News: Google Introduces Aurebesh

I found this new when I was trying to get a reliable translator. I felt rally shocked because I'm a huge fan of Star Wars saga. Soy may the force be with you to read this!

SUMMARY:
On November 23rd, the official twitter account of google posted a link. This brought you to google translate and it allowed you to write in Aurebesh, the language that the "Galactic Community speaks". This made some social networks get full of new characters that had never been seen on the internet. This was due to a tribute thay made to a boy who was terminal cancer ill, and could see the 7th film before dying.

Google has had more than 200 milion views and the 23rd it was the most translated language of the day, followed by chinese.

Vocabulary learned:
Tribute: An act done for remembering or giving honour to somebody.
Aurebesh: Name of the language used in "star wars saga"
Collapse: To be full and blocked (a network in this case).

I did a translation for you to see how it works:

 Opinion:
I think that this is very positive from google, doing a tribute like this to a simple man can say  a lot about a corporation. Personally I have to say that I have spent the whole morning translating the film plot! I've had a lot of fun. And I don't think there is anything else to say about this. Bye!

News: Putin gets Turkish advice "Don't play with fire"

I found this new on the Huffington post, It was posted a few days a go. It consists on a declaration that the Turkish prime minister did which refered to Russia.

SUMMARY:
Vladimir Putin has been warned not "to play with fire" by the Turkish army. This is due to the fact that both nations did several reivindicative acts against what happened last week. By one side, a russian warplane was destroyed by a turkish missile. By th other, Russia threatened Turkey stating that he would have his personal revenge.


The polemic is between to versions of what happened. Russia says that the plane was destroyed on Syria's territory (30 miles away from the frontier). Turkish says that they spent a lot of time warning that plane to abandon their jurisdiction and they finally destroyed it for the security of their citizens.

Turkey's politicians say that it's been a problem between these countries armys, they say that they wouldn't like to damage the relations between Russia and Turkey.

Vocabulary learned:
Stab in the back: Betrayal
To bomb sth: To do repetitive attacks with aerial explosives somewhere.
Airspace: Security jurisdiction that a country has. In this space they can destroy whatever it threats their security.

 Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish prime minister

Vladimir Putin, Russian prime minister

My opinion:

I think that this conflict might not have been taken this way. It's true that both countries have problems with Syria so they should help each other instead of stabbing each other. Maybe what motivated Syria to attack Russia is the unstable history of the european giant. It wouldn't be the first time they commit betrayal so they had more than a reason to be afraid. In the other hand, there are more ways to stop a plane than destroying it, there are Russian ambassadors in Ankhara...but it's just a formal suggestment... Summarizing, it has been a wrong act from both sides, but specially from Turkey who might not destroy anymore planes that can cause their self destruction.

 Russian bomb with the message  "for ours" written on it

 Russian technician writing "for Paris" on a bomb

Source:http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/27/vladimir-putin-downed-jet-erdogan_n_8665200.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

Review: Kingsman

About three months ago, I saw this film and I'd like to share my experience with you.

Kingsman talks about a kid who lives in a slum which is in London. His father died when he was a baby and he has been gettin' into trouble since then. When he grows up he is specially good at stealing, escaping and other delinquent acts. This causes him lots of problems. But a man who belongs to a secret agence tries to make him go another way. He tries to help him to be what his father was, a secret agent from the "Kingsman" agence. This is very attractive for him, and he begins working to get that status.

After a long time working to refine his abilities his superiors ask him to kill the dog that has belonged to him since the training process began, but he doesn't want so he doesn't get the job. Everything begins to change when he discovers that Kingsman is involved into the biggest massacre ever. A multimilionaire wants to create chaos in the world by making everyone crazy (they kill themselves ones to each others). So 3 people who were working in kingsman and himself decide to save the world. After having said thiss I don't think you want me to do spoiler of the end, go and check it yourselves.

When the film ended I really felt strange, I had the sensation of having seen the film before, and the fact is that I had. This film is an accumulation of spying films. The handsome boy ends up with the pretty girl, the villain dies, the world is saved 1 sec before it's destroyed, the mentor dies at the begining,... All those elements that appear in all the films of this genre. But I have to say that I had a lot of fun watching it and this is one of the best parodies that I have seen lately. I highly recommend it to all of you, get some crisps and a warm sofa, then spend a good afternoon watching Kingsman!

My experience working

This summer I had the chance to get a job. I worked in a restaurant as a waiter and I really learned a lot about how this world works. I applied for the job in may and they hired me before I ended school the 10th June I think. The first days I only did the night service because I had to be in the school during the day. The first days I felt a bit clumsy and everything was difficult, but day and day after I learned new things that helped me to have more control. My record of services was 240 people with only 2 waiters and 3 cooks. That really helps you to get your mood pumped, you feel very relaxed and useful! The thing that shocked me the most was having a salary, I really felt that I had earned it. I was so happy too with my workmates (we were already friends when I began working there), they behaved really well with me and taught me a lot of things.

Another thing I liked, that I didn't expect I would like, were grateful customers. I don't know why but you feel really good when somebody you don't know tells you things like "Nice english!" or "You're so good for being that young!". I didn't really felt proud about the message itself but for the comprehension. Sometimes is not easy to be always smiling when there are 7 tables waiting for menus.

What I also enjoyed a lot was a day specially, we organized a jam session in the restaurant and I was invited to play the guitar, I had a really great time showing how did I play to the customers! I leave some pics below, hope you like 'em!

Song analysis: One - Metallica

Metallica's song "one" is probably the most iconic song of this group, not just because of the moment when it was released, It has many aspects that might be considered to conclude that this is their best job until now.

This song talks about the agony of a man who has just come back from Vietnam's war. He has some fatal wounds that don't let him be alive in the sensorial meaning. In fact, the song says "Darkness is prisioning me, absolut horror, I cannot see, I cannot talk, I cannot live let me please lie in hell". This caused a lod of polemic because it was a critical song against government's on marine actions. Another sentence that shows desesperation would be the chorus: "Hold my breath as I wish for death, please God save me". These would be the lyrics meaning.

Then if we look at this song and we try to see how was it composed, we see many other aspects that are pretty relevant. The intro has 3 chords "B5", "G3" and "A5sus". This progression is very strange, but it's usually used in Vietnam for folklore songs. Then, if we study the 2nd part of the song, the guitars, and the drums try to make a sound which is similar to a machinegun shooting, this is for making people feel anxious, scared a little bit, this is sensitive emulation. The last part we can analize is the solo. Kirk Hammett (the composer of the solo and lead guitarist) said that this solo has 2 parts: The first one tries to emulate life going away from the body and the second one the last struggle against death.

Well, hope you learned a little bit from this song, and I encourage you to listen some more metallica stuff!

My research project

On these days we're all very excited and this is because the research project ends up in a few weeks. A whole year of work finishes in December 21st. So I thought that it would be nice to explain you what is my project about. The thing is that as I think you may not be keen on Quantum mechanics it will be a bit difficult.

My project is based in a single thing, Schrödinger's equation. The mental effort that it would be necessary to solve it is no problem because I work with a program that solves it. As most of you won't know what it is I'll explain it in the easiest way I know. The Schrödingers equation is mathematical expression that gives information about a zone where there are a lot of possibilities of finding electrons. It's just no more than that. Why I say possibility? Because you can't know where it is with full precision. This would be the central topic of the project, but now I'll proceed to explain you how I've structured it.

First of all I begin by explaining where does it come from, I talk about the origins of athom's concept. It comes from Greek phylosophy. Then I carry on explaining the first athomic models by Ernst Rutherford. After that I dedicate a Whole chapter to talk about Einstein, Bohr, Planck, Heisenberg and Schrödinger himself. This is probably what has costed me the most effort, because my level at the beggining was 0. In the last part I talk about the modern athom's concept and the digital methods that physicists use to work.

I think that this will be enough for you, I wouldn't like to do spoiler. You'll see my whole project in the 2nd term.

Hadlow gets ready for 2015

Source: http://kitemovement.com/general/aaron-hadlow-and-the-2015-north-vegas/

The guys at North Kiteboarding, together with their amazing team rider, the 5X World Champ Aaron Hadlow are already prepared for the upcoming season. North released the 2014 gear line a few months ago, but it seems their development team knows no rest.

They are in a constant search of developing and creating the perfect gear. And they have been busy developing a new version of the Vegas for 2015. Aaron Hadlow and the guys at North were spotted at Langebaan, Cape Town, testing some prototypes of the 2015 North Vegas and North Dice.
The 2014 Vegas is a versatile, high depower C-kite, that offers out of this world freestyle and wakestyle performance. The 2015 Vegas also seems to be wakestyle and freestyle oriented C-kite, with a more elongated shape and a slightly rounder profile. The graphics are not yet set. We don’t know how the new kite will behave yet, but we have big expectations from North. You can check out a few pics of the 2015 Vegas prototype at the testing site below.


For the first time since 2001 The amazing 5xWorld champ Aaron Hadlow opens his eyes to some new possibilities. After having left Flexifoil kites (who had a line up named "The Hadlow brand") he sees that North kiteboarding can give him the power he is trying to find. Last month he was spotted in Langebaan (SA) testing North prototypes like the Dice, the Vegas and a 6 line kite that kiteboarders think it will be a Hadlow Pro Model. This is a very stunning notice in kiteboarding that could make North kiteboarding get used to freestyle and wakestyle podiums. For the north kiteboarding riders it means a new way of kiting, a new kite, a new style, a new Era.

OPINION:

I think that Hadlow has done well moving to north cause, flexi was a bit old now, and their security sistems were not reliable anymore. With moving to North and introducing the new kite concept 6-line mount he has given the amateur kitesurfers a chance to be able to get into the pro's world, by giving an easy to fly kite, with massive pop, and power release delay. I have tried it twice: the first time on lightwind and I got a very strange feeling because I went so high with a very "poor" pop. The second one was with a lot of wind and I found it easy. Pulled my first megaloops. Well, North guys have done a good job with this stuff. :)

Book review: "Muerte por funky"

Well, "Muerte por Funky" is a spanish book that explains the story of Joaquín Balboa AKA Eutanasio, who is a sicary that kills suicide victims who have not enough courage to kill themselves. He is also a fan of funky music and directs a group named Funktastic Four. This is his main motivation, doing a very big thing with his group.

This book explains as well the life's of the suicide victims. Maybe this book has risk factor for the author, because it tries to be funny and if you don't like it the first moment you will hate it and maybe stop reading it. My problem was this one when I read it, that I didn't like the humor so it went extremely long for me.I didn't like the arguments because for me was a "whole no-sense" compressed in 200 pages. But uh, what more could I say from a no-sense...

I haven't liked it at all cause I didn't like the humor basically. But I either liked the p`lot because I think that simplicity is very important in the books and you can just explain 2 lifes at the same time. If you explayn 5 different stories in every cahpter people gets lost and tired.

Albert Einstein and the relativity, a valuable theory.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci/albert-einstein/search=o?

SUMMARY:

Albert Einstein was a very important physicist of the last century. He wasn't really considered such as that smart man that we use to know. Einstein was a teacher in a university. All his studies went around time, its measure, its constancy even its reality. Although no one wanted to finnance Einstein's project he began trying new mathematical concepts, new ways of using our own theories. Perseverance paid off, and Einstein got to discover a relationship between energy, mass and light's velocity The famous "E=mc<exp>2". This theory says that bodies, at velocities close to the light's one begin to desintegrate, reduce its density, but even though they increase their mass. This can't be prooved with exactitude of course, so we can't get close to light's velocity but some resent experiments with hadrons sghow how this particles acquire mass while they get closer to light's velocity. But this is not the relativity theory, that is what everybody knows the name of. This last theory explains that time is not absolute. Time is not the same for everyone, that is a personal perception. It purposes that each of us sees different things and has different concepts. How could I explain it for you to understand it easily... Well, let's see: You see the coulours as you think they are right? Okay then, imagine another people who sees the coulours completely different than you do. Now imagine that this person recieves the same education than you. So he will think that the colours you see will be the same than he does because red (for him blue) will be red because he learned it like this, and you too. He doesn't know it because it's his reality, as you have yours or another person has his or hers. This is what relativity purposes: time is unstable, it responds to mathematic equations, and as faster you go, it passes slower. People who travels a lot has to readjust the watch constantly because it has a delay on it!


VOCABULARY:

Hadron: quantical particle with no mass that gets into a quark or a neutrine when interacts with a boson, it can be detected because it leaves mark on gamma radiations.


PERSONAL OPINION:

As it is a science article it's difficult to give a valuable opinion but I'll try. I can't really disagree, because if I doubt of this all my base in physics disappears. Maybe it's not prooved yet but in afew years think we can guess how to do a time freezing, this theory responds to it.

My favorite kiteboarder

My favorite rider is Youri Zoon.

He is favorite one because of he is the kindest and the most perseverant rider in the PKRA world tour (kiteboarding world championship). He is one of the kindest because he has given a lot of money from his 2 world championships to an association against kids bad treatment in netherlands. He is the most perseverant because in 2006 when he joined the PKRA competed 2 years and got 5th in the overall ranking. After that, in 2007, he got injured, a very complicated ACL in his knee. Doctors said that he may not be able to ever kite again. But family, friens and sponsors, knew that Youri would make his comeback. Then in 2009 Youri came back being 3rd on 2009 overall ranking. With this he made the most succesful comeback ever in the PKRA. 2 years later, Youri, wins every single competition out there only loosing on the doubles. In the last stop in the PKRA, Youri is very close to loose against his worst nightmare, Alex Pastor. Alex has not been able to beat him yet but in this competition things can change. In New Caledonia there are only 20kts of steady wind and lots of choppy in the bay, it doesn't look good... As a small miracle Youri makes it into the final against Alex Pastor. Youri knows what is going to happen if he doesn't make proffit of this opportunity so he makes the best trick sequence ever. Without getting hooked he does an s-mobe, a front blind mobe, and finally a kiteloop 9. Judges are amazed and give youri 42.5 points. Alex only getts 36.5. So Youri gets the Ultimate reward, the world championship. 

He does a very hard workout between 2011 and 2012 season, so in 2012 he wins the world title again and he doesn't have the same supremacy but he wins the world title and Alex Pastor wants to win next year.

This year the competition has been leaded by Alex Pastor(who is the current world champion), Marc Jacobs(2nd in the overall) and finally Liam Whaley and Christoph Tack (they are currently fighting for the 3rd place in Argentina's PKRA stop). There is an upcoming talent in the youngster (according to my opinion), Patrick Blanc. This young rider is from Barcelona and is one of the best riders I've ever seen. He does a few tricks that amaze me: front mobe (his most powerful trick in my opinion), blindjudge 5 and tantrum to blind are my favorite tricks (he can do lots of tricks but these are the most amazing ones.

My favorite song in english

U2-Raised by Wolves

Face down on broken street
There’s a man in the corner
In a pool of misery
I’m in a white van
As a red sea covers the ground
Metal crash I can’t tell what it is
But I take a look and now I’m sorry I did
5:30 on a Friday night
33 good people cut down

I don’t believe anymore
I don’t believe anymore

Face down on a pillow of shame
There are some girls with a needle
Trying to spell my name
My body’s not a canvas
My body’s now a toilet wall

I don’t believe anymore
I don’t believe anymore

Raised by wolves
Stronger than fear
Raised by wolves
We were raised by wolves
Raised by wolves
Stronger than fear
If I open my eyes
You dissappear

I don’t believe anymore
I don’t believe anymore

Boy sees his father crushed under the weight
Of a cross in a passion where the passion is hate
Blue mink Ford, I’m gonna detonate and you’re dead
Blood in the house
Blood on the street
The worst tings in the world are justified by belief
Registration 1385-WZ

I don’t believe anymore
I don’t believe anymore

Raised by wolves
Stronger than fear
Raised by wolves
We were raised by wolves
Raised by wolves
Stronger than fear
If I open my eyes
You dissappear

This song from U2 talks about a terrorist attack that was done by adolescents. They had been convinced to do this by a terrorist band and at that moment thay were really scared. The song says that they were raised by wolves, what means a bit that their warrior and betrayer spirit impulsed them to do this. They putted a bomb car in the street and detonated it, killing with this a lot of innocent people. Bono, the U2's leader and singer said that the tittle of the album would be songs of innocence because songs would be related to things that affected innocent people. He also gave a lot of money to the affected families of each cause. This album has been released this 2014 and the peculiarity has been taht it has appeared in everybody's iTunes for free, what has given to U2 1,000,000 more followers in all the social networks. 

Batxillerat

This year I have begun Batxillerat and I was really scared about how would things change and how much would it cost me to get adapted. In this sense I'm really impressed cause I've had very nice results. I'm trying to get adapted on some subjects yet but hard working I won't have complications. The biggest difference I've found is that last year I did almost nothing and I had the same marks I'm having (this year I'm working a lot). Something I don't like is that some people who study Batxillerat are not really concious that this is a serious period and we have to study as much as possible, and with their annoying interventions we get delayed. Don't know what more to say, maybe that my favorite subjects are Physics and Maths, and I've met new people who are becoming very important for me. Another thing I've noticed is that, as we grow up, we use to become mor social and we meet new friends without even noticing! But we also get worse in other things such as discipline, don't know if it's cause we feel we are old enough or just for any sort of mental problems. Well, at last say that I'm proud of being in batxillerat, and I'm also proud of all my friends cause some of them find it really difficult and with a bit of help they get very good results!

A kitesurfing accidental day

Last weekend I went to sail to La Palme (France), because I knew there was a good forecast there and I didn't want to lose such an oportunity. I left home at 9:30 A.M. and went straight to the frontier, where my friends and I stopped to get some food. I think I began feeling pain on my back by that moment. 45 minutes after, we got there, and there was no wind yet, so we mounted our basecamp and stayed joking until the wind became strong enough to have a nice session. At 12:00 AM more or less the wind picked up to 15 gnarly knots, that went up and down unconstantly. We decided to sail though, we where really desperated.

The first accident of the day happened when my friend Genis, (who is a bit silly sometimes)-sorry me if you read this- got lost in the worst part of the lagoon. La Palme is a lagoon surrounded by forests and when he wanted to investigate insider he didn't know how to come back. The thing is: the wind went down and we didn't know where he was, so we decided to go for him. After 1 hour of hard research we found him walking on the side of the road with the kite under the arm and dirty of mud! Well at least he wasn't hurt.

The second one was when my friend Carlos jumped and faceplanted his landing on his own car (nobody thought that this could happen but it did so...).

Then the third involved me and my back pain. I had been sailing the whole day and I hadn't almost felt any pain, but at 3:00 PM the wind picked up to 20 steady knots and I went straight into the water for having the sesh I hadn't had yet, and that happened, when i tried to do the backmobe i landed very hard and had an overstrectchment in my back. I couldn't take my shoes off, I was tied to the board and I couldn't move, I felt an intense pain. My friends took me out of the water how they could and brought me to the sand, when I was getting up to stay on foot I got stucked, I began feeling a lot of pain in my back and couldn't move. Oh shit, this is serious. We were a bit scared, I'm just 15. 15 year-old people don't get stucked on their backs. We went straight to the closest hospital where they gave me something that made me recover a bit of my movement.

This is a normal day of my weekends ;)

Kitesurf in Sant Pere Pescador, an endless pursuit.

In my village, there is a lot of sea culture. It includes the sea sports of course, but there is one that has never been accepted at all: Kitesurf.

The little minority of people who practice this sport is tired of having the same problems with the coasts department tear after year. We just want to sail but the mayor doesn't understand it. He has given interviews to many newspapers where he says that the decrease of beach tourism is our fault, for our incivism. We don't agree, of course no! There are just a few kiters that use to generate problems and they are: Tourists and learners. There are not many kiters that are ib this conditions cause most of the riders know the spot, and know what to do for not having any problems. It's not fair that we all have to pay for that. We just have 150m to sail over 8km of beach! Okey that it,s full but there are parts that are really empty and they don't give us any more meters. The problem with this kite zone is that we have to pay for it and it costs above 150€ for just 3 months! I'm really disappointed about this cause many people can't afford paying it and they need to kite, so they go to another zone which is ilegal, for this reason (that is not really our fault) we are considered the sea piracy.

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Vocaroo Voice Message

E-mail to my teacher :)

My name is Pau and I'm 15 years old. I'm a student of first Batxillerat and I've chosen the scientific speciallization. I've chosen this one because I'd like to study physics and mathematics in the university. You told us to send you an e-mail about our experience as English learners so this is what I'm about to do now. 

I began to study english when I was three. By that age I began learning to count from 1 to 10 and to say some easy words. I began studying the first verbs at 1rst of primary, where I learnt the verb "to be" and the verb "have". Little by little I learnt more and more verbs, and I also learned some tenses. When I was 9 I did my first past tenses, and when I was 11 I began with the future. In 1st ESO I learned the conditionals(1st, 2nd and 3rd) and in 2nd I learnt the passive voice that was really easy for me (I've never reached to understand why). In 2012 I travelled abroad for the first time. I was young, alone and afraid of leaving home for no more and no less than ONE MONTH!!!! In Ireland I improved a lot, I almost reached the local basic speaking level and succesfully passed the B2.1 exam. That trip was like a "click" for me because there was where I got my level of English that I've been improving very slowly since then. From 3r ESO to now i haven't improved my level very much. Even though I'm very proud of my it. 

My future plans for English learning are studying and speaking a lot for reaching the CAE level and being able to pass this exam. 

Thanks for your attention.