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My special tribute to Saint George

These are my kids playing a free version of the story of Saint George and the dragon. I hope you enjoy it.
http://youtu.be/RalVcFR3PUs

 Video of the week by Ana Serra


http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/ca/sebastiao_salgado_the_silent_drama_of_photography.html

What can we do to help the environment? We are used to listen to the experts telling us what to do. Sebastiäo Salgado, who is a Brazilian photographer, show us what he has done.   A little bit long video but it is worth it, it is very interesting.

Article of the week by Clara López

Nowadays, the life It's very fast and we don't have enougth time to think in ourselves.
In this article you have advices to be happy. You can try to follow this to be a little more happy.

You can also whatch this video, so that It's the main idea of the article.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

I love cheesecake and this recipe is very good.  Try to do it and enjoy
it!!
Have a nice weekend!!!

http://www.howcast.com/videos/180893-How-to-Make-a-Classic-New-York-Cheesecake

The article of the week by Teresa Campins

TAX MYTHS AND TALL TALES. Nine tax facts that hardly anyone knows. the truth of the crisis or How many things the rich can invent to be richer and the poor poorer.
http://www.athensnews.com/ohio/article-33737-tax-myths-and-tall-tales.html

Why girls toys have to be pink?

Some time ago I found this wonderful little girl and her wise speech. She is completely against that companies use pink for girl stuff ... No waste, I advise you to listen and enjoy it for the purity of childhood.

Rock the Red Pump campaing

http://www.theredpumpproject.org/rock-the-red-pump/

Very original campaing against the HIV/AIDS.
Unfortunately the women of the word are the most damned about this plague. Africa is the more but in EEUU, for the other reasons, is a place whith a very high level of women with this disease.

“Every 47 minutes, a woman tests positive for HIV in the United States.“

The Red Pump Project uses red shoes to get the attention of women everywhere. While we have your attention, we want to talk about the HIV/AIDS and its impact on women and girls.

The video of the week by Rosa.

Hi classmates!! I have found a video about an American teenager who speaks 23 languages. He is sixteen years old and some of the languages that he speaks are French, Latin, ancient Greek, Mandarin, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, Pashto, Hindi, Indonesian, Wolof, Hausa, Swahili, Ojibwe, Dutch, Italian, etc.

What do you thing about this? I think that if he can speak 23 languages, we can speak English very well. Come on!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4BxtXvDhSb0#!


You can also  see this video where Tim speaks in 20 different languages:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOiXtWcQ8GI

What does Virgin Mean?

I must show you this fantastic short film. It's fun and surprising. Would you have passed something similar with your children or students?

Article of the week by Mònica Arjona

An original way of having dinner: Pop up restaurants!
http://restaurants.about.com/od/restaurantconcepts/a/How-A-Pop-Up-Restaurant-Differs-From-A-Regular-Restaurant.htm

Feelings!!!!

I hope You like it!!!

The Real Reason Guys Should Hate Twilight

Hello classmates! I found this fantastic video which clearly explains the reasons to hate Twilight. Enjoy it!

ARTICLE OF THE WEEK: US judge lifts "Morning After" pill age limit.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22044790

Unqualified teachers in classrooms.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21988209


Unbelievable!!

ARTICLE OF THE WEEK: "The Rolling Stones are to play Glastonbury for the first time in their 50 year career."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/going-out/music/rolling-stones-play-glastonbury-first-1788863

The article of the week. (by Marta Garcia)

 Here you're the article about our new Pope.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21835363

VIDEO OF THE WEEK: IM chief Christine Lagarde 'women should not imitate men'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21698322 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21698322

VIDEO OF THE WEEK: IM chief Christine Lagarde: 'women should not imitated men'

Article of the week by Ana Mª Cañadas. Is it even possible to live a celibate life?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21654663

Article of the week, by Lluís Puech

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attacks the immune system

A baby girl in the US born with HIV appears to have been cured after very early treatment with standard drug therapy, doctors say.
The Mississippi child is now two-and-a-half years old and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.

Cocktail of drugs
More testing needs to be done to see if the treatment - given within hours of birth - would work for others.
If the girl stays healthy, it would be the world's second reported 'cure'.
Dr Deborah Persaud, a virologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, presented the findings at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta.
"This is a proof of concept that HIV can be potentially curable in infants," she said.
In 2007, Timothy Ray Brown became the first person in the world believed to have recovered from HIV.
His infection was eradicated through an elaborate treatment for leukaemia that involved the destruction of his immune system and a stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare genetic mutation that resists HIV infection.
In contrast, the case of the Mississippi baby involved a cocktail of widely available drugs, known as antiretroviral therapy, already used to treat HIV infection in infants.
It suggests the swift treatment wiped out HIV before it could form hideouts in the body.
These so-called reservoirs of dormant cells usually rapidly reinfect anyone who stops medication, said Dr Persaud.
The baby was born in a rural hospital where the mother had only just tested positive for HIV infection.
Because the mother had not been given any prenatal HIV treatment, doctors knew the baby was at high risk of being infected.
Researchers said the baby was then transferred to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
Once there, paediatric HIV specialist Dr Hannah Gay put the infant on a cocktail of three standard HIV-fighting drugs at just 30 hours old, even before laboratory tests came back confirming the infection.
The treatment was continued for 18 months, at which point the child disappeared from the medical system. Five months later the mother and child turned up again but had stopped the treatment in this interim.
"This certainly is the first documented case that we can truly believe from all the testing that has been done.
"Many doctors in six different laboratories all applied different, very sophisticated tests trying to find HIV in this infant and nobody was able to find any.
"And so we really can quite confidently conclude at this point that the child does very much appear to be cured."
A spokeswoman for the HIV/Aids charity the Terrence Higgins Trust said: "This is interesting, but the patient will need careful ongoing follow-up for us to understand the long-term implications for her and any potential for other babies born with HIV."

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THE BEST VIDEO OF THE WEEK (BY TONI PEÑAS)

JACE EVERETT (BAD THINGS)

I wanna do bad things with you.
When you came in the air went out.
And every shadow filled up with doubt.
I don't know who you think you are,
But before the night is through,
I wanna do bad things with you.
I'm the kind to sit up in his room.
Heart sick an' eyes filled up with blue.
I don't know what you've done to me,
But I know this much is true:
I wanna do bad things with you.
When you came in the air went out.
And all those shadows there filled up with doubt.
I don't know who you think you are,
But before the night is through,
I wanna do bad things with you.
I wanna do real bad things with you.
Ow, ooh.
I don't know what you've done to me,
But I know this much is true:
I wanna do bad things with you.
I wanna do real bad things with you.

Article of the week by Carolina (from the New York Times)

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February 8, 2013

Dear Valentine, I Hate It When You ...

By ELI J. FINKEL

HAVE you decided what to get for your valentine this year? You could try something classic, like chocolates. Or something blingy, like earrings. Or sexy, like lingerie.

But if you really want to improve your relationship, you should give your loved one an i.o.u.

Find a nice piece of stationery, and in your most graceful lettering, assert: “I promise to write about our next three fights as though I were a neutral observer.” Then, doodle a heart on the page, stick it in a pretty envelope and give it to that special someone over dinner.

New research suggests that this may be the most valuable present you’ll ever give. After all, conflict is inevitable in long-term relationships, and the way people navigate it can affect not only their happiness, but their mental and physical health as well.

Married couples who are hostile when they fight, for instance, are more likely than gently scrapping spouses to have compromised immune functioning, elevated coronary calcium levels (an early risk factor for heart disease), and slow wound healing. The negative effects, in various studies, can be seen in both men and women, and frequently in both the aggressive partner and the recipient of hostility.

Dirty fighting is a lose-lose proposition for pretty much any couple. But a spousal spat isn’t necessarily bad. Indeed, fighting can actually shore up a relationship, if it’s done constructively.

With that in mind, I recently collaborated with colleagues at Stanford University, Villanova and Redeemer University College to determine if a no-cost, no-counseling “intervention” could improve marriages by actually helping couples fight better. And the procedure we tested involves little more than having each spouse write about their spats on three occasions.

In a two-year study to be published this spring in the journal Psychological Science, we recruited 120 relatively happily married couples from the greater Chicago area. The duration of these marriages ranged from one month to 52 years.

In the first year, every four months, we had both partners in each couple provide a brief description of the most significant marital conflict they had experienced in the previous four months.

Then, in the second year of the study, we divided the group in two. In one subgroup (our control), we continued the process of the first year.

For the other subgroup, though, we gave an additional, if modest, writing assignment. Beyond their summaries of the fight, we asked each spouse to write about the conflict from the perspective of a neutral third party who wants the best for both spouses — and, from the perspective of this imaginary individual, to identify, if possible, any single positive aspect to the argument.

One wife, for example, wrote that this neutral observer “would tell me that I needed time to calm my anger down and channel it in another way.” A husband in the study recalled that, during a recent argument with his wife at a hotel, there actually was a mutual friend listening nearby. “My mind kept going back to her listening to our spat,” he wrote, concluding that she probably “heard a rational discussion between two loving people.”

To maximize the chances that volunteers in this group would keep this constructive “outsider” perspective in mind in their daily lives, we also asked them to write about what might prevent them from adopting this point of view during future marital conflicts and about what strategies they could employ to overcome these obstacles.

Each of these supplemental writing assignments took an average of seven minutes, for an additional writing time of just 21 minutes per spouse in the intervention group during Year Two of the study.

The results, however, were striking. For couples in the control group — consistent with several previous studies, unfortunately —  marital quality declined over the two-year period, as measured by self-reported numerical assessments of marital satisfaction, passion, love, trust and intimacy.

Likewise, the same measures fell among spouses in the intervention condition during the first year of the study, before the additional writing assignment began.

But then, in Year Two, the decline stopped for these couples: levels of mutual happiness and satisfaction remained where they were at the end of the first year. And this was true regardless of how long they had been married.

In a follow-up analysis, we discovered that, while the frequency and severity of arguments in each arm of the study were comparable, couples who did the extra writing exercise found their fights significantly less distressing over time.

We don’t yet know whether such conflict evaluation is as effective in marriages that are already struggling — indeed, while the procedure appeared to stem the expected erosion of marital bliss, it did not reverse the effects of previous declines.

But that said, given the trajectory of most marriages, it seems wise not to wait too long. A promise to turn at least some of your fights into short-story workshops may be the sweetest Valentine’s Day gift you ever give — especially if it’s taped to a box of chocolates.

Eli J. Finkel is a professor of psychology at Northwestern University who studies attraction and relationships.

The video of the week by Noelia Olmedo

Hello classmates! This week I have to upload a video and I'm very happy. I found one very actual and fun. The subject is about the mobile phones and  the hobby of upload photos to anything so your friends comment it. It is really very funny. Sure you feel identified on one side or the other. The lyrics of the song is wonderful, no waste. I hope you enjoy as much as I. A greeting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn-dD-QKYN4&feature=youtu.be

By the way, I recommend you see other videos of humor of the channel. Really fun!

http://www.collegehumor.com/

Article of the week by Mar López: My route to existential risk

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Article of the week by Yasone

Beyoncé’s Inauguration Performance: Live or Prerecorded?

By JAMES C. MCKINLEY JR.

Beyoncé’s performance of the national anthem at President Obama’s second inauguration on Monday was everything it should be: soaring, moving, symbolic and musically superlative. But was it actually live?

A spokeswoman for the Marine Corps Band said early Tuesday that Beyoncé only pretended to sing, lip-syncing the words to a backing track. What the listeners heard was a version she had recorded at a Marine Corps studio in Washington on Sunday night, the spokeswoman, Master Sgt. Kristin duBois said.

Chang W. Lee/The New York TimesBeyoncé on Monday.

But by Tuesday afternoon, the Marine Corps had backed off Sergeant duBois’s statement, saying while the band had not played live, neither Sergeant duBois nor anyone else in the Marine Band was in a position to know if Beyoncé had sung the anthem live or not. Capt. Gregory A. Wolf, a Marine Corps spokesman, said the corps had determined that a live performance of the anthem was ill advised because its members had little time to rehearse with the singer.

A publicist for Beyoncé did not immediately return telephone calls and e-mail messages.

Earlier Sergeant duBois had said the weather was good and the Marine Band had no trouble with intonation during most of the prelude and ceremony, nearly two and a half hours of music. Still, at the last minute, she said, the band received word that Beyoncé would use a recorded version of the national anthem.

“We don’t know why,” Sergeant duBois said. “But that is what we were instructed to do, so that is what we did.”

Captain Wolf said it was standard operating procedure to record the music for the inauguration in advance, in case the weather is bad and it becomes impossible for musicians to keep their instruments in tune. Four years ago Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and two colleagues used backing tracks during their performance at President Obama’s first inauguration because of the bitter cold.

Beyoncé had recorded the song in a studio at the Marine Barracks Annex on Sunday night, using tracks already laid down by the Marine Band, Sergeant duBois said.

Oz, the great and powerful (Video of the week, by Carolina)

The film is adapted from the novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", written by L.Frank Baum in 1900, and is set before the novel and the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz". I love the old film, and now I'm anxious to see this new version, aren't you? :)

"We're off to see the Wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz... Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Follow the Yellow Brick Road..."♫♫♫



Jodie Foster

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/15/jodie-foster-coming-out-speech

Video of the week, by Lluís Puech

Some advices for the new year:

Video of the week, by Clara López

My idol David Bowie, comes back after ten years.
I love his music and I follow him since I was a teenager, a lot of years ago.
He returns just on my birthday. It's the best present for me!

Video of the week - Steve Jobs speech at Stanford University

Article of the week by Ana Serra

Using TripAdvisor? Some Advice

By SETH KUGEL

André Letria

In October, on assignment to find the cheapest way to spend a few days on a Caribbean beach, I dug up a very budget-friendly package to the all-inclusive Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach resort in the Dominican Republic. Four days, three nights, $561.86 — airfare and airport transfer included. I wondered what was wrong with the place. Surly service? Terrible food? Dirty rooms?
So, I did what any modern traveler would do: I looked it up on TripAdvisor.com. Soon, I was staring down over 1,000 user reviews. Among them were some that substantiated my worst fears: “Very rude staff”; “all-inclusive gruel”; “room filled with mold.” Others were far more positive. I went ahead and booked.

Knowing how to navigate the popular site is as necessary a modern travel skill as packing efficiently or decoding European train schedules. TripAdvisor’s sites attracted an average of 53 million unique visitors a month in 2012 through November, according to comScore, an online analytics firm, to its user-generated reviews of over two million hotels, restaurants and attractions.
It has spawned competitors, like Yelp and Google Places, and most of the globe is now “reviewed” in some form. Trying to decide between two rival satay stands in a remote Indonesian village? Check your smartphone, and you could very well find an online debate raging over which is better.
I travel about 180 days a year, so I think about TripAdvisor a lot. When I’m not using it, the guy next to me on the bus is. And here’s my conclusion: I love TripAdvisor. I hate TripAdvisor. It amazes me. It terrifies me. It has made travel infinitely better. It has ruined travel forever.
But love it or hate it, you’d better use it right. Here are the questions and answers most essential to the TripAdvisor experience.
What’s the best way to navigate all the opinions?
I posed this to Adam Medros, a TripAdvisor vice president. “One of the things that, over the last 12 or 15 years, people have learned how to do online is look at the good and look at the bad and then try to find threads of consistency among the comments,” he said.
That’s what happened to me as I looked at the resort reviews. The negative ones were the ones that first caught my attention, perhaps by chance. But a lot of the complainers seemed, frankly, like unpleasant travelers. A majority liked the resort, and many positive reviewers chided the negative Nellies for expecting luxury accommodations at bargain prices, a sentiment I related to. And everyone praised the beach, which was my main purpose for going.
Still, once I arrived, I had trouble shaking those critical reviews. Though I found no mold in my room, I couldn’t get over the feeling that it must have been there. And though the staff I met was perfectly friendly, I wondered if I had gotten lucky.
 Mr. Medros also helped me understand how I could have done it even better. I’ve since learned the benefits of the site’s filtering functions — just reading reviews by solo travelers, for example — and of other options, like signing into TripAdvisor through Facebook, which enables the site to prioritize reviews written by your Facebook friends and friends of friends.
 Of course, not everyone’s ideal vacation involves such risks, especially if you’ve got only two weeks off a year or have a partner you are trying to impress. But I believe everyone should use the vast online database of the travel world with moderation. Save a day or two for spontaneity: seek advice from a stranger on the Seoul subway; take a day to explore an Italian town just because you stopped there for gas; trust your instinct to find a Parisian bistro to call your own. Maybe you’ll find out later that its croque-madame has been praised 717 times on TripAdvisor. Who cares? You discovered it yourself.

 The New York Times
 http://www.nytimes.com/pages/travel/index.html