Lethargy.

Web.2

2008-09-02T03:29:00.000-07:00

Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, information sharing, and collaboration among users. These 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.

Definition
Web 2.0 has numerous definitions. Basically, the term encapsulates the idea of the proliferation of interconnectivity and social interactions on the Web.

Characteristics
Web 2.0 web site that allows users to upload and share photosWeb 2.0 websites allow users to do more than just retrieve information. They can build on the interactive facilities of "Web 1.0" to provide "Network as platform" computing, allowing users to run software-applications entirely through a browser. Users can own the data on a Web 2.0 site and exercise control over that data. These sites may have an "Architecture of participation" that encourages users to add value to the application as they use it. This stands in contrast to very old traditional websites, the sort which limited visitors to viewing and whose content only the site's owner could modify. Web 2.0 sites often feature a rich, user-friendly interface based on Ajax,openlaszlo, Flex or similar rich media.

the Web 2.0 can be compared with the Web 1.0:

web 1 ............................................................. web 2

doubleclick............................................. google

Adsenseofoto............................................................ Flickr

Akamai ....................................................Bit

Torrent mp3.com ...................................................Napster

British encyclopedia................................ Wikipedia

personal Webs ..........................................blogging

Evite........................................... upcoming.com and EVDB

Seen pages............................................ cost by clickscreen

scraping...................................... services web

publication ...............................................participation

system of management of contents.......... wiki

web.2 - web.2

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past simple & past continuous

2008-08-20T04:18:00.001-07:00

PAST SIMPLE:
Has to distinguish between regular and irregular verbs.
The past simple the regular verbs formed by adding -ed to the infinitive. The negative and interrogative forms are built with the assistant did.
Did not is the contraction did not.
RULES:
- Verbs finished -e only he adds the remaining d -ed.
- Verbs monosílabicos finished short vowel consonant more simple double the consonant before end-ed.
- Verbs finished more consonant (y) changing (y) (i) and add -ed.
Finishes in voice-over (y) follow the general rule.
- Verbs of two or more syllables finished short vowel consonant more simple double the consonant end if the accent falls on the last syllable.

USES:
- Is used to talk about past actions that took place at a particular time that is specified through expressions of time past.
- Narrate a sequence of past events.

PAST CONTINUOUS:
the past Coninueous is formed with the past simple tense of the verb to be more the main verb finish-ing.
It wasn't the abbreviated form of was not and weren't to were not.

USES:
- Is used to describe an activity that was happening at a specific moment in the past.
- Is used to refer a past action that was going on when he was interrupted.
- Is used to refer to two actions that were being developed simultaneously in the past.

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present simple & present continuous

2008-08-20T04:17:00.001-07:00

Present simple
The present is just the same way as the infinitive for all people, except pear third-person singular that is added generally S.

Rules
- In general, verbs add-sa third-person singular.
Verbs-finished-s,-x-sh, ch-added-is the third person singular.
- Verbs finished more consonant (and) change (and) by (i) and add-en.
But verbs finished most vocal (and) follow the general rule.

USE
- To express normal routines and activities
Ex: Carol goes your work by train every day.

- to express facts or truths
Ex: The Nile flows into the mediterranean.

- To express situations permanent or stable
Ex: My parents live in the south of france.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS
This coninuous is formed with the present simple tense of the verb to be more finished in the main verb-ing.

Rules
- Verbs finished more consonant-e, omitena and by-the-ing.
- Verbs monosyllables finished more consonant short vowel, double the consonant and add-ing.
The verbosacabados-in-ie, the change-ie by (and) before-ing.
- Verbs finished more vocal (l) double (l) before-ing.

USE
- Actions that are occurring at a time to speak
Ex: she was watching TV now.

- Actions that are taking place temporarily, not necessarily at the time to talk
Ex: She's studying secundary this year.

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Will & be going to

2008-08-20T04:16:00.000-07:00

WILL
The future is a simple way to more infinitive will for all people.
- Will can be caught as' ll.
- There shall also form for the first person singular and plural.

USE
- To make predictions of the future.
Ex. It'll be cloudy tomorrow morning.

- To make promises.
Ex. I'll write to you every week.

- Offers to help someone.

- To decisions at the time to speak.
Ex. I think I'll have a sandwich now.

BE GOIG TO
It was with this continuous form of the verb to go over the main infinitive of the verb.

USE
- To express intentions.
Ex. I'm going to do more exercise.

- To talk about future plans.
Ex. A famous architect is going to build a new museum.

- To make predictions future, based on obvious facts of this.
Ex. Look at those clouds. It's going to rain.

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present perfect simple & present perfect continuous

2008-08-20T04:15:00.000-07:00

PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE
The present perfect simple forms with the present perfect simple verb to have most of the past participle of the verb principal.
USE
The present perfect simple is used to to discuss actions in the past that have any impact on this: - Actions that occurred in the past without specifying the time they occurred.
Ex. I've met your mother in the supermarket.

- With the adverb just expressed actions just happen.
Ex. We've just come back from london.

- With prepositions for and since.
Ex. We have not eaten rice for two months.
Ex. He has been abroad since 2000.

-With time of expressions that indicate a period of time at the moment to speak not yet been completed.
Ex. You have not done much today.

PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS
The present perfect continuous is formed with the present perfect tense of the verb to be more form-ing the main verb.
USE
- To speak of an activity that began in the past and continuing into the present. Often accompanied by prepositions for or since.
Ex. We've been studyind since 9 o'clock.

- To talk about an action that began in the past and may have recently finished in a time of the present.
Ex. You've been sleeping all morning.

- To speak of past actions just completed, and whose outcome is obvious.
Ex. Have you been swatting flies?

present perfect simple & present perfect continuous - present perfect simple & present perfect continuous

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stephen king

2008-08-20T04:13:00.000-07:00

My favorite writer is stephen king, is an American author, screenwriter, musician, columnist, actor, film producer and director.
His book is fiction mixted with terror. The terror of Stephen king is different unlike any other author, because his terror isn’t simple bloody, also a kind of terror dark and sinistre.
I like Stephen King because they create a kind of emotions very intrigue and dark at the same time.
I discovered a Stephen King last year, when I read the first book was titled Christine.
Stephen was in the 2006 the best writer in the EEUU, and he wins a prize in your country.
I recommend a Stephen king books anyone that likes terror histories, but also recommened anyone that like a point of intrigue and fiction.
Now I'm going to put a sipnosis of a tour book:

CHRISTINE
The dark protagonist of this novel is a car brand Plymouth in 1958 called Christine, a survivor of a time when gasoline was cheap and rock and roll marked the rhythm of the time. Arnie Cunningham is ready to succeed at any price. And he succeeds. But while working in the arduous task of restoration, the car is showing signs of a terrible life of its own. Or is it just imagination? Dennis continues believed well, but people are dying in the dark streets and avenues of Libertyville. And there comes a time when Dennis can no longer deny the terrifying truth: Christine is alive ...

Stephen king. - Stephen king.

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google
wikipedia
imeem

Large Hadron Collider

2008-08-20T04:08:00.000-07:00

The Large Hadron Collider is an experiment cientifc, made by the CERN, tour location is ginebra (suiza).
This experiment must demostrate teories of some cientist, as stephen hopkins teories.
The experiment will be put into operation in stembre, after that scientists think a risk of this experiment,
the risk:
Concerns have been raised regarding the safety of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the grounds that high-energy particle collisions performed in the LHC might produce dangerous phenomena, including micro black holes, strangelets, vacuum bubbles and magnetic monopoles.
its cost is very high, because the experiment requires very advanced materials and high security.
This experiment is very risky, but if the experiment goes well will be the biggest breakthrough of the 21 century.
I want to be put into operation the Large Hadron Collider.

More information in- http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html

Large Hadron Collider - Large Hadron Collider

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imeem
youtube
wikipedia
google

roncesvalles

2008-05-21T11:02:00.000-07:00

a week ago we went to the Pirinnes travel end of cours, what we spent very well was great fun and it was a camping trip to remember, is not true that we went to town, but to be in one place (with the teachers who went) and everything has come together quite so isolated in the class.
We conducted many activities such as raffting or make a piece of "camino de Santiago", raffting I liked a lot more that the "camino de santiago" as the raffting generates excitement and adrenalin downloads down the river, while the camino de Santiago was more boring because it was just walk, but we saw some very beautiful landscapes.
We also visited cities like Jaca, a very beautiful city and with many details of the Middle Ages, and later also visited pamplona, that this is closer to a city and well as a city.
We saw "el monasterio de piedra" which was an exotic place with waterfalls the rivers and vegetation, and also saw some lakes in Catalunya also very exotic.
we saw snow in May which is not everywhere you can see.
And the last day teachers we sought a place to celebrate the party.
And the day of return go to relax Caldea where we went to was the star of the trip.
In short: a journey with many hours of bus but impressionant..

Roncesvalles -

Credits

2008-05-21T10:26:00.000-07:00

Introduction of the film:
this is england it tries about one gang of skin heads, that they are united with one kid (shaun).
Shaun begins to go with the gang, but, when combo (man with nazi ideologies) returns, the gang it separated and the members of gang have many conflictsof gang have many conflicts.

My opinion about film: This film has caused me great interest and has informed me a lot about the different ideologies and fashions that can be carried by different ideologies, I think that thanks to this movie, it suggests to people who think you have Nazi ideologies, and see that not only must be said that one but also feel it is Nazi, but after this movie not many people will again say that it is Nazi, because it shows scenes very hard. I think that people should not follow a fashion that this parallel to an ideology, let alone if you do not know very well that deals with this ideology, because people associate with persons Nazi skin (such as the movie), and I I believe that everyone skin must be Nazis.

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Fallas & Easter

2008-03-30T04:27:00.000-07:00

Fallas

My fallas have been a lot of fun and intense:

Day 16 -> This day i wasn’t go to valencia, because i was punished.

Day 17 -> We go to Valencia, and we hope at the rest arrived, after we go to edu’s home, and we were watching the T.V and we have dinner. After dinner we were go to the “Castle pirotecnic”.
After the Castle pirotecnic, we were go at home and go to sleep.

Day 18 -> Like every day we go to Valencia, and again we hope to that arrived, we go to buy dinner and we went to have diner again to edu’s home, and after we then went to see the "Nit del foc" that is an very especial night in fallas.When the “nit del foc” it finished we went to celebrated a mini-party.

Day 19 -> This day I was very tired, because the previous day I went to sleep at 6 o’clock, aside the four days of fallas are very tired.This day I went to sleep at 10 o’clock I recovered of fallas.

Easter:
My easter have been a very normal holidays.

I went to Valencia, to home of violeta, to the cinema, and more sites, but also I had working very hard, because the 3 evaluation it had started.

My estear also very semed a one month of summer. This easter I have been in my home because my parents have working and fix my floor of Valencia in order to rent it.

And this is are my holidays.

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Imeem

past simple and past continuous

2008-01-24T08:01:00.000-08:00

My christmas

2008-01-10T09:08:00.000-08:00

My Christmas has been quite normal, I was much h past me very well and I was with my friends. Now I will list the days that are holidays and days that I better pass:

23 ->

23 went to the valencia in underground and angela buy me a gift, which her a poster of Kurt

Cobain singer of the group Nirvana.

24 ->

24 by the afternoon I was with juanjo and at night I had a dinner as a family every year and

then at 12 i give the wii.

25 ->

I had lunch on 25 Christmas and all day I was trying the gift.

31 ->

31 I went to the house to celebrate the night andrea old and did a party and we go to bed when it dawned.

1 ->

I had family meal, and then I went to sleep.

6 ->

Day kings gave me gifts and had family meal and I ended up holidays.

And these have been the Christmas of this year.

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My planet

2008-01-03T03:51:00.000-08:00

Global warming is a term commonly used in two ways:

1-It is a phenomenon in the measures of temperature shows that on average an increase in temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans in recent decades.

2-It is a theory that predicts, based on projections based on computer simulations, a future of growth temperatures.
Sometimes we use designations climate change, which refers to any change in climate, or anthropogenic climate change, which implicitly considers the influence of human activity.
Global warming and the greenhouse effect are not synonymous. The greenhouse effect heightened by the pollution can be, according to some theories, the cause of global warming observed.
The temperature of the planet has been rising since the mid-nineteenth century, when it ended the stage known as the Little Ice Age.
Global warming is natural in the century rise 1 degree or two but what is normal for us in a year have risen more than half a degree.
To prevent climate change this protocol "kyoto," This measure is aimed at restricting many things.

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My street

2007-11-25T07:40:00.000-08:00

This is my street. I live in the plantatio in a small town near la cañada.
Streets around me are long and wide but many are in very poor condition or are not numbered well.
The environments that surround me are a restaurant, the main street and a pharmacy.
We have a soccer field near but this neglected and only months to when summer arrives and the paty begin from here.
Also next to my house there is a small forest, but now this fence so that it can retain and do not burn.
The school is close to my house just slow 5 minutes.
in the Plantatio restaurant the two bus stops or going to la cañada subway or paterna. The subway is a problem here because they spend every 1 hour.
The plantatio is a quiet place where they usually do not have much noise but if there are some rob in this area. In my house when I was a child came to rob.
This is my street and my area where I live.

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imeem

MY SCHOOL

2007-11-25T05:36:00.000-08:00

My school is escuela 2.

it isn't a very big school but we have enough place.

It is in la canyada, a village near Valencia.

there are three hundred students aproximately.

They are from three to sixteen years old.

My school is a cooperative.

study many subjets:

1-English.

2-maths.

3-audiovisaules.

4-lenguage.

5-biology.

6-history and geofraphy.

7-fisics and chemistry.

8-valencia lenguage

9-plastic

10-fisical education

11-teachnology

12-guidance

my favourite subjet is biology and maths, and I don't like fisical education.

I like my school because I enjoy very much and my friens are simpacetic, and teachers are very friendly.

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This is the secretary.

This is the bathroom.

This is primary.

This is secondary.

This is the kitchen.

This is the garden of children.

This is the garden.

This is the library.

This is the field of basketball.

This is the football field.

This is the classroom technology.

This is the school on the backside.
This is music.

And this is all my school.

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escuela2

halloween

2007-10-30T01:08:00.000-07:00

Foods:
Candy apple Because the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest, candy apples (also known as toffee, taffy or caramel apples) are a common Halloween treat made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, and sometimes rolling them in nuts.

Meaning of pumpkin:
It is said that witches used the skulls of human casualties and adorned with candles between basins of the eyes and nose. When the pagan Irish arrived in the United States, could not carry out these practices with human skulls, so they used pumpkins

Trick or treating :
It is an activity for children in which they go from house to house dressed, asking sweet with the phrase: "trick or treating?" The trick is a threat to joke to the owners of the house, and treatment it's just that give them sweets.

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1-wikipedia

2-imeem

3-youtube
4-google

BIRMANIA

2007-10-27T13:02:00.000-07:00

The problem in Birmania comes from their own independence.

Shortly after he suffered a coup.

The country is ruled by a military regime since 1962 and are not held parliamentary elections since 1990.

Birmania is in full fight to let them make choices, but the military regime did not let them.

Birmania fight because the regime falls military, and this year has held many demonstrations, which were harshly suppressed by the government.

The dictatorship is not allowed to express their views.

But the rest of the country did nothing and who are forced to obey the government to set up there.

Dictatorship by the country was returned to the poorest because the military was left with all the money, why is a country little changed.

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the shark in tarragona

2007-08-27T03:05:00.000-07:00

the last week of I descry a shark in tarragona, apparently the shark seemed that it was had confused and single they wanted it to take to the aquarium of Barcelona to see that happened to him and to try to cure it.

during that week the shark was the attraction of the tourists and on whom already they live there, since is not very normal to see a grisse shark in the coasts of the Mediterranean.

after many days of attempts of captures, and as the shark seemed weak they tried to take it but without no success.

it makes about four days the submariners put in the water with the luck to be able to catch it but with you record injuries.the day after capturing it the shark it dies by the hooks to hammer in its mouth.

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Maddeline

2007-08-26T03:54:00.000-07:00

she does but of a month the British girl disappeared in Portugal, leaving only her spots of blood in the room.

the police thought at first that the parents were their assassins but they were to worng.

the parents returned to London and let everything there to return to Portugal.

To been already many months and the girl follows without appearing.
the experts assure that with as much missing time and the small thing that are that it is very difficult to find it lives simply or alive, before this possibility the parents continue living in Portugal of the donations that to them the people do and they do not lose the hope of found with life.

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peru

2007-08-26T03:01:00.000-07:00

already for a month an earthquake of force 7,9 in the scale of richter I have been whipping Peru leaving but of thousands wounded, but of five hundred died and but of two thousand affected (by lost of houses, animals, lands…).

the government of Peru requests aid to the other governments, but all aid is enough in a country that has much poverty.

today Peru recovers favorably but the affected zones but will be almost impossible to reconstruct them since to been left everything destroyed and devastated.

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Canarias

2007-08-18T07:18:00.000-07:00

The past month, many destructions began fires of the Canary Islands causing and killing many animals.
it is thought that the fire was promouthful by somebody, but now is too much behind schedule for undoing already done, and the result million burned kilometers.

RESULT:

The habitants become infuriated and the police does not let to them go to save its houses, many died animals, all the burned natural parks, and the Canary Islands to been charred.

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CAMPUS PARTY

2007-08-02T01:13:00.000-07:00

Campus party is recognized like the greater event of electronic entertainment in network of the world. A made annual encounter from 1997, that reunites during seven days to thousands of participants with its computers coming from all Spain and of other nations, with the purpose of sharing restlessness, changing experiences and to make all type of activities related to the computer, the communications and the new technologies.
This event is born, in 1997, prior to the own constitution of Future the E3 Association, promoted by some of its present patronos, in the locality of Mollina, Malaga. From the event has a generalist and formativity character,reunites to the different platforms and groups from the world of computer science and summoning them to create a propitious point of contact for the change of ideas and know.

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podcast

2007-06-07T07:02:00.000-07:00

A podcast is a digital media file, or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. A podcast is a specific type of webcast which, like 'radio', can mean either the content itself or the method by which it is syndicated; the latter is also termed podcasting. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster. The term "podcast" is a portmanteau of the name of Apple's portable music player, the iPod, and broadcast; a "pod" refers to a container of some sort, and "cast" to the idea of broadcasting.

BULLING

2007-06-01T11:20:00.000-07:00

Bullying is the intentional tormenting of others through verbal harassment, physical assault, or other more subtle methods of coercion such as manipulation. There is currently no legal definition of bullying.
The effects of bullying can be serious and even fatal. About 85% of bullying victims suffer long term psychological damage and stress related disease later in their lives.
There have been many examples of people dying as a result of bullying. Victims of bullying either commit suicide or are killed by their bullies. There are also cases of death occurring as an indirect result of bullying, such as bullies or other people killed by victims of bullying.

CIBER-BULLING
Cyberbullying occurs in electronic space. According to Canadian educator Bill Belsey, it:
"involves the use of information and communication technologies such as e-mail, cell phone and pager text messages, instant messaging, defamatory personal Web sites, blogs, online games and defamatory online personal polling Web sites, to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others".Bullies will even create blogs to intimidate victims worldwide.

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wikipedia

youtube

SAHARA

2007-06-01T11:03:00.000-07:00

The Sahara At over 9,000,000 square kilometres, it is almost as large as the United States, and is larger than the 48 contiguous states.
The climate of the Sahara has undergone enormous variation between wet and dry over the last few hundred thousand years. During the last ice age, the Sahara was bigger than it is today, extending south beyond its current boundaries.
the collapsing ice sheets to the north.
The Sahara has one of the harshest climates in the world. It has many strong winds that blow from the north-east. Sometimes on the border zones of the north and south, the desert will receive about 25 cm of rain a year. The rainfall happens very rarely, but when it does it is usually torrential when it occurs after long dry periods, which can last for years. Daytime temperatures can be 58 °C.
but freezing temperatures aren't uncommon at night, reaching as low as −6 °C

CREDITS->
wikipedia

youtube

saint valentine

2007-05-31T09:59:00.000-07:00

Saint Valentine refers to one of several martyred saints of ancient Rome. The feast of Saint Valentine was formerly celebrated on february 14 by the Roman Catholic Church until a revised calendar was issued in 1969, pursuant to the Second Vatican Council.His feast day is July 30 in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
His birth date and birthplace are unknown. Valentine's name does not occur in the earliest list of Roman martyrs, which was compiled by the Chronographer of 354.
The feast of St. Valentine was first decreed in 496 by Pope Gelasius I, who included Valentine among those (" whose names are justly reverenced among men, but whose acts are known only to God.") As Gelasius implied, nothing is known about the lives of any of these martyrs.

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second life*

2007-05-31T09:51:00.000-07:00

Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 6,843,184 people from around the globe.
Residents are the users of Second Life, and their appearance is their avatar.
The basic avatar is human in appearance, but avatars may be of either sex, have a wide range of physical attributes, and may be clothed or otherwise customized to produce a wide variety of humanoid and other forms.

CREDITS->
second life
wikipedia
youtube

mall rats

2007-05-31T09:01:00.000-07:00

i think it's a fantastic film because it shows an informal life that you can't see every day in tv.

the director for being the most important has a little paper in the film.

the film is abaut the live of frikies in a grand store with many adventures.
it's a very funny film and enterteining and I recomend it to everybody.

opinion of director->

Kevin: I think Mallrats is very funny. I'm on your side. It's a movie that's very dear to my heart, but it went right in the shitter. When you do a movie like Clerks, then a movie like Mallrats that goes right in the shitcan, everyone says, "Ha ha, wiseass." So rather than subject yourself to that, you steal their thunder by saying it first.
There's this infamous moment where I was on stage giving an award away with Laura Dern, and I opened up by saying, "I want to take this time to apologize for Mallrats. I don't know what I was thinking." It was said in a very tongue-in-cheek fashion; it was a joke. But some people thought it was serious. Roger Ebert, in his review of Chasing Amy, said, "He started out with a great movie called Clerks, then followed up with a movie that was so bad that he apologized for it."

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google
youtube

spain

2007-04-15T07:56:00.000-07:00

Different cultures have settled in the area of modern Spain, such as the Celts, Iberians, Romans, Visigoths, and Moors. For just over five centuries, during the Middle Ages, large areas were under the control of Islamic rulers, a fragment of which survived as late as 1492, when the Christian kingdoms of Castile and Aragón completed the 770 years long process of driving the Moors out.
The historical peoples of the peninsula were the Iberians and the Celts, the former inhabiting the southwest part of the peninsula and along the Mediterranean side through to the northeast, the latter inhabiting the north and northwest part of the peninsula. In the inner part of the peninsula, where both groups were in contact, a mixed, distinctive, culture was present, known as.

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google

interchange with carcasson

2007-03-25T03:23:00.000-07:00

the past Thursdays 8 of March came to Spain our friends from carcasson to spend a great week with us.

the truth is that this interchange is a fantastic experience since few schools you have the oportinidad to make it.

the week transcurried of this form:

Friday:

we went to the school and later we went to see the exhibition of (ninot). later we went 2 hours to the oceanographic one and ate in the city of the arts and sciences, and in the evening we went by in (la cañada)

Monday:

we went to the albufera that we had planned a trip in boat on the albufera but it could not be since the time I do not let it do.

Tuesday:

we remained to all the day in the school doing factories of (la semana de)

Wednesday:

we went to see the (mascleta) and we ate by valence, in the evening we made a great celebration of goodbye.

Thursday:

Thursday to 15:00 began their trip towards carcasson.

fallas

2007-03-04T02:44:00.000-08:00

Formerly, much time would also be spent at the Casal Faller preparing the ninots for puppets or dolls¡l. During the week leading up to 19 March, each group takes its ninot out for a grand parade, and then mounts it, each on its own elaborate filled cardboard and artistic monument in a street of the given neighborhood. This whole assembly is a falla.
The ninots and their falles are developed according to an agreed upon theme that was, and continues to be a satirical jab at anything or anyone unlucky enough to draw the attention of the critical eyes of the fallers (the celebrants themselves). In modern times, the whole two week long festival has spawned a huge local industry, to the point that an entire suburban area has been designated the City of Falles. Here, crews of artists and artisans, sculptors, painters, and many others all spend months producing elaborate constructions, richly absurd paper and wax, wood and styrofoam tableaux towering up to five stories, composed of fanciful figures in outrageous poses arranged in gravity-defying architecture, each produced at the direction of the many individual neighbourhood Casals faller who vie with each to attract the best artists.

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SECOND LIFE*

2007-02-21T09:50:00.000-08:00

DrAcUl*

2007-02-21T09:17:00.001-08:00

Between 1879 and 1898 Stoker are business manager for the world-famous Lyceum Theatre in London, where he supplemented his income by writing a large number of sensational novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula published on may 1897. Parts of it are set around the town of Whitby, where he was living at the time. While Dracula is famous today (due in large part to its 20th century life on film), it was not an important or famous work for Victorian readers, being just another potboiler adventure among many. Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, authors such as H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H.G. Wells wrote many tales in which fantastic creatures threatened the British Empire. Invasion literature was at a peak, and Stoker's formula of an invasion of England by continental European influences was by 1897 very familiar to readers of fantastic adventure stories.

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