Barcino review

Luci Minici was a roman that had lived in Barcino. When he was 7 years old his father who had an important position in the roman army brought a young slave and his mother for work for his family. This slave called Teseu have the same age of Luci and became the nightmare of our protagonist during his childhood.

Teseu did some malicios actions but the family of Luci thinks that he have fault. Not until he is 16 years old that his mother realizes that who stole the jewels was the mother of Teseu and ordered to kill her, after that Teseu run away and disappears. After that Luci enlisted to the army with his father. During his years he got some titles and thanks that he met the emperor Adrià. They became friends easily because both were educated people.

One they during a carriage racing Luci realize that one of the charioteers was Teseu.

Luci who was a good chariotter too challenge Teseu a one race. If Teseu win he will be free, but if the winner is Luci, the former slave have to become a slave again. Teseu can't win to Luci and decide commite suicide before became a slave. 

Some years after when his father is in the bed about to die explain to Luci that Teseu was his son.

Batxillerat

As we are at the end of the course, I can express what I experience in batxillerat.

My first thought was that year I had to work more than a quarter, which I didn't do so much. At first was a bit difficult start but then I carry on enought good. After I had been a bit stabilized, as we getting close to the end all the subjects was more harder for me because I considered it boring and I was easily distracted.

Actually this year (second high school) came with no desire to study although I did it. But as long I studied more for the subjects I was more unhappy, specially for one subject called history of filosofy, my eternal enemy. For this reason the third trimester I exploded. Although I thought at first I won't pass and this didn't matter to me, but I don't want to stay one year more in the high school.

Google takes right to be forgotten battle to France's highest court

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Google has delisted about 600000 search results after requests of doing so had been made in Europe, but these results appear anywhere outside Europe, because its law has no power there. 
However, CNIL thought this wasn't enough, and required google to apply the right to be forgotten worldwide. The firm has rejected the request, thus starting a 10 month of fights that lead to today appellation. 
Ken Walker, Google’s general counsel states that laws will be complied inside the countries in which these laws must be complied. The CNIL thinks that for right to be forgotten to be effective, information must be filtered globally.

The right to be forgotten is a difficult law to apply, and will lead to controversy and ethical disputes. I think Google should protect his database.

The CNIL doesn't have jurisdiction to dictate global laws nor control over any kind of activity carried out by google outside its domains. Google have the right to appeal, otherwise, the trust of the information could be manipulated by any country.

Don't try this at home: Colin Furze's crazy homemade hoverbike

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The hoverboards aren't a new thing. Many enterprises had made a lot of prototypes. Some of these are more complete than others, and can operate better. But one guy called Colin Furze make a homemade hoverbike with the financing of Ford.

The initial design had two motors and propellors mounted to the bottom of the frame and turning in the same direction, but this didn't go well and Furze switched to an S-shaped metal frame that allowed each propeller to rotate in opposite directions.

Although this crazy invention seems that it can't fly and looks close to crashing, this guy is able to control it but is difficult because with a simple spin the hoverboard moves too. Colin wants to incorporate more things like a stabilization system, but the machine can't hold this weight yet.

I saw more of his inventions and all of them are magnificent and crazy at the same time. If you imagine a crazy inventor, Colin Furze is your man.

Hacker advertises details of 117 million LinkedIn users on darknet

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A hacker who allegedly owns the log information of over 100 million LinkedIn users is advertising the data for sale for the price of 5 bitcoins, approximately £1,500.

The data was hacked 4 years ago, and LinkedIn had reset the affected accounts. However, the amount of affected users is greater than what it expected.

Cory Scott, information security officer of the firm does not believe that this information was obtained through a security breach. The site is taking steps to invalidate the passwords of the accounts affected.

£1,500 are a bargain if we are talking about the information of more than 100 million users. The malicious possibilities of so much information are infinite. It seems like Cory Scott is trying to protect his workplace after this massive security breach, because I don’t know how a hacker can obtain the passwords without internet.

China's Massive Pollution is Indicative of Broader Problems

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China have a severe crisis about his enviroment because most of the cities have too much pollution in the air and in some cities it was 50 times the level the World Health Organization considers safe. But unfurtanetly seems that the Chinese goverment is unaware of this big problem.

In 2013 was celebrate the sixth annual Beijing Human Rights Forum. The theme was environmental rights. But the problem is that you can’t have meaningful environmental rights without other basic rights. And the Chinese government is violating them.

China have around 450 cancer villages (communities near factories or chemical plants where cancer rates far exceed national averages), but if this people ask for help to the govern they are ignored.

Although Beijing announced a commitment to addressing the environmental problem in China, the country have already many environmental protection laws, but they weren't apply.

All know about the big problem that China have with the pollution, but I think it's too difficult to solve because the Government always permit everything to the enterprises if these pay to it. And the Goverment are agree that the enterprises come to China because the value of the country rise but the people continue poor.

Human Rights

If all the people had the same privilleges the world would a beutifull place. But it is not true because if you go out of the Western World you will see images that you won't believe.If you think that poor people in your country are miserable you can't imagine what  the people that are poor feel in a poor country. And if you see the television the human rights of most of these people are violated. Human righs are only the rights you have simply because we are human. The human rights was created after the Second World War by the United Nations for in the future didn't do things like the past. But why, these people don't have anyone of all the thirty?

Well, this have a simply answer: We have the fault. Because we don't punish and we do nothing about the people that treat they like things only for make a profit for them. And the law most times can't do nothing about it. All of us know about the inequality of this world, but only few people have the mind for change this.

Vocabulary:

• Freedom from unlawful detainment: Llibertat per detenció il·legal.
• Fair and public trial: Judici just i plublic.
• Fair employment and right to unionize: Treball just i dret a sindicalització.

Gamer with cerebral palsy given modified PS4 controller

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Peter Byrne in his 22 years have a cerebral palsy. He is a gamer who enjoys play videogames in the Playstation.

But unfortunately the controller of the Playstation 4 have one touchpad that was a problem for him because his tremors made that he touched it several times when he was playing and this paused the game.

For this reason Peter contacted with Sony and explained his problem about the controller. Alex Nawabi from Sony's marketing team said he would investigate. He modified a Dual Shock 4 controller and sent it Peter Byrne. Nawabi said it took him around 10 hours and three attempts to create the new controller. But it only is a prototype and he didn't know he time that it will work.

Mr. Byrne is thankful with his present and with Alex Nawabi and now he can play normally how previously he did.

Thanks people like Alex Nawabi other people can enjoy the thing that he like to do. Because I don't think that a enterprise like Sony most of them don't thinks with these people that can't enjoy their products like a normal person.

Looking back

1. Can you see an improvement on your level of English in the past year/s? English post

Yes, because when I wrote texts the past year, I used simply vocabulary and too much the translate, but this year is not necessary for all.

2. Which activity best shows your level of English?

In the exams is where I show my bests marks.

3.Which activities did were really  USEFUL for you to improve your English? Why?

All the activities are useful for improve my english, but the activities that improves more my english are the writings and the grammar, because with the practise I structure better the texts that I write.

4. Which activities did you NOT find useful to learn English? Why not?

The presentations, because when I expose the topic I get nervous and fail the pronunciaton, and I need read because I don't remember the text. And the exams about phresal verbs, because after this I don't remember what I write on it.

5.Which activities would like to do again next year to keep on improving your English?

All the activities that I did this year are improving my English, some more and some less, but for me is important do all.

Charlie Charlie Challenge

I can see this challenge on youtube many times on many videos of famous or not famous people.

Many videos have become viral, and this challenge, as many people say, invoke the demon of Charlie Charlie. The challenge is about to put two pencils, one above the other perpendicular on a paper that is divided into four parts (two of YES and two of NO), then, you make questions of YES or NO to the supposed spirit. Personally I think it's very false, and I find it shameful that most of people have won millions of visitors on his videos about this challenge.

Several scientists say that the only fact that makes to move the pencil is the gravity, because it's very difficult that the two pencils are perfectly in balance, or even the most minimum breath can makes to move it.

Quadriplegic Woman Moves Robot Arm With Her Mind

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Jan Scheuermann suffers from spinocerebellar degeneration, a genetic disease where connections between the brain and muscles slowly deteriorate. She is now tetraplegic, meaning that she is paralyzed from the neck down. She saw a video where a man could tetraplegic a robotic arm with a screen of a computer, so she also wanted to try.

The scientists developed microelectrode arrays that connect brain cells to electronic circuitry. They scanned Scheuermann's brain to determine exactly where to put these electronics. One week after of the operation, Scheuermann was adapt quickly to the prosthesis and controled it by her mind.

In a few years this will mean that anyone with a disability that prevents them using their extremities, could do things with less aid that currently, like this, will not need someone that help them during 24 hours a day.

Review: The hobbit: the battle of the five armies

This film is the third part of the trilogy of The Hobbit. It's important that you saw the others films, because if you didn't see the others, you don't know the beginning and the story.

The story continue with the dwarfs in Erebor. They are preparing for a battle against an army of elves led by King Thranduil, which seeks part of the treasure of dwarfs. But they are only thirteen dwarfs against thousands of soldiers. Meanwhile Bardo is defending the human village against Smaug (the dragon). After killing the dragon, the village was burned, people had to take refuge in Erebor. Bardo also wanted to claim part of the treasure of dwarfs, because part of this is pertinent of they. When the battle was to begin the army of dwarves appears. But soon after, a large army of orcs appears to kill all of them, for this reason humans, elves and dwarves join their forces to fight the orcs. When the orcs were ready to win the giant eagles appears, but meanwhile Azog and Thorin are fighting but finally kill each other. Finally the battle is won and orcs are annihilated, Bilbo says goodbye and returns to his home.

I expected much this film, because I keen on the two previous films. But I was disappointed because it has too many failures in the argument. For example, few animals appears for help the dwarfs, but during the film haven't said anything about them. Another example when Bilbo kills orcs only with stones in the head, and a few other things that suggest that the film was made quickly.

We have made the world a better place. Do you agree?

The world is not a good place for everybody. In my opinion, if we can make it a good place for everybody, the people will change.

First, only few countries have the 80% of the resources of the world, like USA or Eurepoean countries. And other hundreds and hundreds countries only have the 20% of the resouces. This makles a big unequality betwen countries and people.

Second, the mosts powerful enterprises in the world have become richers and riches by the work of the poor people of the underdeveloped countries.

Third, and the most important, the people don't have knowledge about the dangerous of this capitalism society. Because the people consume amnd consume and don't stop. And one day the resources will be finished.

In conclusion, we haven't made the world a better place yet.

Gender violence

Presentation         10%	Do you use any resources: powerpoint, video, images, sound, real material...? Are the resources focused on the topic? Do the resources support your oral explanation? Is the timing 5- 10 minutes?	8%
Body language & eye contact        10%	Are  you looking at your audience most of the time? Are you reading occasionally from your notes ? Are you doing any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience?	6%
Structure          10%	Do you organize your ideas in order of importance? Do you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear? (First, then, secondly, on the one hand, on the other, finally…)	7%
Content         40%	Do you introduce new information to your audience? Is your information  detailed, clear and...? Do you give/show examples?	30%
Language        20%	Is your grammar correct, complex? (verbs, word order, tenses learnt in class) Is your vocabulary rich, varied (synonyms, idioms, expressions, phasal verbs, topic-related) Do you use sentence linkers? (and, but, moreover, also, furthermore, although, however…) Do you use fillers? (well, you know, for example, one second, repeating a word…)	14%
Pronunciation & Intonation         10%	Do you know how to pronounce all your words? Did you check the pronunciation? Do you change your tone of voice or use a monotone tone all the time? Do you speak in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions?	6%
Self-Evaluation	You are your teacher! :-)                                 FINAL MARK:	7,1

Stare to Unlock: This Phone Scans Your Iris

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Are you sick of that unblock the mobile with difficult passwords or digital fingerprint that be difficult to detect. Well, Fujitsu has created a prototype of a phone that is unlocked with your iris, thanks to a infrared cameras.

According to the creators, although the demo can not do it, in the final product, the software can recognize your eyes, even if you use contact lenses or glasses. The iris scan authentication provides a method much better and more faster than the reading of fingerprint or facial recognition.

Currently there is no model of phone that have this camera, but it is expected that in recent years these can appear.

This can be very useful, because now the modes of unlock mobile aren't very secure. For example if you use digits can be discovered and fingerprints aren't useful because if the button is a little dirty be difficult to detect.

PET: Part 2- Question 6/ Part 3- Question 8

Question 6

Hi Rosie.

I send this email to invite you to come to my town, because a new shopping center has opened. Although it isn't very big, because only contain shops of: supermarket, electronics, clothing, jewelry, restaurants and no more. If you want, we will lunch there and then in the evening, stroll there for see different shops and stores.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Question 8

It was the day before the birthday of Henry.Quickly I had to go to the store to buy a present. henry is one of my best friends, for this reason I can't buy any gift. In the end I bought the videogame that he told me heliked.
I woke up and I was nervous to go to the party. When I went to the livingroom I didn't saw the present, but I didn't careabout this. One hour before the party I started to prepare to go there. I wanted the gift but I didn'tfind it this anywhere. I asked my mother if she saw this, but she said that she didn't saw it today. Fiveteen minutesbefore to left, I was so nervous and I decided to caress my dog. In the doghouse I saw something strange on the floor. Surprisingly, it was the present for Henry. Unfortunately, was a little bit bitten.

Shrimp shells could provide biodegradable plastic alternative

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For many people "plastic" it means pollution, because it's a material created from oil and take much time to degrade.

Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have introduced a new bioplastic isolated from shrimp shells. It’s made from chitosan, a form of chitin. This material is cheap and easy to manufacture for a new method that retains strong mechanical properties of chitosan. The researchers say can be used to make large objects with complex shapes. Once unusable this breaks down into weeks and even can be useful for plants.

I think that if this is done can bring something very good and very bad. The first is that pollution produced from plastics will be reduced, also the oil consumption, as well as this material "favour the plants" according to the researchers say. But the downside is that this will mean a massive fishing of this animal, which result in a progressive extinction of this, and depending how fished this, imply a destruction of ecosystems in which it is located.

Formal letter

C/ Del Mar 21

Castelló d'Empúries

13th March 2015

Human Resources Departament

Mercadona supermarket

C/ Mas Pau

Empuriabrava

To whom it may concern

I would like to apply for a job in this supermarket as a shop assistant this summer.

I have experience in this area, because I worked in others supermarkets like Lidl and Aldi, and I am keen on having contact with the people. If you like I can work in other job. I speak four different languages, English, German, Catalan and Spanish.

I want to work in the summer because the rest of the year I am studying. And this can be useful for  pay my university studies.

Yours faithfully

Pere Avellan