tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14231466162171526572011-09-15T13:50:42.757+01:00la intención de éste blog es que sea el foro (bilingüe ?) de nuestro curso de español en el año 2010. Queremos que todos hagan algunas sugerencias, reportajes, preguntas y comentarios cada semana. Further to the language angle, this experimental blog also highlights occasional news and views items. Some comments are translations. You are invited to sign on to follow this blog, whether out of curiosity or as a contributor, at the «acceder» link [below right].Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.comBlogger1121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-3541793815983814542010-12-18T13:54:00.000Z2010-12-18T13:54:34.248Z

http://www.foe.co.uk/cards/dec17-5944529121-17216164.html

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Andrew Judson, UK: I guess Andrew is the best business advisor I've met. Tel.44 1497 821 225 (from UK 01497 821 225)with track record in EU + Cyprus + Egypt re property, marketing, and sales training. Based in Hay-on-Wye near the City of Hereford.

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Great use of www . . . see friend's Site.

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El Pais 12 09 Debemos hacer frente ya a la crisis laboral. La crisis financiera mundial ha acarreado muchos costes para la economía mundial, ninguno más penoso que el impacto en las decenas de millones de trabajadores que quedaron sin empleo. Alrededor de 210 millones de personas se encuentran en esa situación . . .

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I liked Club Med 1 also ! + Agadir, + La Martinique, + Cefalu, + Arziv, + Djerba, + Guadaloupe, + Acapulco, + Isla de Mujeres, + Tahiti, + Ouarzazate, ++++ ! [link to Club Med 2 Ship] + Takitimu, + Moustique . . . .

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Re DS (I have DS21). Flickr is delveloping well, I'm only now starting to learn potential . . . pic = 1000 words ?

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DS4 ? For the moment though, we still like the DS3 better but who knows - Paris might change all that . . .

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Me gusta mucho LoMas ! Muy bien para nosotros, los estudiantes, very nice intelligent and fun, and always presenting new angles, new music, new refranes . . . LoMas TV - interesante ? Si.

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New to me . . . but very interesting travel blogs, eg the Smiths Family "Our trip of a lifetime to New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong"

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See: "Our Mini Moke" click on . . also: www.qbh

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bombshell Diana Dors' $6m Delahaye Classic Car ! NB «de La Haye» in old French means: " from Hay-on-Wye" (which was a Norman French town). . . > Google Hay-on-Wye.

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Citroen DS3 Ecomedy Tour arrived at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival – with over a third of a tank of fuel to spare. . .

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish

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"You can marry your MP, you can have sex with your MP, you can pay tax with your MP, but you can't vote for your MP". It's about time this injustice was stopped, give 16 year olds the vote. They can die for this country but they can't vote for it, they can pay tax for this country, but they can't vote for it. At the age of 16, we can legally leave school, work full time and pay taxes, leave home

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“Let me introduce myself: my name is Mog Edwards. Not Mog short for Michael, Mickey or Margaret for that matter. Just Mog. (My mother liked cats). And my father had a sense of humour. Some of you may know me from the works of my friend Dylan. He was a poet and a lover, and we met many years ago in my home-village. He visited one day and forgot to get back on the bus. Having decided that he was

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The Jet Stream is identified as winds at 300mb (during Winter) and 200mb (during Summer). It is these winds which are responsible for driving and developing weather systems across the Atlantic. You can use the maps below to see not just how intense the Jet Stream is, but also whether the weather systems underneath them are likely to intensify or not.

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With all the worries of the present day . . . I guess there is a growing sense of nostalgia for that mythical Golden Age (but which one ?). . so I looked up Wikipedia RETRO ! Click preceeding link to see Wiki page, which we might expand ?

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See from space ? I do at 06.00 GMT each day: . . .

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. . . Total Solar Eclipse across South Pacific . . . 1000s scientists gathered on Easter Island to see . . . eclipse started 18.15 GMT, 400 miles south of Tonga . . . reached Easter Island 20.11 hrs GMT . . . population of Easter Island Unesco World Heritage site doubled to 8000 for Eclipse 2010. Sure see BBC video.

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I miss Agadir so much, also Hayling Island, and Cornwall . . but look at > Ireland >

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John Prescott, Baron Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a Welsh[1] former Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State of the United Kingdom. He represented Hull East as the Labour Member of Parliament between 1970 and 2010. In the 1994 leadership election he campaigned for both Leader and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, winning election to the latter office. He was appointed Deputy Prime

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bmgc-members: View Photo: cymdu clouds 050 adjusted

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. . . le jour où la radio a croisé l’Histoire. De la résistance à la liberté… toutes les antennes de Radio France reviendront sur . . . la mémoire collective : arme de résistance, outil de combat politique, vecteur d’informations majeur dans les situations d’urgence…

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History of Hay-on-Wye, today, at U3A Hay, plus fine film (Peter Florence presentation) re Black Mountains, Wales, Craswell. [Bulls Head: must go back - it's now so good - returned to "how a pub should be" feel].

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Sartorial Streets of NYC & London

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Sea Turtle Finds Lost Camera, Films Itself Swimming, Paul Schultz finds camera + finds owner, from Aruba, 1000 km away ? Youtube HERE, and Scuba report HERE.

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Mira ! ): por aqui . . . : : : 2010 Hay Festival >>> Fotos . . . (Yo tengo 300 mas).

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The Solenodon, which is only found in the Dominican Republic and in one of the last forested patches of Haiti, is often described as a "living fossil", . . . . it has been around, unchanged, for the past 76 million years. Remarkably, this means it would have scuttled between the giant feet of the dinosaurs, when they roamed the Earth. Continue reading the main story in Spanish: BBC MUNDO, and

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Blogger Buzz: Blogger integrates with Amazon Associates Click HERE for full info.

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Buena Vista Social Club . . . at our Hay Festival last night . . . what a night ! Wish they could stay all week. I've some great photos: very fine and powerful performance with fabulous audience interaction, spectacular lighting, and Sky Arts TV filming that we'll see today ! [Wikepedia info link]. And invite Buena Vista Social Club to your city, town, or country ! + Sky TV link. Youtube latest

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The Minimum Boat (new book): this quirky compilation brings together many of nautical thriller writer Sam Llewellyn's articles for Practical Boat Owner magazine (read by 200,000 a month). Owner of a traditional Drascombe Lugger, Llewellyn is an advocate of keeping sailing simple, and in this wonderful collection of nautical observations he promotes the minimalist boating lifestyle whilst poking

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La tormenta Agatha en Centroamérica . . . hay muertos en Guatemala y en El Salvador como consecuencia de las lluvias producidas por la tormenta tropical Agatha, la primera de la temporada. Cientos de personas ya han sido evacuadas en previsión de que se produzcan inundaciones. En Guatemala, los efectos devastadores de la tormenta se unen a los que desde el jueves está teniendo la erupción del

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See G Reader + try it.

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Who is Synthia? What is she? The 99.999 per cent of us who are not brilliant geneticists are . . . following yesterday’s announcement that the controversial genius Dr Craig Venter has produced the first synthetic life-form. The answer is that, despite some of the wilder hype, Dr Venter has not created life itself, but a new man-made species. . . . .

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TV Brasil inaugura Canal Internacional que inicia transmissões para África. A TV Brasil deu início nesta segunda-feira (24/05) às transmissões de seu canal internacional em solenidade no Palácio do Itamaraty, que contou com a participação do Presidente Lula, de ministros de Estado e membros do corpo diplomático. O canal internacional tem sinal disponível para 49 dos 53 países da África. 0

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Les Champs-Elysées sont fermés à la circulation, et se métamorphoseront en paysage agricole et champêtre. Durant deux jours, la plus belle avenue du monde se mettra au vert et offrira une plongée au sein de la diversité des productions agricoles et forestières françaises. The Champs-Elysées ('Elysian Fields') is the thoroughfare that cuts through the heart of Paris and links one end of the city

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Titan Robot at the Royal Welsh Showground last Sunday was the greatest show «crowd puller» + «crowd pleaser» and «crown astonisher» that I have ever seen . . . anywhere . . . not in Europe, not is USA . . . . . DRAMATIC. We were all (1000's) spellbound. http://www.google.com/search?client=gmail&rls=gm&q=Titan%20robot

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Excellent weather forecast website for EU . . . clear graphics . . . info at a glance . . . everyone seems to say that it's the most accurate available at the present time; recommended by the friendly team at the Erwood Inn, Builth, LD2 3EZ, UK.

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5:01am UK, Saturday May 15, 2010 Aussie Teenager Completes Solo World Sail . . . David Williams, Sky News Online 16 year old Jessica Watson has a good official website and Google has a wealth of updates on this circumnavigation. Her sponsors, Ella Bache, seem to have done a fine job, especially spicey graphic design, "Pink Lady" !

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Boris Johnson: making London Ping Pong Central ! The Mayor of London, will turn the tables on China this summer by opening up the capital to one of Britain’s “lost” sports. Johnson, himself a master of spin and splice, teased the Chinese two years ago, when he was in Beijing to become the standard bearer for the 2012 London Olympics, by questioning the birthright of table tennis. He insisted the

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Notable BLACK SEA OF CONCRETE exhibition. Photos by Rafal Milach. Rafal has created a photo-collective, Sputnik Photos, together with 10 other Central Eastern European photographers, to document, promote, and spread knowledge on «transition-time» issues in CEE countries.

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Volcanic Ash Update: the latest information from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano states that the plume is rising to between 3 and 5 km into the atmosphere. Scattered cloud obscures the peak of the volcano, but the plume is again spreading in a southeastwards direction, away from Iceland, towards the UK. Issued at 1653 on Sat 01 May 2010. MET OFFICE EXETER. I always like to double-check what our Met

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Annie Lennox is the most successful female recording artist ever to come out of the UK. But she's never fitted the pop star stereotype . . . hear Annie in last night's HARDTALK (BBC World Service Radio), and see BBC video. Annie's website is one of the best (click first bold link above).

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BEIJING--The 2010 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition that opens to the public on Tuesday will feature nearly 1,000 vehicles, about 10 percent of which are in the eco-friendly class. 2010（第十一届）北京国际汽车展览会新闻发布稿 以“畅想绿色未来”为主题的2010（第十一届）北京国际汽车展览会（Auto China 2010）将于2010年4月25日—5月2日在北京中国国际展览中心隆重举行。..[详细] [展会新闻] 福田欧马可C 280车展全球上市 售10-20万 [2010-4-24] [展会新闻] 世爵第二代超级跑车C8 Aileron亚太首发 [2010-4-24] [

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China: national day of mourning for the Yushu earthquake victims . . . and storms now sweep the stricken region, hitting aid supplies as the death toll reaches 2,064

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This happened before in the Bronze Age, and when Turner painted those sunsets; volcanic global chaos continues ? . . . and another little-ice-age next ? See epic movie « The Day After Tomorrow ».

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Reino Unido pide ayuda a España para sus viajeros . . .

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Sad crowds gathered in Krakow yesterday for the funeral of President Lech Kaczynski. Referring to the recent improvement in relations between Russia and Poland . . . the cardinal welcomed President Dimitry Medvedev who was attending the service, and hoped the tragedy could be a force for “rapprochement and reconciliation". Medvedev told reporters at St Mary’s Basilica: “The tragedy that occurred

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Always useful URL, but especially now, when our friends from Europe and USA cannot visit our ash-clouded part of the planet: Sat24

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Meteo Galicia: Europa - Atlantico . . . mira !

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Final weeks update: Owing to exceptional demand, queues of over 3 hours are currently occurring. On busy days, queuing closes from mid-afternoon onwards to ensure that people do not queue without a chance of getting into this RA VAN GOGH Exhibition. Advance tickets via the RA website have now sold out. But «RA Friends» go free. Avoid queues by becoming a Friend of the RA, and enjoy unlimited

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Just listen to lovely Harriett Gilbert (and readers) talking to French Nobel Laureate J M G Le Clezio about his dazzling bestseller «Desert» *. The early twentieth century journeyings of a young Tuareg, and his threatened family, are hauntingly interwoven with those of the symbolic desert orphan, Lalla . . . contrasting the wonders of this part-lost African culture with the traumas of unwanted

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Mira ! See here: http://en-gb.www.mozilla.com/en-GB/firefox/3.5.9/whatsnew/

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Microsoft founders have been leading tributes to Dr Henry Edward Roberts who was the inventor of the Altair 8800, a machine that sparked our home computer era. Bill Gates contacted Dr Roberts after seeing the machine on the front cover of a magazine and offered to write software for it !

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El acelerador LHC (CERN), a punto de iniciar la fase de los primeros descubrimientos ! . . . se inyectaron por primera vez los dos haces de protones (circulando a casi la velocidad de la luz en sentido opuesto) a una energía de 3,5 teraelectronvoltios (TeV) por haz.

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-64099738983961284972010-03-24T23:50:00.001Z2010-03-25T00:01:05.253Z

BEIJING, 24.03.10 — China is a nation that builds dams, high-speed rail lines and skyscrapers with abandon. In newly muscular China, sheer force is not just an art, but a bedrock principle . . . Now China has tightened its grip on the variegated world of online information, forcing Google, the world’s premier information provider, to choose between submitting to censorship and leaving the world

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. . . experiments show that vision can be improved by manipulating mind-sets. . . participants were primed with the mind-set that pilots have excellent vision. Vision improved for participants who experientially became pilots (by flying a realistic flight simulator) compared with control participants (who performed the same task in an ostensibly broken flight simulator).

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Reforma de la salud ! Domingo, la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos otorgó su aprobación a un proyecto de ley que reforma el sistema de salud. Al conseguir la aprobación de la ley, el presidente estadounidense Barack Obama avanza en el cumplimiento de una de las grandes prioridades de su mandato: darle cobertura de salud a unos 32 millones de estadounidenses que actualmente no están

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Gracias amigo por tu «Power to the People», BBC2 TV tonight ! + Mira la página El País aqui.

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Deep conversations make people happier than small talk . . . Would you be happier if you spent more time discussing the state of the world and the meaning of life — and less time talking about the weather? It may sound counterintuitive, but people who spend more of their day having deep discussions and less time engaging in small talk seem to be happier, said Matthias Mehl, a psychologist at the

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Very good interview on BBC World Service last night in their THE INTERVIEW series, with Evan Williams, founder of Twitter (and Blogger - thanks Ewan !)

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Creo que soy el primero. . . they say {Telefónica} that I'm the first in my region to try the new O2 Vivaz, which takes 9-sequenced photos, (like the old motor-drives that Terrence Donovan always used for his ace action fashion work. Review-links to follow, in commentarios below (to include Robbie Robertson's test this afternoon at BMGC ?

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New find: Meseon . . . via Google Alerts

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My first experiments with Babylon. Demo video is here. Will report on 2010 tests in comments below. [ most machine translations to date are horrible «'oRRiblay» - PW ]

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Carlos Slim, de 71 años, no usa aviones privados . . . anduvo con un reloj de plástico en la muñeca. . . Slim no es el típico multimillonario que la gente se imagina. Y a pesar de que tiene una computadora personal, admite que no la usa: "Soy un hombre de papeles, no de electrónicos". . . En 1902 totalmente solo, con 14 años de edad, sin hablar español y procedente de Líbano llegó a México (su

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I am a true believer in Google Docs, for quick recording of interesting topics, for colaborative projects, for posting pictures, for avoiding attachments, for one-click publishing to web. Here is Google's new ::video::

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I have always avoided photos (fotos !) in blogs and sometimes on websites too . . . for various reasons, but I do like pictures taken by Brooke, and by Robbie at BMGC, and Terence Donovan (who I knew well in London), and by Jeffrey, amongst several others who I'll point to later. Today I must ask Jeffrey if I can use some of his.

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Hi Peter ! , - as it is International Book Day, there must be something good going on in Hay on Wye ? I have a feeling that you are probably very busy at the moment with your websites and recycling and Timbuktu, and M. busy selling books at the BOOK DAY ! Will contact again soon, and before I get on that plane. Rosemary Dear Rosemary, neither I, nor Magdeleine, knew that it was International

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-355689803164622872010-03-03T21:21:00.003Z2010-03-03T21:29:17.788Z

Chilean Islanders nearly all saved by a 12-year-old girl ! She saved almost the entire population of a small island, 700km off the country's coast. The inhabitants of “Robinson Crusoe Island” were asleep as a massive tsunami approached, (triggered by the earthquake that hit the mainland). The coastal buildings were all smashed but most people survived. “ . . (from where she was – higher up). .

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-39275507412689497592010-03-01T22:47:00.008Z2010-03-02T06:39:52.478Z

The National Day of Wales is always 1st of March, Dydd Dewi Sant, and we all wear a yellow daffodil flower. Dewi was one of the founders of the Celtic Church (c.589 AD) in the British Isles, and his day is celebrated with much singing of songs like Calon Lân. Calon Lân is also sung before every rugby match thoughout the season, often by 1000's at a match. It is also sung beautifully in pubs,

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-2038368638468701252010-03-01T05:31:00.001Z2010-03-01T05:36:15.336Z

I've a couple of Richard's Audiobooks and they make very good going-to-bed listening. Richard has often held audiences spell-bound at The Guardian Hay Festival of Literature with his fine speaking voice, and quick wit.

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Here is the NYT video. Video shot Sunday shows the earthquake damage to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chile’s capital, Santiago.

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Re Secundos Terrorificos, reportaje de Ariel Lara: http://www.lun.com/Pages/NewsDetail.aspx?dt=2010-02-28&NewsID=82730&BodyID=0&PaginaId=30&strNameFile=terremoto_imagenes_mega.flv&iMoveScroll=884

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In 1835, Charles Darwin experienced an earlier earthquake that destroyed Concepción: February 20th 1835. This day has been memorable . . . the most severe earthquake . . . I happened to be on shore, and was lying down to rest myself. It came on suddenly, and lasted two minutes, but the time appeared much longer. The rocking of the ground was very sensible. The undulations appeared to my

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90s Esso Tiger advert | Car Video

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George Osborne prepares to deliver the annual Mais Lecture [on Youtube].

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I am collecting together the classic marketing productions of Esso in the past few decades, from the first "Put a Tiger in Your Tank !", through to the more recent rather subtle, more "eco" campaigns, and not forgetting the fine, fast-moving cartoon short movies. Please send me further links on this topic via «Comment» below. Here are a couple that I have recorded (for my own interests in

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El Museo Tate Britain de Londres inaugura este miércoles una exposición antológica del artista inglés Henry Moore, considerado uno de los grandes escultores del siglo XX. Muchas de sus obras fueron concebidas para estar al aire libre, en parques y calles de la capital británica. . . . [BBC MUNDO,2010] Mira el video estupendo.

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Skiing is about the wind in your hair and the sun on your face as you personally describe the contours of snow-covered mountains at extraordinary speed. It is the closest many of us come to... Visit Boris Johnson.

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-45531886565596328452010-02-22T04:13:00.001Z2010-02-22T04:17:16.099Z

«Obrigado, Ricardo» ***** Your new site design is impressive, surpreendente, and that page loads so fast (in UK), despite the complexity, and it is so cheerful to see, and see again, while we suffer this bad weather, especially in Madeira and Portugal.

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A view from Rural Wales: Gwerinllywodraeth

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Gritos de desespero, gente em estado de choque, ambulâncias a transportar feridos e a Polícia e Bombeiros sem mãos para acudir aos inúmeros pedidos de socorro um pouco por toda a baixa do Funchal. O cenário dantesco ao final da manha entre a Rua Dr. Fernão de Ornelas e a rotunda do Dolce Vita, com lojas completamente destruídas e pessoas em pânico.

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Surprising how much pleasure can be derived from the use of a single word. I remember a phase of playing a rather silly game in the National Assembly about who could meld a selected, obscure word into a speech . . . I was quite good at it. Well, my latest little challenge is to search through my Welsh Dictionary before a media appearance, select a new word, and try to bring it into my

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A folia do Carnaval estende-se este domingo um pouco por toda a ilha. Em Machico, Porto Moniz, Ponta do Sol, Estreito de Câmara de Lobos, Ribeira Brava e Santa Cruz centenas de foliões participam em desfiles de Carnaval.

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-79571476098065387672010-02-13T23:23:00.001Z2010-02-13T23:30:40.679Z

Epic evening with John Bally ! His team's film [Nat Geo Quality] of gliding (big sailpanes) in Morocco, and his Google Picasa slide-show of flying in Namibia, had us* all* spellbound earlier tonight. Here is the international team's fine BLOG: http://rallyeatlasgliders2009.blogspot.com [and here is PW at altitude in the Atlas Mountains, with the air so thin that I reckon the old Kodak colour

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Une sculpture de Giacometti, L'Homme Qui Marche, a été adjugée à Londres pour 65 millions de livres (74,2 millions d'euros), battant le record mondial pour une œuvre d'art vendue aux enchères, a indiqué la maison Sotheby's.

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-29614854873062963622010-02-04T20:18:00.002Z2010-02-13T03:57:10.843Z

East News in Poland, and the Telegraph in England, today have impressive reports and images of the Lanzhou "Burning Bright" illuminated giant Tiger, created to mark The Year of the Tiger in China. Click Lanzhou, above link, to see some of the photographs.

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Peter Mandelson, President of the Board of Trade: It is not often that fate hands you what appears to be a total moral and political victory. But this one looked like a slam dunk. As some of the world’s most self-important people descended last week on the World Economic Forum in Davos, I was delighted to find myself on the same plane as Peter Mandelson, President of the Board of Trade, deputy

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-86652587525787695342010-01-31T07:05:00.000Z2010-01-31T07:05:02.571Z

Friday, 29 January 2010 Proxigean Tides Dept of Learning Something Every Day: I'd never heard of proxigean tides despite a lifelong love of long words, so it was delightful to come across the term at Frogma today. We are due for some over the weekend, with a height of 5.2m in Chichester Harbour on Tuesday, so it's floodboards and sandbags out, chaps. A proxigean tide is an extreme spring tide

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-36238238688747724782010-01-28T05:50:00.000Z2010-01-28T05:50:57.943Z

El primer discurso sobre el estado de la nación de Obama -también uno de los más esperados en mucho tiempo- fue una muestra de solidaridad con el sufrimiento de los ciudadanos afectados por el paro . . .

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-38614236201283452982010-01-15T21:37:00.005Z2010-01-23T02:47:13.032Z

Haití: Tragedia tras terremoto. Ayuda médica cubana entre la destrucción y la muerte. Testimonio desde la capital haitiana en ruinas. Cadáveres en las calles, desesperación, caos y dolor. Desolada, casi en harapos y descalza, una mujer haitiana aparece sentada entre las ruinas de una zona de Puerto Príncipe, luego de la violenta sacudida del terremoto del 12 de enero de 2010. Esta ciudad,

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-41393946093228307192010-01-13T02:29:00.001Z2010-01-13T02:32:53.424Z

El buscador de buscadores amenazó ayer con abandonar sus operaciones en el gigante asiático, a raíz de los ataques "altamente sofisticados" que sufre su servicio. En concreto, denuncia el acceso ilícito a cuentas de su popular correo electrónico Gmail, de los que son titulares activitas chinos. . . . tu debes leer más en El País.

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-6018657712391756972010-01-11T21:08:00.000Z2010-01-11T21:08:15.075Z

Me encanta este video, me acuerdo de mis 5 perros GSD, y 2 Collies. Estuvé hablando también con ellas, las Collies, pero en Galés; con los GSD negros en Inglés, y todos muy contentos a trabajar con las ovejas en los Black Mountains.

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-32411087398330376612010-01-09T22:58:00.003Z2010-01-09T23:15:32.727Z

We already know Chayanne from Provócame, where he portrays a shy stable hand who also sings the show's sanguine theme song. Now we encounter his wilder side, singing about Lola, a jet-set party-loving socialite who might even be a bit dangerous: Como disfrutas la carambola How you enjoy deceit, Lola. But how does carambola translate as "deceit?" The usage evolves from a billiards shot (known

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-17121065546914596982010-01-09T08:25:00.002Z2010-01-09T08:44:48.644Z

Scientists have found the first persuasive evidence that Neanderthals wore "body paint" 50,000 years ago. The team report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that shells containing pigment residues were Neanderthal make-up containers. Scientists unearthed the shells at two archaeological sites in the Murcia province of southern Spain. The team says its find buries "the view

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-57426742512681041372010-01-05T06:06:00.001Z2010-01-05T06:11:36.732Z

Mr. Bean, el personaje que interpreta el actor británico Rowan Atkinson, colapsó ayer la web de la presidencia de la UE (www.eu2010.es) después de haberla presidido unas horas. Por la mañana, un hacker logró redireccionar la página hacia otra en la que aparecía Mr. Bean con unas grandes cejas arqueadas que recordaban a las del presidente Zapatero y un mensaje que decía "hola a todos". "Por la

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-83633546877707522362010-01-03T17:03:00.007Z2010-01-07T20:42:13.578Z

Estuvé leyendo el blog de Eduardo en México, y encontré la palabra «infografista», eso es el trabajo de Eduardo. Creiendo Creyendo yo, saber lo que quiere decir esta palabra pero piensé que debiera verificar el sentido. En el famoso diccionario WordReference no halle yo «infografista» pero en otro diccionario Reverso-Collins hay la palabra. Reverso tiene tambien un «Computer Dictionary» muy bueno

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-43939965300939057112009-12-24T21:42:00.001Z2009-12-30T13:46:16.128Z

Envié hoy algunos postales virtuales desde una página de Don Quijote, la escuela de Español. Tenen postales buenos de todos los países y ciudades donde se puede aprendir aprender Español, siguiendo sus métodos, por exemplo Tenerife, Granada, Sevilla, Mexico, Peru. Querría ir con ellos en Havana, Cuba, en el año nuevo.

Peter Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661843394098568452noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423146616217152657.post-29973178425624558442009-12-12T19:25:00.004Z2009-12-13T07:55:36.466Z

He hecho (haz clic aquí) una prueba de Google Docs; es muy similar a Word pero es más facil a publicar directamente como una página web, y es gratis.

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