domingo, 23 de abril de 2017

SUMMARY OF A LOVE FOR LIFE – PENNY HANCOCK



Fanella is an attractive woman who wants to become a mother, but doctors say she cannot have children of her own. Her husband Steven supports her, and they decide to adopt. However, at some point Steven leaves Fanella for another young woman who doesn’t want a baby and he goes to live in london. Fanella shares her history with her best friend Teresa, who has a son who loves her (timothy), she consoles Fanella and her life begins to change.

Teresa recommends teacher´s timothy to give a talk in your school about children's books because she worked in a publishing house, she meets Professor Rod, which is very attractive, has a beautiful smile and dealing with children, but He is married to Leah. Steven calls to tell Fanella to he will marry, she decides  to adopt a child more than ever and after many visits and interviews with social workers,  she manages pre- adopt a five year old girl named Ellie. One day Teresa invited to a dinner party and knows Mark, a handsome and friendly man, the invites her to lunch and start to go out, Mark fall in love to her, but not well liked by his daughter Ellie. Ellie is blond, has blue eyes and a tough temperament, means is your emotional state is changing because she has had a hard life.

Ellie begins to study and her teacher is Rod. Fanella enjoys leaving her daughter with Rod, but one day he is suspended because a child accused him of being beaten by him.

While in your home invest the time to write children's books, he contacted Fanella for her to check, they are found and Fanella likes more him but try to concentrate on your work and in the adoption process.

Ellie was a close friend of Timothy. Unemployment brought Rod marriage problems. He insists on seeing Fanella to finalize the work, but friendship is strong because there is attraction and kiss her. Fanella returns to work and Rod home where he finds his wife with the neighbor, they were kissing, they end up. Mark continues visiting Fanella but she says she is not ready to have something serious with him, he kisses her on the door of his house and Rod casually passing by, he walks away. She thought it was a passing them because he did not call back. Fanella get the legalization of Ellie, they celebrate with a big party, Rob comes as a surprise to the party because Ellie had invited him.

He knows that she and Mark are no longer friends and declares his love, she accepts and tells him that sometimes doctors fall in wrong and she was pregnant. This pleases everyone and this was a happy ending.

EXERCISES PRACTICE








CANADIAN GIRL GUIDES CANCEL US TRAVEL AHEAD OF BAN



Girl Guides of Canada has cancelled all trips to the United States until further notice because it fears problems at the border.

The announcement comes days before President Donald Trump's new US travel ban comes into effect on Thursday.

In a statement, the group said the "ability of all our members to equally enter this country is currently uncertain".

The suspension includes short trips and all travel through US airports.
The group has also scrapped a planned summer camping trip to California in favour of a different destination.

Sarah Kiriliuk, national manager of marketing and communications for the Girl Guides of Canada, said the decision was "absolutely not" political but instead an operational decision made over a "general uncertainty" around Canada-US border travel.
"Girl Guides is a microcosm of Canada," she said.

"We're diverse, we're multicultural. I don't want to speak to any one girl or situation, our main priority was making sure our girls who had been planning trips for up to a year sometimes weren't going to be turned away at the border because of one or more situations that were beyond their control."
Under the new US travel ban, citizens from Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen will not be permitted to enter the US unless they have already been issued valid visas, for a 90-day period.

Some individuals from those countries are exempt from the order, including Green Card holders (legal permanent residents of the US) from the named countries and dual nationals travelling on a passport from a country not on the list.
Ms Kiriliuk could not say how many members might have been barred from US entry under the new temporary ban, if any.

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"At Girl Guides of Canada, we know our members value the safe, inclusive and accepting space that Guiding provides," the statement said.

It went on: "These values are reflected in all we do, including the Girl Guide travel experiences we offer girls and women. This was a very difficult decision to make. We hope that members will appreciate this reflects our commitment to inclusivity and equal opportunities for all girls and women."

The Girl Guides of Canada has chapters in provinces across the country and some 70,000 members and 20,000 adult female volunteers.

Any US visits already booked and paid for by regional Girl Guide chapters prior to the announcement would be reviewed on a "case-by-case" basis, Ms Kiriliuk said.

Some Canadian schools have also cancelled trips to the US in the wake of the travel ban, including the Greater Essex County District School Board in south-western Ontario.

According to figures provided by US Customs and Border Protection, the number of people being denied entry at the Canada-US boundary is roughly in line with previous years.

But confusion during the first few days of the previous US travel ban, which was eventually blocked by a federal court, and a series of recent incidents of Canadians going public with their experience being turned away at the border has led to questions over whether people are facing tougher measures when entering the US.

sábado, 22 de abril de 2017

BIOGRAPHY OF NIKOLA TESLA


(Smiljan, present Croatia, 1856 - New York, 1943) American physicist of Serbian origin. He studied at the universities of Graz (Austria) and Prague. After having worked in several electrical industries in Paris and Budapest, he moved to the United States (1884), where he worked under Thomas A. Edison, then a supporter of the continuous electric current.

Tesla founded an electrotechnical research laboratory in New York, where he discovered the principle of the rotating magnetic field and polyphase AC systems. It created the first electric induction motor of alternating current and many other electrical devices such as the Tesla assembly, a transformer of radiofrequency in which primary and secondary are tuned, useful when preselecting the entrance of a radioelectric receiver. He predicted the possibility of wireless communications ahead of the studies carried out by Marconi, and in his honor tesla is called the unit of measurement of magnetic flux intensity in the international system.


His inventions and patents followed each other with some speed. In 1887, and as a result of John Hopkinson's discovery in 1880, that three alternating and out-of-phase currents can be translated more simply than a normal alternating current, Tesla invented the three-phase induction motor.



In that motor the three phases act on the armature in a way that it is obtained that it turns when generating a rotating magnetic field. However, the rotor was moving with a certain delay with respect to the frequency of the current. Based on this invention, the Swedish Ernst Danielson invented the synchronous motor in 1902, in which he replaced the non-magnetic armature material with a permanent magnet or electromagnet, which allowed him to obtain a motor that rotated with a number of Revolutions per minute equal to the frequency of the current.

In 1891 Tesla invented the coil that bears his name, which consists of a transformer consisting of an air nucleus and with primary and secondary coils in parallel resonance. With this coil it was able to create a field of high voltage and high frequency. Two years later he discovered the phenomenon of wave character called "Tesla light" in alternating currents of high voltage and high frequency; Through the study of these currents, observed that single-pole incandescent lamps emit light when approached to a conductor through which electric current passes, and that empty glass tubes sparkle even if they lack an electrode if they are connected by One of its ends and approaches the other to a conductor through which high-frequency current flows. He also realized that the human body is capable of conducting these high frequency currents without experiencing any damage.

RELIGION AND BABIES



The links between religion and sexuality. This is indeed important, because everyone understands that there is some sort of limit on how many people we can be on this planet. And there are some people who say that the world population is growing like this — three billion in 1960, seven billion just last year — and it will continue to grow because there are religions that stop women from having few babies, and it may continue like this.

Today in the 2000, there's almost two billion babies. What has happened since, and what do the experts predict will happen with the number of children during this century?


This is a quiz. What do you think? Do you think it will decrease to one billion? Will it remain the same and be two billion by the end of the century? Will the number of children increase each year up to 15 years, or will it continue in the same fast rate and be four billion children up there?


But now, what does religion have to do with it? When you want to classify religion, it's more difficult than you think. You go to Wikipedia and the first map you find is this. It divides the world into Abrahamic religions and Eastern religion, but that's not detailed enough. So we went on and we looked in Wikipedia, we found this map. But that subdivides Christianity, Islam and Buddhism into many subgroups, which was too detailed.


In 1960, you had to be a rich Christian to have few babies. The exception was Japan. Japan here was regarded as an exception. Otherwise it was only Christian countries. But there was also many Christian countries that had six to seven babies per woman. But they were in Latin America or they were in Africa. And countries with Islam as the majority religion, all of them almost had six to seven children per woman, irregardless of the income level. And all the Eastern religions except Japan had the same level.


Now let's see what has happened in the world. I start the world, and here we go. Now 1962 — can you see they're getting a little richer, but the number of babies per woman is falling? Look at China. They're falling fairly fast. And all of the Muslim majority countries across the income are coming down, as do the Christian majority countries in the middle income range. And when we enter into this century, you'll find more than half of mankind down here. And by 2010, we are actually 80 percent of humans who live in countries with about two children per woman.


It's a quite amazing development which has happened. And these are countries from United States here, with $40,000 per capita, France, Russia, Iran, Mexico, Turkey, Algeria, Indonesia, India and all the way to Bangladesh and Vietnam, which has less than five percent of the income per person of the United States and the same amount of babies per woman.