I've always handled myself with english pretty decently, although these few years living in Spain made me realize I feel more confident speaking in spanish, and that's not unusual at all, because for me, the environment makes the speaker, above everything. Putting yourself in a situation where you need to develope a language by any means makes you learn faster than going to spanish classes but living in U.K, per example.
I've always admired spanish for its variety in literature and how poetic it can be, but don't misjudge me; I'm not saying english sounds like a dirty idiom but I hate the fact that there are so many meanings and less significants. In the other hand, I'd rather write in english for the rest of my life than in spanish, but that's personal preferences but briefly:
For speaking: spanish
To writting: english.
diumenge, 13 de març del 2016
Apple could reveal mini iPhone 5SE on March 21
Apple could reveal mini iPhone 5SE on March 21
NEW YORK
Set that calendar reminder: Apple is about to reveal some new gadgets on March 21.
The company sent invitations to the media for a special event on Thursday, with the words "Let us loop you in."
Apple is widely expected to take the covers off a mini iPhone -- a four-inch "iPhone 5SE."The smaller phone will be about the same size as the existing iPhone 5S, according to leaked images. But it will also have some of the same features as the newer iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S models, including rounded edges, a Touch ID home button and an on/off button on the right-hand side of the device.
Some other products Apple could show off? There have been reports about a possible smaller iPad Pro, new Apple watch bands and software updates for its devices.
Releasing a smaller iPhone makes a good deal of sense for Apple.
The iPhone 7 is expected to be released in the fall, when Apple would typically be expected to retire the iPhone 5S. By that point, the 5S will be three years old.
Though Apple doesn't break out sales numbers for different versions of the iPhone, Wall Street analysts believe there has been a large amount of staying power for the iPhone 5S because of its smaller size.
The iPhone 5S is the last four-inch iPhone on the market.
Personal opinion
Apple must be really confident on their marketing if they're thinking that a mix of iphone6 and iphone 5 but smaller is going to pass by as a new model. They even state "including rounded edges" because that's the top of the innovation!! And they say it like having rounded edges is an achievement...
Vocabulary:
Edges: bordes
Devices: dispositivo
Dross
DrossRotZank is a very interesting youtube channel which I highly recomend to all those people who want to have fun, and learn at the same time. Ángel David Revilla, better known as dross used to upload a lot of different things to his channel, from gameplays to Q&A sessions called "Dross contesta preguntas estúpidas", but now he mainly uploads top 7's and horror stories.
I don't blame you if at first sight you think that this is a common and boring channel, but I invite you to find out his true talent, narration.
Dross is very talented when it comes to establish a scary/dismal atmosphere to his stories, and that makes him different from the others, apart from the inusual topics of his top 7 videos, like:
Top 7 most disturbing suicides
Top 7 most weird music genres
Top 7 most horrible death penalties
Top 7 scariest places on earth, etc...
Yuri & Jere podcast
Me and Jere discussing about a few important topics, and some weird questions...
https://audioboom.com/boos/4296906-jere-and-yuri-podcast
https://audioboom.com/boos/4296906-jere-and-yuri-podcast
Resident Evil 4
General:
So, I thought it was a good idea to bring some videogame topic to this blog as a "your say", and getting it started with a childhood game wouldn't be bad. Resident Evil 4, first horror-survival game I played when I was young, and the one who introduced into the resident evil franchise as well. This game brings me back so many memories, and nightmares too! I can barely remember the day I finished it, but I felt so happy! The pain was over, because it was indeed a pain in the ass to finish it, considering that a eight-year-old boy shouldn't be playing this hehe. Jumpscares, horrifying enemies, scary atmosphere because of the soundtrack and the environment, charismatic characters and a nice plot made this game a masterpiece.
Plot:
Leon is a US agent who received a mission to rescue the president's daughter, ashley, who was kidnapped by a weird spanish religious cult, who seem to worship a god, called Saddler, created by "Las plagas", which was the virus they used to infect people. Through his campaign, Leon will go through different sscenarios, 3 in total: The spanish village with peasant zombies ( a cool detail about this game is the fact that some of the people who got infected could still preserve human habits, like talk, use weapons, work, plan ambushes, etc...but they were really violent with strangers ), The spanish castle with religious zombies dressed like monks saying "morir es vivir" and The Island with soldier zombies, to rescue Ashley and get her back home.
Most terrifying experience
1 word. REGENERATOR.
My very first encounter with him made me turn off my Ps2, because of how scared I was. Your first encounter with him is in the Island, where you enter a hospital, more exactly, in a surgery room. When you get in, you see him through a window, lying on a bed, but the door is closed so you can't get near. Once you collect a key to progress to the next part of the game, you hear the noise of the jammed door, getting open. The music starts, and you hear his asthmatic breathing. He's an obnoxious enemy because you can only kill him shooting in 3-4 specific body locations, where the virus resides, if you shoot anywhere else (arms, legs, head, stomach), it will explode, but past a few minutes, he will recover from it, in other words, Regenerate it.
So, I thought it was a good idea to bring some videogame topic to this blog as a "your say", and getting it started with a childhood game wouldn't be bad. Resident Evil 4, first horror-survival game I played when I was young, and the one who introduced into the resident evil franchise as well. This game brings me back so many memories, and nightmares too! I can barely remember the day I finished it, but I felt so happy! The pain was over, because it was indeed a pain in the ass to finish it, considering that a eight-year-old boy shouldn't be playing this hehe. Jumpscares, horrifying enemies, scary atmosphere because of the soundtrack and the environment, charismatic characters and a nice plot made this game a masterpiece.
Plot:
Leon is a US agent who received a mission to rescue the president's daughter, ashley, who was kidnapped by a weird spanish religious cult, who seem to worship a god, called Saddler, created by "Las plagas", which was the virus they used to infect people. Through his campaign, Leon will go through different sscenarios, 3 in total: The spanish village with peasant zombies ( a cool detail about this game is the fact that some of the people who got infected could still preserve human habits, like talk, use weapons, work, plan ambushes, etc...but they were really violent with strangers ), The spanish castle with religious zombies dressed like monks saying "morir es vivir" and The Island with soldier zombies, to rescue Ashley and get her back home.
Most terrifying experience
1 word. REGENERATOR.
My very first encounter with him made me turn off my Ps2, because of how scared I was. Your first encounter with him is in the Island, where you enter a hospital, more exactly, in a surgery room. When you get in, you see him through a window, lying on a bed, but the door is closed so you can't get near. Once you collect a key to progress to the next part of the game, you hear the noise of the jammed door, getting open. The music starts, and you hear his asthmatic breathing. He's an obnoxious enemy because you can only kill him shooting in 3-4 specific body locations, where the virus resides, if you shoot anywhere else (arms, legs, head, stomach), it will explode, but past a few minutes, he will recover from it, in other words, Regenerate it.
Trump: I 'should get credit, not be scorned' for tone of events
Donald Trump is pinning the blame for escalating violence and protests at his campaign events on Bernie Sanders.
The Republican presidential front-runner said in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" Sunday that he "should get credit, not be scorned" for his handling of the tension at his events.
"You had professional disruptors, thousands of them, from Sanders and to a smaller extent, Hillary (Clinton)," he said of a Friday night event in Chicago that Trump canceled after chaos broke out there.
Trump was deflecting blame after a weekend of eruptions on the campaign trail. On Friday, his campaign canceled his appearance at an event in Chicago amid security concerns. On Saturday, a man rushed the stage during one of his speeches, and Trump closed out the day by calling for the arrest of protesters at his events.
Trump said of conservatives: "We are treated so unfairly, and I'm treated very unfairly."
He fired a warning shot at Sanders, suggesting that his supporters could disrupt the Vermont senator and Democratic hopeful's events after some of the Chicago protesters brought pro-Sanders signs.
"If conservative Republicans ever went into his rally, you would see things happen that would be unbelievable," Trump said, even as he denied that a tweet he'd posted Sunday morning saying that Sanders should "be careful" was a threat.
His comments come a week after a 78-year-old Trump supporter was arrested after video showed he sucker-punched a protester who was being escorted from a Trump event in North Carolina. (On NBC's "Meet the Press," Trump on Sunday told moderator Chuck Todd that he's "instructed my people to look into" whether he could pay the man's legal bills.)
Breitbart journalist Michelle Fields, meanwhile, accused Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski of grabbing her after a campaign event. Fields tweeted photos of her bruises and filed a criminal complaint alleging she'd been assaulted.
Sanders, in an interview with Tapper on "State of the Union," said his campaign "had nothing to do" with what happened in Chicago. He also called on his supporters to allow Trump's events to go forward.
"I would hope that my supporters would not disrupt meetings. To protest is one thing, to disrupt is something else," he said.
Still, Sanders said Trump carries the blame for the escalating tensions at his events.
"Even his Republican colleagues make this point: His language, his intonation, when he talks about carrying people out in stretchers ... this is a man who keeps implying violence, and then you end up getting what you seek," he said.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio also criticized Trump on "State of the Union."
"He has turned the most important election in a generation into a circus, into a complete fiasco and a carnival," he said.
Rubio suggested he's considering backing off his pledge to support the Republican nominee if Trump wins the nomination.
"It's getting harder every day to justify that statement to myself, to my children, to my family, and to the people that support me," Rubio said.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich said on "State of the Union" that he, too, is tired of seeing Trump's comments designed to make people "depressed and down and angry."
"When I saw the violence in Chicago, I just had enough," Kasich said.
Personal Opinion:
Trump is really a failure of a candidate to be US's president, and he's trying so hard to convince people that he is quite the contrary. I don't support his ideology mainly because of his racist campaigns and his demagoguism, but it seems like he's getting really far in the competion thanks to all the blind people who vote him. In case he wins, let's see how much time it takes to his supporters to start complaining about him!
Vocabulary:
Bruises: Contusiones
Disrupt: interrumpir
Fiasco: fracaso
Blast in turkish capital of Ankara kills at least 27
An explosion ripped through a busy square in the Turkish capital Sunday evening, killing at least 27 people and wounding 75 others, the Ankara governor's office said.Scores of police cars, firefighters and medical personnel rushed to the scene. Security forces evacuated the area, the official Turkish news agency Anadolu reported.
Authorities haven't released details about what caused the blast.February: Kurdish militants claim deadly Ankara blast
"It's too early to talk about who carried out this attack. The investigation is ongoing," a senior Turkish official said. "Our priority right now is the wounded."The explosion apparently targeted a transportation hub where bus stops and a metro station are located in the Kizilay neighborhood, Anadolu said.A bombing that targeted military vehicles in the capital in February killed at least 28 people.
Last week, the U.S. Embassy in Ankara warned of a possible terrorist plot to strike government buildings in the capital's Bahcelievler neighborhood, which is just a few minute's drive from the square where Sunday's explosion occurred.
Personal opinion:
Wounded are always the priority, but if those terrorists keep up like this, there will be no wounded, only dead people. I've seen already 2 terrorist attacks heppening today, and they all cause between 10 and 20, plus the wounded, just keep that in mind.
Vocabulary:
rushed: apresuraron
hub: cubo
embassy: embajada
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/13/world/ankara-park-blast/index.html
Gunmen attack 3 Ivory Coast hotels
Gunmen mounted deadly attacks at three hotels in the beach resort city of Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast, shortly after noon on Sunday, according to the government.French President Francois Hollande, whose nation maintains a close relationship with Ivory Coast, said 12 civilians were killed, including at least one French citizen.
The Ivory Coast government had said 11 people -- including a child -- were victims of the attack, but did not say whether they had been injured or killed.Security forces "neutralized" six attackers, Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko said in a statement on state-run broadcaster RTI1.The statement said security sweeps were continuing.
Video from the scene -- about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the country's largest city, Abidjan -- appeared to show people fleeing from the hotel during the attack.Hollande condemned what he called a "cowardly attack" and pledged French support to find out who was responsible for the attack, which the Ivory Coast government had earlier said targeted two hotels.The U.S. Embassy in Abidjan reported that it had no evidence that U.S. citizens were targeted or harmed.
The French Embassy said it had set up a crisis unit, and asked people to limit travel in the area and stay clear of security forces. The British Foreign Office had similar advice.The identity of the gunmen was not immediately known, although jihadists have targeted hotels in West Africa before.
In the past year, two countries bordering Ivory Coast -- Mali and Burkina Faso -- have witnessed attacks on hotels popular with Westerners.
Ivory Coast itself has not been the target of terror attacks, but the threat of such an incident has risen since the country's support of France's 2013 military intervention targeting Islamic extremists in Mali, the U.S. State Department has said.
A terror group in Mali named Ivory Coast as a potential target for attacks in 2015, the State Department said.
Personal opinion:
Local police still sweeping the area trying to find the suspects who escaped, although they neutralized 6 attackers, including the terrorist who was in the mounted gun. Some people think this is a job made by jihadists because it is said that they usually attack hotels in Africa. Ivory Coast shouldn't be surprised at all, because it is known that they helped France to target some islam extremists in Mali, but for now, let's hope the security to increase, and keep those people away from harm.
Vocabulary:
fleeing: huyendo
support: apoyo
witnessed: presenciado
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/13/africa/ivory-coast-attack/index.html
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