The Ironman World Triathlon Championship or Ironman Triathlon is an annual thriatlon race, made famous by its grueling length, race conditions, and sports television coverage.
Held every fall in the US city of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, the race encompasses three endurance events of a 3.86 kilometer ocean swim in Kailua-Kona Bay, followed by a 180.2 kilometer ride bike across the Hawaiian lava desert to Hawi and back), and ending with a 42.195 kilometer marathon along the coast of the Big Island (from Keauhou to Keahole Point to Kailua-Kona); finishing on Ali'i Drive.
Dick Hoyt is competitor of this Ironman triathlon. His dream was to have the chance to compete in the same team with his son Rick but he was disable at birth by a loss of oxygen to his brain because his umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck. Rick born with mental and physical problems but his father promised himself that he would made real his dream.
This video is incredible. I hope you enjoy it as I did and to appreciate the greatness of the love of this father to his son.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flRvsO8m_KI&feature=related
Friday, November 23, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
SOME WORDS FROM YOUR TEACHER...
Well, I can't help feeling proud of all your performance & production here!!!! Some of you plunged into blogging as soon as I posted the first entry back in JULY, others got hooked later but never stopped doing it!!! The point is that this has served not only an academic purpose (more reading, more writing, developing a sense of voice among the whole class), but I guess it has served all of you to express yourselves more openly and share stuff we wouldn't have had the chance to know hadn't we started blogging.
A SPECIAL WORD FOR ALL WHO HAD THEIR PERSONAL PRINT HERE....
JOSEMA: Yours was the FIRST student post. Then you kept on working hard and adding a personal touch throughout. Excellent work!!!!! I REALLY ENJOYED READING YOUR STUFF.
CORINA: Always personal & authentic. We want more of your SENSIBILITY!!
DANIEL: You really surprised me with your topics and responses. GREAT WORK!!
LEO: THOUGHTFUL and DEEP. A pleasure to read, always!!!
AGUSTIN: SHARP and superb. You added a unique, personal touch!
ALEX: took you some time... but eventually got involved and gained an important space. Great!
NACHO: Really interesting issues introduced. Just grrrreat.
VALENTINA: Really interesting posts. A female touch in our blog.
ANDREA: It's amazing to see so many posts by YOU!!! I think you got the highest rate of publication. Superb work!!!
LUCIA: You also surprised me with so many posts. Really INTERESTING to read. As well as varied. GREAT!
AMALITA: Another side to yourself. You participated fully here, I really enjoyed your work!!
ALEJANDRO: Only ONE post, but good. We all missed a bit of your critical view on things, and clarity of mind.
AGOSTINA: Nice work. Don't just fade away. KEEP ON WORKING HARD!!
CHANCHO: Very nice supply of general info. Great work, I know you can do much more!!
MARTINA: Great pics!! You and the girls added colour and life to this blog!
BELEN: Really interesting posts to read. SUPER!!
SACHA: Good you found your way to show yourself. ORIGINAL.
This is not a GOODBYE. Work is done, IT'S TRUE.
But you can KEEP ON WORKING and PUBLISHING YOURSELF here.
A place to SHARE & GROW. KEEP ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is not only a CLASS BLOG anymore. IT IS YOURS, OURS. I do expect you feel free to continue searching into topics of your interest and sharing them with your English class. Why not take this space to SHARE and publish stuff you all feel may be of interest for the group? A way to keep in contact once the lessons are over??
A SPECIAL WORD FOR ALL WHO HAD THEIR PERSONAL PRINT HERE....
JOSEMA: Yours was the FIRST student post. Then you kept on working hard and adding a personal touch throughout. Excellent work!!!!! I REALLY ENJOYED READING YOUR STUFF.
CORINA: Always personal & authentic. We want more of your SENSIBILITY!!
DANIEL: You really surprised me with your topics and responses. GREAT WORK!!
LEO: THOUGHTFUL and DEEP. A pleasure to read, always!!!
AGUSTIN: SHARP and superb. You added a unique, personal touch!
ALEX: took you some time... but eventually got involved and gained an important space. Great!
NACHO: Really interesting issues introduced. Just grrrreat.
VALENTINA: Really interesting posts. A female touch in our blog.
ANDREA: It's amazing to see so many posts by YOU!!! I think you got the highest rate of publication. Superb work!!!
LUCIA: You also surprised me with so many posts. Really INTERESTING to read. As well as varied. GREAT!
AMALITA: Another side to yourself. You participated fully here, I really enjoyed your work!!
ALEJANDRO: Only ONE post, but good. We all missed a bit of your critical view on things, and clarity of mind.
AGOSTINA: Nice work. Don't just fade away. KEEP ON WORKING HARD!!
CHANCHO: Very nice supply of general info. Great work, I know you can do much more!!
MARTINA: Great pics!! You and the girls added colour and life to this blog!
BELEN: Really interesting posts to read. SUPER!!
SACHA: Good you found your way to show yourself. ORIGINAL.
This is not a GOODBYE. Work is done, IT'S TRUE.
But you can KEEP ON WORKING and PUBLISHING YOURSELF here.
A place to SHARE & GROW. KEEP ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friday, November 16, 2007
Martina's birthday...!!!!
This picture has been taken at Martina's birthday..on the 11th , November... we really enjoyed it and have a good time all together.. here we are, me (lucia) and Martina danccing balls.. (during martina's 18th birthday)jaja ..
We also have made face-painting..as you can see in our faces....really nice!!
then we go to a party in Tucuman Rugby..... FELIZZ CUMPLE MARTU!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARTU!!
Thursday, November 15, 2007
TONY MELENDEZ: AN EXAMPLE OF LIFE!
Tony Meléndez (born 1962) is a Nicaraguan American guitar player, composer and singer and songwriter who was born without arms. He went to live to the United States because in Nicaragua there wasn’t the adequate medicine that he needed. When he was a child he didn’t realize that he was different but later at school when his classmates said: “ohh! That boy doesn’t have arms”, that hurt his heart.
From the beginning ha had to learn how to use his feet because there were his unique tools to do everything, for writing.
He has two sisters and a brother and his mother. His father died when he was young and now he is really grateful to him because his father left his place of birth so to take Tony to USA. He was the one that encouraged Tony to do all the things by his own.
Now he is married and with his wife adopted two children, a boy and a girl, from El Salvador and Nicaragua because they weren’t able to have children.
I think that he is an example of life because he can do lot of things only with his feet. He is a symbol of hope for all of us that don’t have his incapacity because with a lot of effort and courage he fights against his problem and he seems like a normal person.
One famous phrase he said was: “please don’t tell me that you can’t because you can do much more than me, only stand up and say I want, I can and I will move forward”. I decided to post this because Valentina had posted something similar of a man without arms and legs, well comment on it.
Here is a video of him that is very emotive, watch it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoLoFe3Eze8
From the beginning ha had to learn how to use his feet because there were his unique tools to do everything, for writing.
He has two sisters and a brother and his mother. His father died when he was young and now he is really grateful to him because his father left his place of birth so to take Tony to USA. He was the one that encouraged Tony to do all the things by his own.
Now he is married and with his wife adopted two children, a boy and a girl, from El Salvador and Nicaragua because they weren’t able to have children.
I think that he is an example of life because he can do lot of things only with his feet. He is a symbol of hope for all of us that don’t have his incapacity because with a lot of effort and courage he fights against his problem and he seems like a normal person.
One famous phrase he said was: “please don’t tell me that you can’t because you can do much more than me, only stand up and say I want, I can and I will move forward”. I decided to post this because Valentina had posted something similar of a man without arms and legs, well comment on it.
Here is a video of him that is very emotive, watch it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoLoFe3Eze8
more pictures from our chilhood !
here a picture with my classmate corina and belen !! in the kinder garden
what to study next year ???
http://www.loyola.edu.bo/Test/
As we all know the secondary school is finishing , and next year we have to enter to the university , but some uf us aren't sure about what they are going to study , so I look for vacational test in Internet , and this is the bast option that I found , Its very useful , so I hope you coul do it !
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As we all know the secondary school is finishing , and next year we have to enter to the university , but some uf us aren't sure about what they are going to study , so I look for vacational test in Internet , and this is the bast option that I found , Its very useful , so I hope you coul do it !
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Tafi with some friends!
This upiscture was taken last year in one of our weakends at Tafi del Valle. In that momento we were waiting for the bus to came back to the city, the worst moment ,,, but as you can see we continued happy because as always when we are together we have a great time! specially when we are far away and can share every moment of the day. This year we went some times too and I hope we can go to end this year all together!
School violence
School violence in the United States
I was shocked with the news of 32 people killed on the Campus of Virginia Tech last April 16 th.
However that was not just an isolated case, it was perhaps the best known all over the world, but it is just one more of the many cases you can read every day in the American newspapers. That is the reason why I will consider the causes and possible solutions to this crisis in schools.
School violence does not exist in a vacuum, it is directly related to the violence in our society. For many children particulary those who experience family violence early in their lives , school can often be safer than the environment where they live.
Agression and violence are the direct result of learned behabiour. American society is full of examples of violence and aggression that unfortunately have become a part of their daily lives regardless of where they live, work or play.
The main causes of this terrible situation are serious personal and phycological problems suffered by the agressors. The reason may be romantic break up, a sense of isolation, loneliness, luck of family atmosphere. The influence of drugs and alcohol, also affects their aggressive behaviour . The media also help shape the minds of children, cartoon, video games and movies are full of examples of brave, aggressive and violent male characters.
Nearly 50 % of the homicide perpretators have some type of warning signal prior to the event. Among the students who commited school homicide 20% where known to have been victims on bullying.
Bullying is a form of aggression that children begin to show in their first years of school. It can lead to more violent forms of behaviour if it is ignored by the school authorities. Unfortunately disciplinary programmes in schools typically do not take seriously the development of violent behaviour in children until it is almost too late to reverse. Educators are expected to pass along information , few are expected to promote values trhough education . This is not to say that nothing can be done to change this culture of violence .The disciplinary policies of schools need to change from excluding and suspending students to addressing the problem from a preventive perspective.
It is necessary to take threats and talks of suicide seriously. Pomoting prevention programmes that are designed to help teachers and other school staff in respond to incidents of bullying between students.
To conclude I can say that it is everyone s responsibility to do more to prevent violence among children and young people and to teach them about ways to solve arguments and fights without violence.
I was shocked with the news of 32 people killed on the Campus of Virginia Tech last April 16 th.
However that was not just an isolated case, it was perhaps the best known all over the world, but it is just one more of the many cases you can read every day in the American newspapers. That is the reason why I will consider the causes and possible solutions to this crisis in schools.
School violence does not exist in a vacuum, it is directly related to the violence in our society. For many children particulary those who experience family violence early in their lives , school can often be safer than the environment where they live.
Agression and violence are the direct result of learned behabiour. American society is full of examples of violence and aggression that unfortunately have become a part of their daily lives regardless of where they live, work or play.
The main causes of this terrible situation are serious personal and phycological problems suffered by the agressors. The reason may be romantic break up, a sense of isolation, loneliness, luck of family atmosphere. The influence of drugs and alcohol, also affects their aggressive behaviour . The media also help shape the minds of children, cartoon, video games and movies are full of examples of brave, aggressive and violent male characters.
Nearly 50 % of the homicide perpretators have some type of warning signal prior to the event. Among the students who commited school homicide 20% where known to have been victims on bullying.
Bullying is a form of aggression that children begin to show in their first years of school. It can lead to more violent forms of behaviour if it is ignored by the school authorities. Unfortunately disciplinary programmes in schools typically do not take seriously the development of violent behaviour in children until it is almost too late to reverse. Educators are expected to pass along information , few are expected to promote values trhough education . This is not to say that nothing can be done to change this culture of violence .The disciplinary policies of schools need to change from excluding and suspending students to addressing the problem from a preventive perspective.
It is necessary to take threats and talks of suicide seriously. Pomoting prevention programmes that are designed to help teachers and other school staff in respond to incidents of bullying between students.
To conclude I can say that it is everyone s responsibility to do more to prevent violence among children and young people and to teach them about ways to solve arguments and fights without violence.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Common superstitions, Omens and Myths- What is Superstition?
According to Webster's dictionary, superstition is any belief that is inconsistent with the known laws of science or with what is considered true and rational; esp., such a belief in omens, the supernatural, etc.
Halloween is traditionally the time when common superstitions, folklore, myths and omens carry more weight to those who believe. Superstition origins go back thousands of years ago. Beliefs include good luck charms, amulets, bad luck, fortunes, cures, portents, omens and predictions, fortunes and spells.
Bad fallacies far outweigh the good, especially around Halloween when myths run rampant. When it comes right down to it, many people still believe that omens can predict our destiny and misfortune -- particularly for the worse.
Superstitions & Bad Luck Omens
Black Cats
Black cats have long been believed to be a supernatural omen since the witch hunts of the middle ages when cats were thought to be connected to evil. Since then, it is considered bad luck if a black cat crosses your path.
Broken Mirrors
An ancient myth our ancestors believed was that the image in a mirror is our actual soul. A broken mirror represented the soul being astray from your body. To break the spell of misfortune, you must wait seven hours (one for each year of bad luck) before picking up the broken pieces, and bury them outside in the moonlight.
Ladders
In the days before the gallows, criminals were hung from the top rung of a ladder and their spirits were believed to linger underneath. Common folklore has it to be bad luck to walk beneath an open ladder and pass through the triangle of evil ghosts and spirits.
Owls
If an owl looks in your window or if you seeing one in the daylight bad luck and death will bestow you.
Salt
At one time salt was a rare commodity and thought to have magical powers. It was unfortunate to spill salt and said to foretell family disarray and death. To ward off bad luck, throw a pinch over your shoulder and all will be well.
Sparrows
Sparrows are thought to carry the souls of the dead and it is believed to bring bad luck if you kill one.
Unlucky Number #13
The fear of the number 13 is still common today, and avoided in many different ways. Some buildings still do not have an official 13th floor and many people avoid driving or going anywhere on Friday the 13th.
Good Luck Superstitions
Horseshoes
To bring good luck, the horseshoe must lost by a horse and be found by you, with the open end facing your way. You must hang it over the door with the open end up, so the good fortune doesn't spill out.
Another origin of the 'lucky horseshoe' is the belief that they ward off witches. Witches, it was once believed, were opposed to horses, which is why they rode brooms and pitchforks instead. By placing a horseshoe over a door, the witch would be reluctant to enter. (Hat tip: Iris)
Four Leaf Clover
Clover is believed to protect humans and animals from evil spells and is thought to be good luck to find a four leaf clover, particularly for the Irish.
Rabbit's Foot
These lucky charms are thought to ward off bad luck and bring good luck. You mush carry the rabbit's foot on a chain around your neck, or in your left back pocket. The older it gets, the more good luck it brings.
Wishbones
Two people are to pull apart a dried breastbone of a turkey or chicken and the one who is left with the longer end will have their wish come true.
Common Myths & Folklore
If the flame of a candle flickers and then turns blue, there's a spirit in the room.
If a bird flies through your house, it indicates important news. If it can't get out, the news will be death.
If you feel a chill up your spine, someone is walking on your future grave.
A person born on Halloween will have the gift of communicating with the dead.
A bat in the house is a sign of death.
If a bird flies towards you, bad fortune is imminent.
If your palm itches, you will soon receive money. If you itch it, your money will never come.
Crows are viewed as a bad omen, often foretelling death. If they caw, death is very near.
Many Romans wore lucky charms and amulets to avert the "evil eye."
If a person experiences great horror, their hair turns white.
A hat on a bed will bring bad luck.
Eat an apple on Christmas Eve for good health the next year.
The superstition of knocking on wood for good luck originates from pagan beliefs in regards to trees.
I personally dont believe in all this staff of things, I think they are only "mitos", of each culture. Although I not agree with this things , it happened to be really interested.. so here you have it if you want to read it!!
article extracted from: www.halloween-website.com/superstitions
Halloween is traditionally the time when common superstitions, folklore, myths and omens carry more weight to those who believe. Superstition origins go back thousands of years ago. Beliefs include good luck charms, amulets, bad luck, fortunes, cures, portents, omens and predictions, fortunes and spells.
Bad fallacies far outweigh the good, especially around Halloween when myths run rampant. When it comes right down to it, many people still believe that omens can predict our destiny and misfortune -- particularly for the worse.
Superstitions & Bad Luck Omens
Black Cats
Black cats have long been believed to be a supernatural omen since the witch hunts of the middle ages when cats were thought to be connected to evil. Since then, it is considered bad luck if a black cat crosses your path.
Broken Mirrors
An ancient myth our ancestors believed was that the image in a mirror is our actual soul. A broken mirror represented the soul being astray from your body. To break the spell of misfortune, you must wait seven hours (one for each year of bad luck) before picking up the broken pieces, and bury them outside in the moonlight.
Ladders
In the days before the gallows, criminals were hung from the top rung of a ladder and their spirits were believed to linger underneath. Common folklore has it to be bad luck to walk beneath an open ladder and pass through the triangle of evil ghosts and spirits.
Owls
If an owl looks in your window or if you seeing one in the daylight bad luck and death will bestow you.
Salt
At one time salt was a rare commodity and thought to have magical powers. It was unfortunate to spill salt and said to foretell family disarray and death. To ward off bad luck, throw a pinch over your shoulder and all will be well.
Sparrows
Sparrows are thought to carry the souls of the dead and it is believed to bring bad luck if you kill one.
Unlucky Number #13
The fear of the number 13 is still common today, and avoided in many different ways. Some buildings still do not have an official 13th floor and many people avoid driving or going anywhere on Friday the 13th.
Good Luck Superstitions
Horseshoes
To bring good luck, the horseshoe must lost by a horse and be found by you, with the open end facing your way. You must hang it over the door with the open end up, so the good fortune doesn't spill out.
Another origin of the 'lucky horseshoe' is the belief that they ward off witches. Witches, it was once believed, were opposed to horses, which is why they rode brooms and pitchforks instead. By placing a horseshoe over a door, the witch would be reluctant to enter. (Hat tip: Iris)
Four Leaf Clover
Clover is believed to protect humans and animals from evil spells and is thought to be good luck to find a four leaf clover, particularly for the Irish.
Rabbit's Foot
These lucky charms are thought to ward off bad luck and bring good luck. You mush carry the rabbit's foot on a chain around your neck, or in your left back pocket. The older it gets, the more good luck it brings.
Wishbones
Two people are to pull apart a dried breastbone of a turkey or chicken and the one who is left with the longer end will have their wish come true.
Common Myths & Folklore
If the flame of a candle flickers and then turns blue, there's a spirit in the room.
If a bird flies through your house, it indicates important news. If it can't get out, the news will be death.
If you feel a chill up your spine, someone is walking on your future grave.
A person born on Halloween will have the gift of communicating with the dead.
A bat in the house is a sign of death.
If a bird flies towards you, bad fortune is imminent.
If your palm itches, you will soon receive money. If you itch it, your money will never come.
Crows are viewed as a bad omen, often foretelling death. If they caw, death is very near.
Many Romans wore lucky charms and amulets to avert the "evil eye."
If a person experiences great horror, their hair turns white.
A hat on a bed will bring bad luck.
Eat an apple on Christmas Eve for good health the next year.
The superstition of knocking on wood for good luck originates from pagan beliefs in regards to trees.
I personally dont believe in all this staff of things, I think they are only "mitos", of each culture. Although I not agree with this things , it happened to be really interested.. so here you have it if you want to read it!!
article extracted from: www.halloween-website.com/superstitions
This is the time to have precautions!
Teen Salon Tanning Restricted by Law in California
Monday, November 29 2004 at 14:03
September 24. The governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a bill stipulating that children under 14 are not allowed under any circumstances to use artificial tanning facilities. The fine for each violation is $2,500 per day. Teens between 14 and 18 need a signed parental consent form to go to a tanning salon.
Before this, the law was already restrictive in this respect: children under 14 had to be accompanied by parents to have access in tanning salons and youngsters between 14 and 18 needed parental consent.
The new law seems to have been adopted as a compromise solution, as it does not bring much improvement to the existing one. Initially, the bill was stipulating that the access of teens under 18 to tanning salons was permitted only under special circumstances, namely only with medical prescription. The initial form of the bill was rejected by the Senate, which agreed to reconsider it. And so they did – the bill was essentially modified, its final form seeming more like an escape solution adopted by officials tired with this matter.
The law comes as a result of the increasing number of melanoma cases. The California Society of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, that supports the legislators, blames tanning salons for part of the ever increasing skin cancer cases.
Mr. Dan Humiston, The President of the Indoor Tanning Association has reportedly expressed in a statement the great disappointment of the whole indoor tanning industry in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s for signing this bill into law. The disapproval and disappointment of the industry professionals are not that justified, having in view that the final form of the new law barely affects their business. Far from generatig financial prejudices, the law just doesn't change very many things from this point of view either.
Parents, on the other hand, sustain that there is no way that the government should know better what their children need.
However, even not making dramatical changes, the law seems to be a measure of common sense and draws attention towards health hazards children are subject to, as exposure to UV is more dangerous for children and adolescents because of the high cell production rate combined with deleterious UV exposure increases the risk of cancer.
Although there are voices sustaining that a more active campaign explaining the noxious effects of UV exposure would have been more effective, it seems that it is more helpful to restrict health matters by law than leave them to the usually too self indulging individual.
I took this idea from the IB exam on Monday, one of the topics was about these and I consider it is grat the law of Arlond Schwarzenegger to control this specially for adolescents taht in Clifornnia they need the permission of their parents to assist to this methods of tanning. It is prooved that it is almost worts than the natural sun , so be careful! this is a message for us girls! I suppose that many of ur are thinking to assist to this places for our "Cena de agresados",,, that is why I post this new to let you know how bad is for your skin , we must try to avoid skin cancer and this is one method to stop this! Dpnt forget to use this summer solar protector and try to transmit this yo others! I must say I love sun and this is very difficult for me but I will try to change this stupid culture that if you are tosted you look more beatiful! I hope you like my post and comment on it.. now I will continue studing for history!
Monday, November 29 2004 at 14:03
September 24. The governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a bill stipulating that children under 14 are not allowed under any circumstances to use artificial tanning facilities. The fine for each violation is $2,500 per day. Teens between 14 and 18 need a signed parental consent form to go to a tanning salon.
Before this, the law was already restrictive in this respect: children under 14 had to be accompanied by parents to have access in tanning salons and youngsters between 14 and 18 needed parental consent.
The new law seems to have been adopted as a compromise solution, as it does not bring much improvement to the existing one. Initially, the bill was stipulating that the access of teens under 18 to tanning salons was permitted only under special circumstances, namely only with medical prescription. The initial form of the bill was rejected by the Senate, which agreed to reconsider it. And so they did – the bill was essentially modified, its final form seeming more like an escape solution adopted by officials tired with this matter.
The law comes as a result of the increasing number of melanoma cases. The California Society of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, that supports the legislators, blames tanning salons for part of the ever increasing skin cancer cases.
Mr. Dan Humiston, The President of the Indoor Tanning Association has reportedly expressed in a statement the great disappointment of the whole indoor tanning industry in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s for signing this bill into law. The disapproval and disappointment of the industry professionals are not that justified, having in view that the final form of the new law barely affects their business. Far from generatig financial prejudices, the law just doesn't change very many things from this point of view either.
Parents, on the other hand, sustain that there is no way that the government should know better what their children need.
However, even not making dramatical changes, the law seems to be a measure of common sense and draws attention towards health hazards children are subject to, as exposure to UV is more dangerous for children and adolescents because of the high cell production rate combined with deleterious UV exposure increases the risk of cancer.
Although there are voices sustaining that a more active campaign explaining the noxious effects of UV exposure would have been more effective, it seems that it is more helpful to restrict health matters by law than leave them to the usually too self indulging individual.
I took this idea from the IB exam on Monday, one of the topics was about these and I consider it is grat the law of Arlond Schwarzenegger to control this specially for adolescents taht in Clifornnia they need the permission of their parents to assist to this methods of tanning. It is prooved that it is almost worts than the natural sun , so be careful! this is a message for us girls! I suppose that many of ur are thinking to assist to this places for our "Cena de agresados",,, that is why I post this new to let you know how bad is for your skin , we must try to avoid skin cancer and this is one method to stop this! Dpnt forget to use this summer solar protector and try to transmit this yo others! I must say I love sun and this is very difficult for me but I will try to change this stupid culture that if you are tosted you look more beatiful! I hope you like my post and comment on it.. now I will continue studing for history!
Thursday, November 8, 2007
"EL TIO JOSE"
Hi!! Here is a photo of our ex goberment " el tio JOSE". This man was the one that put the law that we can only go out at night until 4am. In my opinion with Alperovich qe lived a totalitarism, and this will go on being like this because the one that ocuppate nowadays his position is his wife, " la tia BETY".
I would like you to live your opinion of what you think about this law!
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Day of the professor!
This day was brilliant. here it removes to a photo to the disguised professors from students… the best actress to them was jane! And Miriam made me laugh in the performance
martina bulacio
My dear sect.!
They are my friends… my better friends! With them shout, study, I fight myself, there I amuse and times that nor I hold them, but are everything for my I always have them. and now that this finishing the school I hope to always see them… and that this union is never finished
Girls this I dedicate them to you
Martu Bulacio
Girls this I dedicate them to you
Martu Bulacio
Both extreme they take us to the death
Both extreme they take us to the death
* The anorexy can be considered like a serious alteration of the habits and/or behaviors involved in the feeding. The people who suffer it dedicate to the greater part of their time to nourishing subjects and everything what she is related to it. The preoccupation by the food and the fear to gain weight forms the essential of this upheaval, along with the personal insecurity to face this problem. They deny the disease and fat people of their body in spite of presenting/displaying a skeletal aspect perceive themselves somewhere. The menstrual irregularity happens later and the amenorrhoea or the impotence in men
* It is a chronic disease originated by many causes and with numerous complications, the obesity is characterized by the excess of fat in the organism and it appears when the index of corporal mass in the adult is greater of 25 units.The obesity does not distinguish color of skin, age, socioeconomic level, sex or geographic situation.Previously it was considered to the person with overweight like a person who enjoyed good health, nevertheless now knows that the obesity has manifold consequences in our health.Now one knows that the obesity strongly is related as causal of other dermatological, gastrointestinales, diabetic diseases as they are it the cardiovascular sufferings, osteoarticulares, etc.
*-Here we can see two clear examples from how one can get to become ill psychologically and that really it takes them to the death …
We know that to them he surrounds many problems to them… and to leave that they look for one second option that is the confrontation with the body, with the food, then I think that when we are in seemed situations, as much thus he is with we ourself, our friends, near people or anyone, we request aid… because that is what it needs to him to all this people who this mentally becomes ill and that in aim it takes them death to his.
Martina Bulacio
Changes
I'm not suposed to be scared of anything, but I don't know whereI am
I wish that I could move but I'm exhausted and nobody understands(how I feel)
I'm trying hard to breathe now but there's no air in my lungs
There's no one here to talk to and the pain inside is making menumb
I try to hold this Under control
They can't help me
'Cause no one knows...
Now I'm going through changes, changes
God, I feel so frustrated lately
When I get suffacated, save me
Now I'm going through changes, changesI
'm feeling weak and weary walking through this world alone
Everything you say, every word of it, cuts me to the bone
I've got something to say, but now I've got no where to turn
It feel like I've been buried underneath the weight of the world
I try to hold this Under control
They can't help me
'Cause no one knows...
Now I'm going through changes, changes
God, I feel so frustrated lately
When I get suffacated, save me
Now I'm going through changes, changes
I'm running, shaking
Bound and breaking
I hope I make it through all these changes
Now I'm going through changes, changes
God, I feel so frustrated lately
When I get suffacated, save me
Now I'm falling apart, now I feel it
Now I'm going through changes, changes
God, I feel so frustrated lately
When I get suffacated, I hate this
But I'm going through changes, changes
Well this is a song by 3 Doors Down ,one of my favorites rock bands!
Well I wanted to share this song with you because many times I’ve felt identified with it and I guess you have all lived this sudden changes too.
It’s not that it cheers me up , because it’s a song that express the frustration and anger that this changes gives you, but it gives me the feeling that I’m not alone because it shows me that I’m not the only one who is suffering this or at least that someone else has felt all these too.
I don’t know… I just wanted to share it with you. I’d like you to comment about it.
When discrimination can happen?
Discrimination happens when someone is treated worse ('less favourably' in legal terms) than another person in the same situation. This leaflet deals with your rights if you are discriminated against because of your:
race;
colour;
nationality; or
national or ethnic origin.
Throughout this leaflet, we use the words 'race' and 'racial' to cover all of these things.
People may suffer discrimination in a number of situations. It can happen:
at work;
when buying or using goods and services;
when trying to buy or rent somewhere to live; or
at a school or college.
when dealing with the authorities (for example, the police).
The law protects you from many kinds of discrimination and gives you the right to take a claim to an employment tribunal or to a court if you think you have been unfairly treated.
There are two other Community Legal Service Direct leaflets which you may also find useful:
'Equal Opportunities', looks in more detail at the laws on discrimination because of your sex, and also at your rights if you are discriminated against because of your age, your religious beliefs or if you are lesbian or gay.
'Rights for Disabled People', which looks at dealing with discrimination if you have a disability.
You may find that you are discriminated against for more than one reason. If so, you may need to get advice about the best course for action. You can get advice from:
a trade union;
your local law centre;
a Citizens Advice Bureau; or
a solicitor.
Racial discrimination is not the same as racial abuse (being attacked, for example). Racial abuse is a crime, and if you have been a victim, you should report it to the police. See 'Racial harassment' for more about this.
As we all know discrimnation is everywhere and in different categories, even at our school we see differeces that can make you feel discrimiated!
I think this is a very important aspect to be trated since we are children, to accept other that are different from us. In the article above I posted some cases when discrimination appears, and the most common ones are beacuse of origin or religion.
I consider taht schools shoul talk about this eith their students to teach them the important value of accepting others!
Discrimination happens when someone is treated worse ('less favourably' in legal terms) than another person in the same situation. This leaflet deals with your rights if you are discriminated against because of your:
race;
colour;
nationality; or
national or ethnic origin.
Throughout this leaflet, we use the words 'race' and 'racial' to cover all of these things.
People may suffer discrimination in a number of situations. It can happen:
at work;
when buying or using goods and services;
when trying to buy or rent somewhere to live; or
at a school or college.
when dealing with the authorities (for example, the police).
The law protects you from many kinds of discrimination and gives you the right to take a claim to an employment tribunal or to a court if you think you have been unfairly treated.
There are two other Community Legal Service Direct leaflets which you may also find useful:
'Equal Opportunities', looks in more detail at the laws on discrimination because of your sex, and also at your rights if you are discriminated against because of your age, your religious beliefs or if you are lesbian or gay.
'Rights for Disabled People', which looks at dealing with discrimination if you have a disability.
You may find that you are discriminated against for more than one reason. If so, you may need to get advice about the best course for action. You can get advice from:
a trade union;
your local law centre;
a Citizens Advice Bureau; or
a solicitor.
Racial discrimination is not the same as racial abuse (being attacked, for example). Racial abuse is a crime, and if you have been a victim, you should report it to the police. See 'Racial harassment' for more about this.
As we all know discrimnation is everywhere and in different categories, even at our school we see differeces that can make you feel discrimiated!
I think this is a very important aspect to be trated since we are children, to accept other that are different from us. In the article above I posted some cases when discrimination appears, and the most common ones are beacuse of origin or religion.
I consider taht schools shoul talk about this eith their students to teach them the important value of accepting others!
Live 8
Musical Cry to Help Africa's Poor Is Heard Around Globe
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By SARAH LYALL
Published: July 3, 2005
LONDON, July 2 - Hundreds of thousands of people gathered here and in nine other spots around the world on Saturday for a series of free concerts meant to persuade world leaders to give more money to fight poverty in Africa.
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Bono joined Paul McCartney for a rousing performance of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." More Photos >
Live 8 Around the World
Live 8 Concert Sites
On Britain's Main Stage, a Mix of Hoping and Moping (July 3, 2005)
An Afternoon Like America, Cognitive Dissonance and All (July 3, 2005)
Celebrities' Embrace of Africa Has Critics (July 1, 2005)
Live 8 Website
Streaming Video (aol.com)
Live 8 Blogs (technorati.com)
Forum: Popular Music
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Zola, a South African singer, yesterday in Johannesburg at one of the live performances around the world calling for efforts to end poverty. More Photos >
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The singer Bjork performed at the Live 8 concert in Japan. More Photos >
The concerts, held in South Africa as well as in each of the eight countries whose leaders will gather at the Group of 8 summit meeting in Scotland starting on Wednesday, were a triumph of logistical flexibility, extravagant idealism and strange juxtapositions.
In London, the preternaturally scruffy Sir Bob Geldof, the former Boomtown Rat and the events organizer, performed an old favorite, "I Don't Like Mondays," while the clean-cut billionaire Bill Gates told the cheering crowd that "some day in the future, all the people in the world will be able to lead a healthy life."
Conceived only in May and organized in haste, with additions popping up at the last minute - concerts in Moscow and Japan were announced just a few days ago - the Live 8 shows were intended to send a loud message to the leaders of the eight countries before their meeting.
In Philadelphia, an estimated 1.5 million people heard the rapper and actor Will Smith relay the sobering statistic that in Africa, one child dies every three seconds. In Johannesburg some 40,000 people gathered to listen to the music and to denounce the selfishness of the world's richest countries.
"They owe us," said the South African pop star Zola, speaking of Europe. "They are the ones who brought slavery, killed our ancestors. If anybody must pay, they must pay us back so that we can have jobs and education."
Elsewhere, some of the stars seemed unsure of the statistics they were citing - in London, performers could not agree whether 50,000 Africans die of poverty every day, or just 20,000 - but the sentiment was there. "This is our moment; this is our time; this is our chance to stand up for what's right," Bono of U2 told the crowd in Hyde Park, saying 3,000 Africans die every day of bites from disease-carrying mosquitoes.
U2 led off the concert here, playing "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" along with one of its composers, Sir Paul McCartney. The familiar opening line - "It was 20 years ago today" - was an affectionate reference to Live Aid, the multiact extravaganza staged in 1985, also by Sir Bob, to raise money directly for African famine relief.
Expectations for Live 8 were high, as was on-the-scene euphoria. Chris Martin, the charismatic frontman of Coldplay, which performed in London, called the concerts "the greatest thing that's ever been organized, probably, in the history of the world."
According to Sir Bob, who sweet-talked, strong-armed and shamed politicians and musicians into endorsing and taking part in the 10 concerts, the collective gatherings constituted "the largest mandate for action in history."
Among his "demands" were that the Group of 8 leaders increase aid to Africa by $25 billion, as well as send an additional $25 billion to impoverished non-African countries.
The concerts included more than 200 musical acts scheduled to play more than 69 hours of music. Organizers said 5.5 billion people would be able to watch or listen on the Internet and over 182 television stations and 2,000 radio networks and stations.
Enormous crowds turned out for the concerts in London and in Philadelphia, where a diverse and mellow crowd withstood 85-degree heat to listen to bands including Destiny's Child and the Black-Eyed Peas. But some of the other concerts - held in Barrie, Canada; Berlin; Johannesburg; the Eden Project, an ecological theme park in Cornwall, southwestern England; Moscow; Versailles, France; Philadelphia; Rome; and Chiba, Japan - proved not as well-attended as expected.
The concert in Japan drew just 10,000 spectators, in a stadium that holds twice that many. At the Circus Maximus in Rome, the crowd was estimated at about 200,000, and enthusiasm was high. "I wanted to raise their awareness about issues like canceling the debt," Isabella Dandina, a 40-year-old housewife, said of her three teenage children. She said she thought the initiative would jolt the Group of 8 leaders into action. "We're all voters, if you want to put it in blackmail terms," she said.
The mood was festive at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, too. "I can feel a sense of community among all the people," said 31-year-old Peter Gabriel, a computer engineer, "and many of the band leaders actually seem very convincing in what they say."
Many Africans were not aware that concerts were being held on their behalf. "I hope it's going to help us Africans," said Jane Waisaka, a hairdresser in Nairobi, "but I really don't know how."
Sir Bob has certainly been doing his best to prod politicians into paying attention, publicly berating Italy and Canada, saying they do not spend enough money on foreign aid.
The call was taken up at the concert in Barrie, a town about an hour north of Toronto, where the Canadian musician Tom Cochrane said onstage that foreign aid should represent 0.7 percent of the country's gross domestic product.
But a poll published Saturday said most Canadians agreed with their prime minister, Paul Martin, that spending should be kept in check so as to preserve the country's budget surplus.
"I'm sure Bob Geldof means well," the commentator Connie Woodcock wrote recently in the Toronto Sun, "but where does this second-string musician get off telling Paul Martin he doesn't like our foreign aid spending?"
I posted this new taha appeared iin the New York Times, because I consider this concerts that took place simultaniusly among July 2005 to fight against poor people specially from Africa. Many famous singers helped and participated to make this possible and it was really and exit that shocked the hole world. This is a demostration that there are still people who eant to cooperate and help those who need more tha us!
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By SARAH LYALL
Published: July 3, 2005
LONDON, July 2 - Hundreds of thousands of people gathered here and in nine other spots around the world on Saturday for a series of free concerts meant to persuade world leaders to give more money to fight poverty in Africa.
Skip to next paragraph
Enlarge This Image
Stephen Hird/Reuters
Bono joined Paul McCartney for a rousing performance of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." More Photos >
Live 8 Around the World
Live 8 Concert Sites
On Britain's Main Stage, a Mix of Hoping and Moping (July 3, 2005)
An Afternoon Like America, Cognitive Dissonance and All (July 3, 2005)
Celebrities' Embrace of Africa Has Critics (July 1, 2005)
Live 8 Website
Streaming Video (aol.com)
Live 8 Blogs (technorati.com)
Forum: Popular Music
Enlarge This Image
Kim Ludbrook/European Pressphoto Agency
Zola, a South African singer, yesterday in Johannesburg at one of the live performances around the world calling for efforts to end poverty. More Photos >
Enlarge This Image
Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images
The singer Bjork performed at the Live 8 concert in Japan. More Photos >
The concerts, held in South Africa as well as in each of the eight countries whose leaders will gather at the Group of 8 summit meeting in Scotland starting on Wednesday, were a triumph of logistical flexibility, extravagant idealism and strange juxtapositions.
In London, the preternaturally scruffy Sir Bob Geldof, the former Boomtown Rat and the events organizer, performed an old favorite, "I Don't Like Mondays," while the clean-cut billionaire Bill Gates told the cheering crowd that "some day in the future, all the people in the world will be able to lead a healthy life."
Conceived only in May and organized in haste, with additions popping up at the last minute - concerts in Moscow and Japan were announced just a few days ago - the Live 8 shows were intended to send a loud message to the leaders of the eight countries before their meeting.
In Philadelphia, an estimated 1.5 million people heard the rapper and actor Will Smith relay the sobering statistic that in Africa, one child dies every three seconds. In Johannesburg some 40,000 people gathered to listen to the music and to denounce the selfishness of the world's richest countries.
"They owe us," said the South African pop star Zola, speaking of Europe. "They are the ones who brought slavery, killed our ancestors. If anybody must pay, they must pay us back so that we can have jobs and education."
Elsewhere, some of the stars seemed unsure of the statistics they were citing - in London, performers could not agree whether 50,000 Africans die of poverty every day, or just 20,000 - but the sentiment was there. "This is our moment; this is our time; this is our chance to stand up for what's right," Bono of U2 told the crowd in Hyde Park, saying 3,000 Africans die every day of bites from disease-carrying mosquitoes.
U2 led off the concert here, playing "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" along with one of its composers, Sir Paul McCartney. The familiar opening line - "It was 20 years ago today" - was an affectionate reference to Live Aid, the multiact extravaganza staged in 1985, also by Sir Bob, to raise money directly for African famine relief.
Expectations for Live 8 were high, as was on-the-scene euphoria. Chris Martin, the charismatic frontman of Coldplay, which performed in London, called the concerts "the greatest thing that's ever been organized, probably, in the history of the world."
According to Sir Bob, who sweet-talked, strong-armed and shamed politicians and musicians into endorsing and taking part in the 10 concerts, the collective gatherings constituted "the largest mandate for action in history."
Among his "demands" were that the Group of 8 leaders increase aid to Africa by $25 billion, as well as send an additional $25 billion to impoverished non-African countries.
The concerts included more than 200 musical acts scheduled to play more than 69 hours of music. Organizers said 5.5 billion people would be able to watch or listen on the Internet and over 182 television stations and 2,000 radio networks and stations.
Enormous crowds turned out for the concerts in London and in Philadelphia, where a diverse and mellow crowd withstood 85-degree heat to listen to bands including Destiny's Child and the Black-Eyed Peas. But some of the other concerts - held in Barrie, Canada; Berlin; Johannesburg; the Eden Project, an ecological theme park in Cornwall, southwestern England; Moscow; Versailles, France; Philadelphia; Rome; and Chiba, Japan - proved not as well-attended as expected.
The concert in Japan drew just 10,000 spectators, in a stadium that holds twice that many. At the Circus Maximus in Rome, the crowd was estimated at about 200,000, and enthusiasm was high. "I wanted to raise their awareness about issues like canceling the debt," Isabella Dandina, a 40-year-old housewife, said of her three teenage children. She said she thought the initiative would jolt the Group of 8 leaders into action. "We're all voters, if you want to put it in blackmail terms," she said.
The mood was festive at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, too. "I can feel a sense of community among all the people," said 31-year-old Peter Gabriel, a computer engineer, "and many of the band leaders actually seem very convincing in what they say."
Many Africans were not aware that concerts were being held on their behalf. "I hope it's going to help us Africans," said Jane Waisaka, a hairdresser in Nairobi, "but I really don't know how."
Sir Bob has certainly been doing his best to prod politicians into paying attention, publicly berating Italy and Canada, saying they do not spend enough money on foreign aid.
The call was taken up at the concert in Barrie, a town about an hour north of Toronto, where the Canadian musician Tom Cochrane said onstage that foreign aid should represent 0.7 percent of the country's gross domestic product.
But a poll published Saturday said most Canadians agreed with their prime minister, Paul Martin, that spending should be kept in check so as to preserve the country's budget surplus.
"I'm sure Bob Geldof means well," the commentator Connie Woodcock wrote recently in the Toronto Sun, "but where does this second-string musician get off telling Paul Martin he doesn't like our foreign aid spending?"
I posted this new taha appeared iin the New York Times, because I consider this concerts that took place simultaniusly among July 2005 to fight against poor people specially from Africa. Many famous singers helped and participated to make this possible and it was really and exit that shocked the hole world. This is a demostration that there are still people who eant to cooperate and help those who need more tha us!
Monday, November 5, 2007
Self defence... jaja
just for you to laught a little bit! it's in English de video, buy you can understand perfectly well you know!... I hope you like it! I really laught a lot!
Y don't know how to upload the video inside the entry, buy anyway! I hope you like it! it's verry funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2REG3-Wb5gM
Y don't know how to upload the video inside the entry, buy anyway! I hope you like it! it's verry funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2REG3-Wb5gM
Corruption in Argentinian Election 28-10-2007
Here I found an international video about Corruption in the election of october
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCsCNHDSUPI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCsCNHDSUPI
Why do people dream??
No one actually knows why people dream. Doctors have theories though. One theory that doctors have is: When you are at school, home, or somewhere, there are so many things that are going on that you don't think about during the day, night, etc. When you sleep, in other words dream, you think about all of the things that have happened. Also, during the day or night, if you are worried or upset, or feeling something about someone, something, etc., it all comes out. You think/ dream about it when asleep.
When people ask doctors and/or scientists," Does everyone dream?" Scientists and/or doctors say no. Some say that they are not sure. Some people don't dream. They can skip the 1st stage of sleep: REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. Scientists and/or doctors don't really know why some people can do this. But they can.
When people ask doctors and/or scientists," Does everyone dream?" Scientists and/or doctors say no. Some say that they are not sure. Some people don't dream. They can skip the 1st stage of sleep: REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. Scientists and/or doctors don't really know why some people can do this. But they can.
St. Patrick's Musical..... a great success!
"St. Patricks School Musical", was based on the musical film High School Musical, presented on the 2nd and the 3rd of November at the primary school. It was an awsome success, after the play, the little kids ask for authographes to the main characters of the play.
Here, at the picture, all the "Status Quo Dancers", with people from 9th form, 1st, 2nd,and 3rd polimodal. We all have enojey it very very much, and because of the hudge success, authorities are thinking of repeting the play on the 16th of the same month.
CENCERT !!
ONE OF MY BEST MEMORIES I REMEMBER FROM THE PRIMARY SCHOOL IS THE CONCERT!! WE SPEND MANY HOURS PRACTIZING OUR DANCE AND SONG AND AT THE END OF THE YEAR WE SHOW WHAT WE HAVE BEEN PREPARING
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Campaign Against Anorexia
Watch the video and comment on the importance of raising consciousness among teens concerning this illness
http://www.materna.com.ar/Home/HomeMaterna.asp?idcapituloselect=2286&v=8i6za79ztcw
http://www.materna.com.ar/Home/HomeMaterna.asp?idcapituloselect=2286&v=8i6za79ztcw
"brave new world" critic
I'm reading the last pages of this book... this grat book. I haven't finished, but al the same I read the finishing, I have that custom... since I was a child jajaja.
But it's not about what I think towards the book what I'me going to talk, but about it's content. The Controller is talking to bernard, watson and john, about this brave new world, the way it became to be that way, and explaining the hole story itself. But it's not about this speccialy what I want to talk about. The controller talks about God, "Ford" and conditioning. I think once the controller is talking, the author is talking to as trought this character. John doesn't understand why God is not named, and the controller says that anyway, people wouldn't understand the Bible. Is like, people is conditioned to think in some way.
The author is critizing religions. He wants to convince us, trought his story, that the world we live, doesn't allow us to think in a propper way. That catolisism makes us closed people, who can not think alone, but the whay the Curch wants.
The same way of thinking had, and still have, many totalitarian people, specially comunism. They are trouly convince that religion is something made up by people just to convince themself that there is something after life.
Well, I just wanted to talk a little bit about this, and I hope you can comment and write what you think.
But it's not about what I think towards the book what I'me going to talk, but about it's content. The Controller is talking to bernard, watson and john, about this brave new world, the way it became to be that way, and explaining the hole story itself. But it's not about this speccialy what I want to talk about. The controller talks about God, "Ford" and conditioning. I think once the controller is talking, the author is talking to as trought this character. John doesn't understand why God is not named, and the controller says that anyway, people wouldn't understand the Bible. Is like, people is conditioned to think in some way.
The author is critizing religions. He wants to convince us, trought his story, that the world we live, doesn't allow us to think in a propper way. That catolisism makes us closed people, who can not think alone, but the whay the Curch wants.
The same way of thinking had, and still have, many totalitarian people, specially comunism. They are trouly convince that religion is something made up by people just to convince themself that there is something after life.
Well, I just wanted to talk a little bit about this, and I hope you can comment and write what you think.
Friday, November 2, 2007
why do.. Dogs wag their tails?
The quick answer is that a dog wags its tail for a reason which seems self-evident enough, that being it's the tell-tale mark of a friendly dog. Indeed, anyone who's stood too near the pounding tail of a prototypical friendly breed such as a labrador retriever, can take a veritable shellacking from the wack of its wiggle. But if friendliness were an altogether accurate interpretation, why is it that so many people are bitten by a dog that's wagging its tail, often very enthusiastically? For this and other reasons, the science of behaviorism has called into question the popular wisdom that dogs wag their tails out of friendliness. The definition that the science of behaviorism prefers is that a dog is wagging its tail as a submissive overture to a superior member of its pack. For example, if one observes an inferior wolf approaching a superior one, tail-wagging is a pronounced feature of his body language.
But this isn't a wholly satisfying either because when adult wolves regurgitate food to their cubs, the cubs' tails are wagging and so are the adults. Are the adults being submissive to the cubs and the cubs to the adults all at the same time? That seems like a confusing scrambling of signals and it's my experience that the nature of behavior is never that ambiguous. The recurring theme of this newsletter will be to make the point that submission and dominance while expedient, convenient, and seemingly reasonable means of making sense of canine behavior, can¹t really accomodate the data. For if a dog is showing submission to a human out of respect, why then would he bite such a person? Such paradoxes plainly call into question the traditional scientific interpretation.
A thinker on dogs who I respect quite a bit, although I will hope to show ultimately that he doesn¹t go far enough in placing his observations into the proper context, is Desmond Morris. We will be referring to his work often in these pages and for our current purposes I call on his book "Dogwatching" wherein he writes at length on the phenomenom of tail-wagging. He states: "The only emotional condition that all tail-waggers share is a state of conflict. This is true of almost all back-and-forth movements in animal communication. When an animal is in conflict it feels pulled in two different directions at the same time. It wants to advance and retreat simultaneously. Since each urge cancels the other out, the animal stays where it is, but in a state of conflict. Essentially the animal wants to stay and wants to go away. The urge to go away is simple--it is caused by fear. The urge to stay is more complex."
Attraction in conflict with fear, this is why dogs wag their tails and it's an interpretation that perhaps is quite surprising to many. It also needs further elaboration, for example, if we consider a dog who we can be sure isn't ever going to bite anyone but who nonetheless is wagging his tail, what possible fear might there be for this dog in a situation where it's only about to be petted, or fed, or any other number of pleasureable experiences?
The full answer to that question will be covered in an upcoming article entitled, "The Nature Of Fear". Desmond Morris' assertion that the the urge to go away from fear is simple, is mistaken. Fear is a little more complex than he has presumed. But putting that dynamic aside for the moment, for now I would simply like to elaborate on Desmond Morris' insight by going a step deeper into the phenomenom of the friendly dog wagging his tail.
Tail wagging is indeed a state of conflict. But the conflict is arising from the following condition, it is the state of the body vibrating with more energy than the body at that moment is able to conduct given whatever action is currently available to it. In other words, there is more energy trying to go through the pipe, the dog's body, then the pipe can accomodate. Wagging the tail is the body's physiological response for dissipating the excess energy. It would feel better to the dog if the body could process the energy in a straightforward active range of behaviors, for example making hearty physical contact, but for a number of reasons which we'll discuss when we consider the nature of fear, it can't. Hence the state of conflict.
But this isn't a wholly satisfying either because when adult wolves regurgitate food to their cubs, the cubs' tails are wagging and so are the adults. Are the adults being submissive to the cubs and the cubs to the adults all at the same time? That seems like a confusing scrambling of signals and it's my experience that the nature of behavior is never that ambiguous. The recurring theme of this newsletter will be to make the point that submission and dominance while expedient, convenient, and seemingly reasonable means of making sense of canine behavior, can¹t really accomodate the data. For if a dog is showing submission to a human out of respect, why then would he bite such a person? Such paradoxes plainly call into question the traditional scientific interpretation.
A thinker on dogs who I respect quite a bit, although I will hope to show ultimately that he doesn¹t go far enough in placing his observations into the proper context, is Desmond Morris. We will be referring to his work often in these pages and for our current purposes I call on his book "Dogwatching" wherein he writes at length on the phenomenom of tail-wagging. He states: "The only emotional condition that all tail-waggers share is a state of conflict. This is true of almost all back-and-forth movements in animal communication. When an animal is in conflict it feels pulled in two different directions at the same time. It wants to advance and retreat simultaneously. Since each urge cancels the other out, the animal stays where it is, but in a state of conflict. Essentially the animal wants to stay and wants to go away. The urge to go away is simple--it is caused by fear. The urge to stay is more complex."
Attraction in conflict with fear, this is why dogs wag their tails and it's an interpretation that perhaps is quite surprising to many. It also needs further elaboration, for example, if we consider a dog who we can be sure isn't ever going to bite anyone but who nonetheless is wagging his tail, what possible fear might there be for this dog in a situation where it's only about to be petted, or fed, or any other number of pleasureable experiences?
The full answer to that question will be covered in an upcoming article entitled, "The Nature Of Fear". Desmond Morris' assertion that the the urge to go away from fear is simple, is mistaken. Fear is a little more complex than he has presumed. But putting that dynamic aside for the moment, for now I would simply like to elaborate on Desmond Morris' insight by going a step deeper into the phenomenom of the friendly dog wagging his tail.
Tail wagging is indeed a state of conflict. But the conflict is arising from the following condition, it is the state of the body vibrating with more energy than the body at that moment is able to conduct given whatever action is currently available to it. In other words, there is more energy trying to go through the pipe, the dog's body, then the pipe can accomodate. Wagging the tail is the body's physiological response for dissipating the excess energy. It would feel better to the dog if the body could process the energy in a straightforward active range of behaviors, for example making hearty physical contact, but for a number of reasons which we'll discuss when we consider the nature of fear, it can't. Hence the state of conflict.
Nick Vujicic
I want to share this three videos, so we can learn from this beautiful message .this is the story of Nick vuijicic, he is a young man who was born with no arms and no legs , in Melbourne , Australia. In spite of his "disability" he has become an inspiration for people all over the world,his message is that it doesn't matter what happens to us, what problems we have , or how bad we hurt,we should never bring ourselves down,and whenever we fail we just have to get up and try again.
Here are the videos his English is very understandable, I hope you can learn something...
Here are the videos his English is very understandable, I hope you can learn something...
BARILOCHE
On the 29 of june we made our last trip with the school. First we arrive the 31 in San Martin de los Andes where we stay 5 days. The first day we went on a city tour , the next 3 days we went to ski in Chapelco and the fifth day we go to bariloche. There we spent 3 days and 2 nights. it was a incredible trip that a will never forget.In this picture we (agostina-emilita-lucia) are in our second and last night in Bariloche, in Nahuel Hue. Luz and i seem to be sad because we were leaving the next day to Tucuman, but Lucia happy because that night we were going to By pass jaja... i really enjoy that trip a lot.That day we play a lot, there was a lot of snow and it was to cold.
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