your English for the trip?

We aren't working hard these days.

3-The Present Continuous Tense is also used to talk about activities happening in the near future, especially for planned future events.
Examples:

I am seeing my dentist on Wednesday.

Polly is coming for dinner tomorrow.

Are you doing anything tonight?

We aren't going on holiday next week.

Fallas 2008!!

Las Fallas is a feast held from 14 to 19 March in some cities and towns in the Community of Valencia (Spain), including mainly in Valencia. Also called feasts josefinas or festes de Sant Josep (Valencia) are held in honor of St. Joseph, patron saint of carpenters. It is designated as International Tourist Interest party. The denomination fault lies with the construction of artistic combustible materials as a whole, representing figures known as ninots and compositions of elements. Throughout history materials have evolved, but traditionally, these were ninots paper, wood and cardboard. Currently the most voluminous are made of cork white, as they allow more light and forms larger. In Valencia, with the habit of extending the name to all aspects, it also extends to the generic name of the holiday as well as the grouping of neighbors who are neplačila the commission, its members being known as falleros and Falleras. Each committee neplačila, each group falleros, ground fault (a monument) entering contest.

My fallas: It started the night of the 14th with my school party, it was very good, like always, after the party, we went to a restaurant. The next day (Saturday 15th) I went to the MAXIMA FM party, this was excellent!! good music, good people, all was good, a perfect night, and after the party, we went to the "rio" to see the "castillo", that night was very good; the next days, was always party, at nights, we went to the places with music and young people, i like that very much, in special, the night of tuesday 18th, i think it was the most perfect night in all fallas; and the last day, la "cremà", I saw the "cremà" of the falla Maestro Gozalbo, it started at 3:25 aprox, and finished at 4:00 -4:15.

It was the best fallas i have lived in all my life!

Christmas presents..

My street...