Governor

Walter Basilio Barrionuevo (born in 1954) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, current governor of Jujuy Province.

Born in Frías, Santiago del Estero Province, Barrionuevo was a provincial deputy from 1995 until he was elected vice-governor of Jujuy as running mate to Eduardo Fellner in 2003.[1]

Barrionuevo was elected Governor in October 2007 with 35.8% of the vote, on the Front for Victory ticket of President Néstor Kirchner.[1]

The dress

Kate Middleton's wedding dress by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-32917_162-20058526-10391716.html

radio mantra

MANTRA FM, sintoniza tu mundo interior es una propuesta radial en donde se desarrollan todas las temáticas de Alternativas y Holísticas en dirección hacia colaborar con el cambio en el NIVEL DE CONCIENCIA. Participan los mejores profesionales argentinos y extranjeros, tanto en sus propios programas como nuestro programa insignia,
El Portal, que lleva más de ocho años de presencia ininterrumpida y con más de 2000 horas al aire. Compartimos también la extraordinaria experiencia de conciertos en vivo, para lo cual invitamos a artistas del género a participar.

Estamos en el dial 91.9 FM, on line a través de este link ó bien puedes ver lo que pasa dentro del estudio y participar con tu pregunta a través del chat que está disponible.
Para comunicarse con los programas que salen al aire lo puedes hacer a través de las siguientes vías:

Pachamamas day

AUGUST FIRST - PACHAMAMA DAY IN SALTA
In Quechua, Pacha Mama means Mother Earth. Pacha: universe, time, place. Mama: mother, a female god who produces, conceives all things. They say she lives in the very bowels of the earth.

On this day people bury a clay pot near their homes, with cooked food, coca leaves, alcohol, wine, cigars and chicha (fermented sugar cane) to feed Pachamama; and they wear black and white llama wool string around ankles, wrists and neck to avoid punishment from Pachamama.

All garbage is picked up from the streets, homes are cleaned out and scented with various spices favorite to Mother Earth. This is a day to pay our respects to Her, creator of all things, because in the coming month, she may release the firewind (viento Zonda) over the entire argentine northwest.
Hopefully we´ve done well, and Pachamama will take it easy on us.

S. S. de Jujuy - El Poder Ejecutivo Provincial en virtud de conmemorarse este próximo 7 de octubre el Día de la Virgen de Río Blanco y Paypaya, Patrona de Jujuy, recordó que de acuerdo a la Ley Nº 4059 y su modificatoria Nº 5005 se declara como día no laborable a la mencionada fecha.

Polo gold cup circuit

Rome Summer Polo Audi Gold Cup at the top of the Roman polo

After the success of both the Cortina Winter Polo on snow, and the novelty of the Forte dei Marmi Beach Polo, Rome Polo Club is the chosen venue for the conclusion of the 2011 Audi Polo Gold Cup Circuit. The Rome Summer Polo Audi Gold Cup (27 June - 2 July) is combined with the Duca d’Aosta Cup which is the pride of the entire calendar of all the Roman tournaments. Starting on Monday and ending on Saturday with the finals, two matches per day, one at dusk and one under the spotlight, and for all of them the show is guaranteed. Six polo teams are engaged, with the presence of several Argentinean players: Anacri (cap. Piero Dillier), Audi (cap. Luca D’Orazio), Roma Polo Club (cap. Stefano Ottaviani), Audemars Piguet (Cap. Stefania Annunziata), La Nuova Poncia (cap. Giacomo Galantino), U.S.Polo Ass. (cap. Ginevra D’Orazio). During the matches, in Roma Polo Club, guests can enjoy their time with happy hour together with a sushi corner. Furthermore, the polo restaurant will have live music for members and guests in the English-style club house that overlooks the polo pitch.

Democracy

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
Bertrand Russell

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Franklin D. Roosevelt


Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw



More quotes: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/democracy_2.htm

Women-Human Rights-մարդու իրավունքներ

Women's rights in 2011................


Millions of women throughout the world live in conditions of abject deprivation of, and attacks against, their fundamental human rights for no other reason than that they are women.

Combatants and their sympathizers in conflicts, such as those in Sierra Leone, Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, and Rwanda, have raped women as a weapon of war with near complete impunity. Men in Pakistan, South Africa, Peru, Russia, and Uzbekistan beat women in the home at astounding rates, while these governments alternatively refuse to intervene to protect women and punish their batterers or do so haphazardly and in ways that make women feel culpable for the violence. As a direct result of inequalities found in their countries of origin, women from Ukraine, Moldova, Nigeria, the Dominican Republic, Burma, and Thailand are bought and sold, trafficked to work in forced prostitution, with insufficient government attention to protect their rights and punish the traffickers. In Guatemala, South Africa, and Mexico, women's ability to enter and remain in the work force is obstructed by private employers who use women's reproductive status to exclude them from work and by discriminatory employment laws or discriminatory enforcement of the law. In the U.S., students discriminate against and attack girls in school who are lesbian, bi-sexual, or transgendered, or do not conform to male standards of female behavior. Women in Morocco, Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia face government-sponsored discrimination that renders them unequal before the law - including discriminatory family codes that take away women's legal authority and place it in the hands of male family members - and restricts women's participation in public life.
Abuses against women are relentless, systematic, and widely tolerated, if not explicitly condoned. Violence and discrimination against women are global social epidemics, notwithstanding the very real progress of the international women's human rights movement in identifying, raising awareness about, and challenging impunity for women's human rights violations.
We live in a world in which women do not have basic control over what happens to their bodies. Millions of women and girls are forced to marry and have sex with men they do not desire. Women are unable to depend on the government to protect them from physical violence in the home, with sometimes fatal consequences, including increased risk of HIV/AIDS infection. Women in state custody face sexual assault by their jailers. Women are punished for having sex outside of marriage or with a person of their choosing (rather than of their family's choosing). Husbands and other male family members obstruct or dictate women's access to reproductive health care. Doctors and government officials disproportionately target women from disadvantaged or marginalized communities for coercive family planning policies.
Our duty as activists is to expose and denounce as human rights violations those practices and policies that silence and subordinate women. We reject specific legal, cultural, or religious practices by which women are systematically discriminated against, excluded from political participation and public life, segregated in their daily lives, raped in armed conflict, beaten in their homes, denied equal divorce or inheritance rights, killed for having sex, forced to marry, assaulted for not conforming to gender norms, and sold into forced labor. Arguments that sustain and excuse these human rights abuses - those of cultural norms, "appropriate" rights for women, or western imperialism - barely disguise their true meaning: that women's lives matter less than men's. Cultural relativism, which argues that there are no universal human rights and that rights are culture-specific and culturally determined, is still a formidable and corrosive challenge to women's rights to equality and dignity in all facets of their lives.
The Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch fights against the dehumanization and marginalization of women. We promote women's equal rights and human dignity. The realization of women's rights is a global struggle based on universal human rights and the rule of law. It requires all of us to unite in solidarity to end traditions, practices, and laws that harm women. It is a fight for freedom to be fully and completely human and equal without apology or permission. Ultimately, the struggle for women's human rights must be about making women's lives matter everywhere all the time. In practice, this means taking action to stop discrimination and violence against women.

http://www.hrw.org/en/category/topic/women

Lord Beveridge

William Beveridge (1879 - 1963)

Beveridge was a British economist and social reformer, closely associated with the development of the welfare state.
William Beveridge was born on 5 March 1879 in Bengal, India, where his father was a judge in the Indian Civil Service. He trained a lawyer but came to prominence during the Liberal government of 1906 - 1914 when he was asked to advise David Lloyd George on old age pensions and national insurance. During World War One, Beveridge was involved in mobilising and controlling manpower. In 1919, he became director of the London School of Economics where he remained until 1937.
When, in 1941, the government commissioned a report into the ways that Britain should be rebuilt after World War Two, Beveridge was an obvious choice to take charge. He published his report in 1942 and recommended that the government should find ways of fighting the five 'Giant Evils' of 'Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness'.
In 1945, the Labour Party defeated Winston Churchill's Conservative Party in the general election. The new prime minister, Clement Attlee, announced he would introduce the welfare state outlined in the 1942 Beveridge Report. This included the establishment of a National Health Service in 1948 with free medical treatment for all. A national system of benefits was also introduced to provide 'social security' so that the population would be protected from the 'cradle to the grave'. The new system was partly built on the national insurance scheme set up by Lloyd George in 1911. People in work still had to make contributions each week, as did employers, but the benefits provided were now much greater.
In 1946, Beveridge was made a peer and became leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords. He died on 16 March 1963.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/beveridge_william.shtml

My life is in your hands.............

Men make jokes about us but without us they cant live .

There are a lot of songs, poems,books etc to give as examples but I chose a song by John Lennon . It summarizes what men feel for women

Woman I can hardly express,
My mixed emotion at my thoughtlessness,
After all I'm forever in your debt,
And woman I will try express,
My inner feelings and thankfullness,
For showing me the meaning of succsess,
oooh well, well,
oooh well, well,

Woman I know you understand
The little child inside the man,
Please remember my life is in your hands,
And woman hold me close to your heart,
However, distant don't keep us apart,
After all it is written in the stars,
oooh well, well,
oooh well, well,

Woman please let me explain,
I never mean(t) to cause you sorrow or pain,
So let me tell you again and again and again,
I love you (yeah, yeah) now and forever,
I love you (yeah, yeah) now and forever,
I love you (yeah, yeah) now and forever,
I love you (yeah, yeah)...

If you want to practise R.Speech............

Here its a good page with exercises on line


http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/reported.htm

Gossip:.......Only for the girls of the group!!!!!!!!!!

After two years, George Clooney and his model girlfriend, Elisabetta Canalis, say good-bye, with Clooney asking for privacy around this personal matter...........

we'll wait for him...............

Time and place references

Time and place references often have to change:

*now--------- then
*today -----------that day
*here------------ there
*this -------------that
*this week -------that week
*tomorrow---------the following day ,the next day ,the day after
*next week--------the following week ,the next week ,the week after
*yesterday-------- the previous day
*the day before ----last week ,the previous week ,the week before
*ago------------- previously,before ,
*2 weeks ago --------------2 weeks previously ,2 weeks before
*tonight ---------that night
*last Saturday ------------the previous Saturday ,the Saturday before
*next Saturday--------------- the following Saturday,the next Saturday,the Saturday after, that Saturday

Examples:

I went to the theatre last night.
He said he had gone to the theatre the night before.

I'm having a party next weekend.
He said he was having a party the next weekend.

I'm staying here until next week.
He said he was staying there until the following week.

I came over from London 3 years ago.
He said he had come over from London 3 years before.



Personal pronouns

You also need to be careful with personal pronouns. They need to be changed according to the situation. You need to know the context. For example, there is possible confusion when you try to change reported speech to direct speech:

She said she'd been waiting for hours.
(Is she one person or two different people?)

I told them they would have to ask permission.
(Are we talking about two groups of people or only one?)



http://valenciaenglish.netfirms.com/reported.htm

Reported Speech

Definition

Reported speech is often also called indirect speech. When we use reported speech, we are usually talking about the past (because obviously the person who spoke originally spoke in the past). The verbs therefore usually have to be in the past too. For example:

"I'm going to the cinema".
He said he was going to the cinema.

Basic tense chart

The tenses generally move backwards in this way (the tense on the left changes to the tense on the right):

*present simple
I'm a teacher. past simple
He said he was a teacher
*present continuous
I'm having lunch with my parents. past continuous.
He said he was having lunch with his parents.
*present perfect simple
I've been to France three times. past perfect simple
He said he had been to France three times.
*present perfect continuous
I've been working very hard. past perfect continuous
He said he had been working very hard.
*past simple
I bought a new car. past perfect
He said he had bought a new car.
*past continuous
It was raining earlier. past perfect continuous
He said it had been raining earlier.
*past perfect
The play had started when I arrived. past perfect
NO CHANGE POSSIBLE
*past perfect continuous
I'd already been living in London for five years. past perfect continuous
NO CHANGE POSSIBLE



Other verb forms

Other verb forms also sometimes change:

*will
I'll come and see you soon. would
He said he would come and see me soon.
*can
I can swim under water for two minutes.
*could
He said he could swim under water for two minutes.
*must
All tickets must be bought in advance. had to
He said that all tickets had to be bought in advance.
*shall
What shall we do about it? should
He asked what we should do about it.
*may
May I smoke? might
He asked if he might smoke.


Things are slightly more complicated with imperatives.

*positive imperative
Shut up! tell + infinitive
He told me to shut up.
*negative imperative
Don't do that again! tell + not + infinitive
He told me not to do it again.
*imperatives as requests
Please give me some money. ask + infinitive
He asked me to give him some money.



When verbs don't follow the rules

The verb tenses do not always follow the rules shown above. For example, if the reporting verb is in the present tense, there is no change in the reported sentence. Also, a sentence in direct speech in a present or future tense can remain the same if what is said is still true or relevant. For example:

You've invited someone for dinner at your house, and the phone rings. It's them! They say:
I'm sorry, but I think I'm going to be a bit late. There's a lot of traffic.

After you finish speaking on the phone, you say to someone else:
That was Juan. He said he thinks he's going to be late because there's a lot of traffic.

Another example:

A friend says to you:
María's ill. She's got chickenpox!

You say to someone else:
Laura said that María's ill. She's got chickenpox.

However, the following day you see María at the beach. You're surprised and say to her:
Laura said that you were ill. She said you had chickenpox.

This has to change to the past because it isn't true. María obviously isn't ill.

Direct statements in a past tense do not always change either, because a change might alter the meaning or just make it sound confusing. For example:

A friend is telling you about the horrible weather:
It started raining heavily when I left work.

This is where things get confusing:

He said it had started raining heavily when he had left work (it sounds horrible and the sentence is almost nothing but verbs).

He said it had started raining heavily when he left work (is wrong because it means it was already raining when he left work)

He said it started raining heavily when he left work (is the best version because it is accurate, short, and there is no confusion because of the time context)

Generally speaking, the past simple and continuous don't always need to be changed if:

there is a time context which makes everything clear,

and/or

there is another action already using the past perfect, which might alter the meaning or make things confusing.


http://valenciaenglish.netfirms.com/reported.htm

Hurricane

The big teams always return...............

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. With Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt and Republican nominee William Howard Taft dividing the Republican Party vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. Like his arch-rival Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Wilson held a Ph.D. degree—the only U.S. President to earn one.
In his first term as President, Wilson persuaded a Democratic Congress to pass major progressive reforms including the Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Farm Loan Act and an income tax. Wilson brought many white Southerners into his administration, and tolerated their expansion of segregation in many federal agencies.[1]
Narrowly re-elected in 1916, he had full control of American entry into World War I, and his second term centered on World War I and the subsequent peace treaty negotiations in Paris. He based his re-election campaign around the slogan, "He kept us out of war", but U.S. neutrality was challenged in early 1917 when the German government began unrestricted submarine warfare despite repeated strong warnings. In April 1917, Wilson asked Congress to declare war.
During the war, Wilson focused on diplomacy and financial considerations, leaving the waging of the war itself primarily in the hands of the Army. On the home front in 1917, he began the United States' first draft since the American Civil War, raised billions of dollars in war funding through Liberty Bonds, set up the War Industries Board, promoted labor union cooperation, supervised agriculture and food production through the Lever Act, took over control of the railroads, and suppressed anti-war movements. While he did not encourage the wave of anti-German sentiment sweeping the country in 1917-18, he did nothing to stop it.
In the late stages of the war, Wilson took personal control of negotiations with Germany, including the armistice. In 1918, he issued his Fourteen Points, his view of a post-war world that could avoid another terrible conflict. In 1919, he went to Paris to create the League of Nations and shape the Treaty of Versailles, with special attention on creating new nations out of defunct empires. In 1919, during the bitter fight with the Republican-controlled Senate over the U.S. joining the League of Nations, Wilson collapsed with a debilitating stroke. He refused to compromise, effectively destroying any chance for ratification. The League of Nations was established anyway, but the United States never joined.
A Presbyterian of deep religious faith, Wilson appealed to a gospel of service and infused a profound sense of moralism into his idealistic internationalism, now referred to as "Wilsonian". Wilsonianism calls for the United States to enter the world arena to fight for democracy, and has been a contentious position in American foreign policy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson

Who was Barbara Ward?

Barbara Mary Ward (23 May 1914 – 31 May 1981), in later life Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, was a British economist and writer interested in the problems of developing countries. She urged Western governments to share their prosperity with the rest of the world and in the 1960s turned her attention to environmental questions as well. She was an early advocate of sustainable development before this term became familiar and was well-known as a journalist, lecturer and broadcaster. Ward was adviser to policy-makers in the UK, US and elsewhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Ward

Your Dog

Your Dog Is Watching You
By TARA PARKER-POPE
New York Times


He knows you’ve got your eye on him.You may be teaching your dog new tricks, without even trying.

Dogs are constantly learning from the reaction of human owners, picking up facial cues and anticipating their owner’s behavior, new research suggests. The findings, published online in the journal Learning and Behavior, show that dogs essentially are always in training, and help explain how many owners unknowingly teach and reward their dog’s bad behavior.

Research conducted at the University of Florida focused on the role of eye contact and facial cues in influencing canine behavior. Earlier studies have suggested that dogs seem to know when they are being watched and even wait to perform forbidden behavior like digging in the garden when they know their owners aren’t looking.
In this study, researchers studied how human cues triggered begging behavior among 35 pet dogs, 18 shelter dogs and 8 wolves raised in captivity. First the animals were taught that the human strangers helping with the experiment were reliable sources of tasty treats. The testers stood close together and called to the animal, and both offered rewards of Spam cubes or Beggin’ Strips treats.

After four rewards, the experiment began. Two testers stood against a fence or wall, about 20 feet apart and with food in their pockets. The dog was held about 20 feet away, equidistant from both testers. In one condition, one tester faced the dog while the other turned her back. In another, a tester held a book near her face, while the other tester held the book in front of her face, as if she were reading. In a third condition, one tester held a bucket near the shoulder, while the other put the bucket over her head, blocking her eyes.

Then, both testers called out to the dogs.

If you want to read more.................http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/your-dog-is-watching-you/?src=me&ref=general

Happy Father,Padre,Vater,Pere day !!!!!!!!!!!

The word "father" can be traced back to the Latin word 'pater'.
There was a process called "the great consonant shift" which meant that related languages began to change and letters such as
"p" began to be pronounced as "f" or "v",
"t" began to be pronounced as "d"

This explains why the Latin word "pater" translates so similarly into various European languages as



•vater - German
•father - English
•padre - Italian & Spanish
•athar - Irish (the initial consonant has disappeared altogether)
•pere - French (the middle consonant has disappeared)



Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Origin_of_the_word_father

Rain Songs

Do you know that there are more than 700 songs about the rain in english? Luckily the sun always shine after the rain!!!!!!!!!
Heres a song about the rainbow? Guess! Its from a film

Somewhere over the rainbow

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high,
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue,
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.

Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far
Behind me.
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me.

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly.
Birds fly over the rainbow.
Why then, oh why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can``t I?

Some songs with conditional sentences

To sing at home...................

-You can get it if you really want -Jimmy Cliff
-If I were a boy –Beyonce
-I don’t want to talk about it – Rod Steward
-With A Little Help From My Friends - The Beatles

Nice page

Heres the link to Charlie Lopez tv english classes. Hes also in facebook.


http://www.charlielopez.com.ar/

More about David Lodge

Heres the link to an interview to David Lodge.Its very interesting.

Title of the article: David Lodge, A novelist's lament for the golden age of university.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/david-lodge-a-novelists-lament-for-the-golden-age-of-universities-2254768.html

A bit of Music, English and Motivation ♪♪

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LCwI5iErE


Hi everyone!, I'll miss class this week, but i'm letting you this great video to start this cold monday with some music, motivation and practising our listening skills (check this other link to put english subtitles and see what he's talking about too).

It's a bit long, but awesome!!.

So take a moment to watch it, let's be one-buttock people! (watch it and you'll figure out what that means).

Have a great week!.

It was sprouts..........

WORLD NEWS -E COLI OUTBREAK: IT WAS SPROUTS AFTER ALL

Express.co.uk
Friday 10th june2011
Its Official: E Coli outbreak was due to sprouts
Friday June 10,2011
By Emily Fox for express.co.uk
VEGETABLE Sprouts have been confirmed as the cause of the E Coli outbreak which has gripped much of Europe and killed 29 people, investigators announced.

The outbreak which has killed 29 and sickened nearly 3,000 people was a result of contaminated sprouts, according to the head of the Germany's national disease control centre.

Robert Koch Institute president Reinhard Burger said even though no tests of the sprouts from a farm in Lower Saxony had come back positive for the E. coli strain behind the outbreak, the investigation of the pattern of the outbreak had produced enough evidence to draw the conclusion.

"In this way it was possible to narrow down epidemiologically the cause of the outbreak of the illness to the consumption of sprouts," Burger said at a joint press conference with heads of Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk Assessment and Federal Office for Consumer Protection.

Andreas Hensel, head of the Risk Assessment agency, said that authorities were lifting the warning against eating cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce.

Burger said it is possible that all tainted sprouts have now either being consumed or thrown away, but still warned that the crisis is not yet over.

"There will be new cases coming up,"he said.

Germany has been the epicenter of the outbreak, with 2,808 sickened in Germany, 722 of whom are suffering from a serious complication that can cause kidney failure. In recent days the numbers of people being reported ill have been dropping, but it was not clear whether the epidemic was waning, or people were just successfully shunning vegetables.

The World Health Organization says 97 others have fallen sick in 12 other European countries, as well as three in the United States.

http://www.express.com

Read more: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/251919/E-Coli-outbreak-It-was-sprouts-after-allE-Coli-outbreak-It-was-sprouts-after-all#ixzz1Ou8UthGw

Wales Audit Office

Wales Audit Office

The Wales Audit office is the public service watchdog for Wales.
Its mission is to promote improvement, so that people in Wales benefit from accountable, well-managed public services that offer the best possible value for money.
The Auditor General is independent of government and leads the Wales Audit Office.
Around 280 Wales Audit Office staff support the Auditor General, working in offices across Wales.
Its staff comprise financial auditors (who examine the accounts of public bodies), performance auditors (who examine how public services are delivered) and corporate staff (in services such as HR, IT and communications).

Wales Audit Office Publications

The Wales Audit Office produces a wide range of reports at national and local level. These reports are free to download but must be referred to and used in their proper context.
For printed copies or assistance with accessing any of our reports contact the Communications Team via e-mail info@wao.gov.uk.
See below for our most recent publications:
Use of resources in special schools
Weaknesses in grant scheme could put investment in woodland at risk
17/08/2010
Capital Investment in Schools
14/07/2010
Buildings Management National Briefing
03/06/2010
National Fraud Initiative 2008-09: Ensuring the proper use of public funds
20/05/2010
The management of public funding by Cymad Cyf
18/05/2010
Code of Audit Practice
01/04/2010
Plas Madoc Communities First
17/03/2010
A Picture of Public Services
16/03/2010
Lean and Systems Thinking in the Public Sector in Wales
16/03/2010

For more information: http://www.wao.gov.uk/reportsandpublications.asp

Penny Lane-For those who dont like to sing.........

The Beatles

Penny Lane

In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
Of ev'ry head he's had the pleasure to know.
And all the people that come and go
Stop and say hello.
On the corner is a banker with a motorcar,
The little children laugh at him behind his back.
And the banker never wears a mac
In the pouring rain, very strange.
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes,
There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit, and meanwhile back
In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass
And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen.
He likes to keep his fire engine clean,
It's a clean machine.
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes,
A four of fish and finger pies
In summer, meanwhile back
Behind the shelter in the middle of the roundabout
The pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray.
And though she feels as if she's in a play
She is anyway.
In Penny Lane, the barber shaves another customer,
We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim
And then the fireman rushes in
From the pouring rain, very strange.
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes,
There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit, and meanwhile back
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes,
There beneath the blue suburban skies...
Penny Lane!

Text from Skills

If you want to read the same text about Locke that its in the book skills , you can find it in this page.You will see that in a skill theres a typing mistake in the first paragraph.
Its "ruler" instead of "rules"


http://www.uefap.com/reading/exercise/ess1/aaron.htm

John Locke

John Locke (1632-1704)
The British philosopher John Locke was especially known for his liberal, anti-authoritarian theory of the state, his empirical theory of knowledge, his advocacy of religious toleration, and his theory of personal identity.
In his own time, he was famous for arguing that the divine right of kings is supported neither by scripture nor by the use of reason. In developing his theory of our duty to obey the state, he attacked the idea that might makes right: Starting from an initial state of nature with no government, police or private property, we humans could discover by careful reasoning that there are natural laws which suggest that we have natural rights to our own persons and to our own labor. Eventually we could discover that we should create a social contract with others, and out of this contract emerges our political obligations and the institution of private property. This is how reasoning places limits on the proper use of power by government authorities.
Regarding epistemology, Locke disagreed with Descartes‘ rationalist theory that knowledge is any idea that seems clear and distinct to us. Instead, Locke claimed that knowledge is direct awareness of facts concerning the agreement or disagreement among our ideas. By “ideas,” he meant mental objects, and by assuming that some of these mental objects represent non-mental objects he inferred that this is why we can have knowledge of a world external to our minds. Although we can know little for certain and must rely on probabilities, he believed it is our God-given obligation to obtain knowledge and not always to acquire our beliefs by accepting the word of authorities or common superstition. Ideally our beliefs should be held firmly or tentatively depending on whether the evidence is strong or weak. He praised the scientific reasoning of Boyle and Newton as exemplifying this careful formation of beliefs. He said that at birth our mind has no innate ideas; it is blank, a tabula rasa. As our mind gains simple ideas from sensation, it forms complex ideas from these simple ideas by processes of combination, division, generalization and abstraction. Radical for his time, Locke asserted that in order to help children not develop bad habits of thinking, they should be trained to base their beliefs on sound evidence, to learn how to collect this evidence, and to believe less strongly when the evidence is weaker.
We all can have knowledge of God‘s existence by attending to the quality of the evidence available to us, primarily the evidence from miracles. Our moral obligations, says Locke, are divine commands. We can learn about those obligations both by God’s revealing them to us and by our natural capacities to discover natural laws. He hoped to find a deductive system of ethics in analogy to our deductive system of truths of geometry.
Regarding personal identity, Locke provided an original argument that our being the same person from one time to another consists neither in our having the same soul nor the same body, but rather the same consciousness.

if you want to read more about him.........

http://www.iep.utm.edu/locke/

Internet encyclopedia of Philosophy

CNN Video - How much food does the world waste

Here we have the link to the video we have watched in class:


http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/05/12/incocencio.hk.world.food.waste.cnn?iref=videosearch

Endangered Species

There are several endangered species .You can read about them in this link

http://library.thinkquest.org/11353/e-animals.htm

London Bridge..............

The Need for a New Bridge : London Bridge was originally the only crossing for the Thames. As London grew, so more bridges were added, although these were all built to the west of London Bridge, since the area east of London Bridge had become a busy port. In the 19th century, the East End of London became so densely populated that public need mounted for a new bridge to the east of London Bridge, as journeys for pedestrians and vehicles were being delayed by hours. Finally in 1876, the City of London Corporation, responsible for that part of the Thames, decided the problem could be delayed no longer. The view today from the high level Walkways has changed dramatically, although there are still signs of the area's amazing history. With the aid of photographs and interactive kiosks, visitors to Tower Bridge Exhibition can gain a greater understanding of how life would have been when the idea of a new bridge was originally conceived. How a Design was Chosen A huge challenge faced the City of London Corporation - how to build a bridge downstream from London Bridge without disrupting river traffic activities. To generate ideas, the "Special Bridge or Subway Committee" was formed in 1876, and opened the design for the new crossing to public competition. Over 50 designs were submitted for consideration, some of which are on display at Tower Bridge Exhibition. It wasn't until October 1884 however, that Horace Jones, the City Architect, in collaboration with John Wolfe Barry, offered the chosen design for Tower Bridge as a solution. The Building of the Bridge It took 8 years, 5 major contractors and the relentless labour of 432 construction workers to build Tower Bridge. Two massive piers were sunk into the river bed to support the construction and over 11,000 tons of steel provided the framework for the Towers and Walkways. This framework was clad in Cornish granite and Portland stone to protect the underlying steelwork and to give the Bridge a more pleasing appearance. To learn more about the building of Tower Bridge, the people involved in its construction and why it was needed, visit The Tower Bridge Exhibition where video screenings explain the entire project, including the difficulties faced. How it Works - Then and Now When it was built, Tower Bridge was the largest and most sophisticated bascule bridge ever completed ("bascule" comes from the French for "see-saw"). These bascules were operated by hydraulics, using steam to power the enormous pumping engines. The energy created was stored in six massive accumulators, as soon as power was required to lift the Bridge, it was always readily available. The accumulators fed the driving engines, which drove the bascules up and down. Despite the complexity of the system, the bascules only took about a minute to raise to their maximum angle of 86 degrees. Today, the bascules are still operated by hydraulic power, but since 1976 they have been driven by oil and electricity rather than steam. The original pumping engines, accumulators and boilers are now exhibits within the Tower Bridge Exhibition. Tower Bridge Exhibition - A History In 1910 the high level Walkways were closed to the public due to lack of use. People arriving on the bridge preferred to wait at street level for it to close rather then heading up the stairs carrying their heavy loads. In 1982, as part of the new Tower Bridge Exhibition, visitors to the bridge could once again enter the walkways, now fully covered, and experience the amazing panoramic views. Although Tower Bridge is now powered by oil and electricity, the original steam engines maintained by a dedicated team of technical officers remain in their original location for all to see. This area is known as the Victorian Engine Rooms, the second section of Tower Bridge Exhibition. Over the past 28 years, the exhibition has been developed to keep pace with modern day needs without losing its Victorian essence. Through interactive kiosks and video walls along with knowledgeable Guides, visitors can learn about key events in the Bridge's history, ranging from Royal visits to dare devil stunts. Interesting Facts Tower Bridge has a fascinating history, which is explored in full in The Tower Bridge Exhibition. Here are a few interesting facts you may not have known: 1910 - the high-level walkways, which were designed so that the public could still cross the bridge when it was raised, were closed down due to lack of use. 1912 - during an emergency, Frank McClean had to fly between the bascules and the high-level walkways in his Short biplane, to avoid an accident. 1952 - a London bus driven by Albert Gunton had to leap from one bascule to the other when the bridge began to rise with the number 78 bus still on it. 1977 - Tower Bridge was painted red, white and blue to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee. (Before that, it was painted a chocolate brown colour). 1982 - Tower Bridge opened to the public for the first time since 1910, with a permanent exhibition inside called The Tower Bridge Experience. http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/TBE/EN/BridgeHistory/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

For those who like to sing.........

My way

F.Sinatra


And now, the end is near
And so I face the final curtain.
My friends, I'll say it clear;
I'll state my case of which I'm certain.

I've lived a life that's full -
I've travelled each and every highway.
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Regrets? I've had a few,
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption.

I planned each charted course -
Each careful step along the byway,
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew,
When I bit off more than I could chew,
But through it all, when there was doubt,
I ate it up and spit it out.
I faced it all and I stood tall
And did it my way.

I've loved, I've laughed and cried,
I've had my fill - my share of losing.
But now, as tears subside,
I find it all so amusing.

To think I did all that,
And may I say, not in a shy way -
Oh no. Oh no, not me.
I did it my way.

For what is a man? What has he got?
If not himself - Then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows
And did it my way.

Yes, it was my way.

How do you say?

Hi

In this page you can find animals with the exact name for :

Young,Female, Male, Group Adjective, Sex and unspecified generic term


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_names

An interview to David Lodge

Rummidging around the career of David Lodge

Watch this interview in youtube.......Its great!!!!!!!

Shakespeare !!!!!!!!!

All the world`s a stage



All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide

This is for ANA from all of us!!!!!!!!!!!