Thursday, May 26, 2011

Giro d'Italia 2011 and Alberto Contador

Giro d'Italia is a cyclist race celebrated in May of every year. This race, with Tour de France and Vuelta a España, is one of the more important of the year. Also, Giro is the first because Tour is in July and Vuelta in September.
I think that this year, Giro is very hard because only five stages are completly plain! The rest of stages are time trial (three), hard mountain (eight) or easy mountain (five). For this, in my opinion, this Giro is for climber cyclists like for example Alberto Contador, who's my favourite cyclist. I think that he will win this Giro because he's the stronger.
As I said, Contador is my favourite cyclist. This is because he is the best climber of all the world. The first time that I saw Alberto Contador cycling on TV was amazing! It was in Vuelta 2008 in Angliru mountain (in Asturias). He was fighting for the first place of classification. Contador climbed up to Angliru's mountain great and won the stage and the first place on classification. Next day, the Vuelta climbed up to Fuentes de Invierno and also was amazing: Contador won again and sentenced Vuelta 2008. After Vuelta 2008, I saw Tour 2009 and again Contador won in Paris. For this I think he is the best climbing.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Iceland Volcano erupts (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_iceland_volcano)

These pice of a news explain the eruption of a Iceland Volcano. The volcano name is Grimsvötn and began to erupt in 21 May 2011. Last year, in Iceland also a vulcano began to erupt (called Eyjafjallajökull). The Eyjafjallajökull eruption caused the close of air space for a week. This provoced the suspension of a lot of things like a MotoGP race in Japan. Also provocate that Barça went to Milano by bus for play the semi-final of Champions League. Other thing that 2010 eruption provocate were that in some places in Europe arrive the ash from Volcano. Some european people breath the toxic ash but that didn't cause any problem. 
The 2011 Iceland eruption, has not caused nothing yet. But it's possible, that ash arrive early to Europe. Experts says that next days ash will arrive to London. At the moment the eruption is more little than 2010 eruption.
I think that Grimsvötn eruption won't be more problematic than Eyjafjallajökull eruption but early we'll can't travel to places like London or Dublin.   


Thursday, May 19, 2011

Twitter and Facebook

Last times, the social networks's importance have increased considerably. The two principal social networks are Twitter and Facebook and they are very different but both are very popular in the people of today. 
Twitter consists in explain what happens or what are you doing in 120 characters. The first idea of Twitter is try that people explain to world (using hadstags) what are they doing. This has been very useful because Twitter provocate things like Egypt revolution or Spanish revolution. Also this social network allow the participation in TV or radio programs. Twitter is similar to a SMS: you send it for someone, it's short and little and it's instant (and the most important it's free!) In Twitter you can follow the 'twitts' of somebody and somebody can follow you.
Facebook is a little bit different than Twitter. Facebook is more complex than Twitter. In Facebook you got a friends, no followers. Also, you can say no to be friends. If you are friend of somebody, you can see his wall, the palce where you write your 'status'. In the wall appears the groups or pages that you are fan. The first idea of Facebook was create a social network in Cambridge but this has been globalized. On Facebook you can upload videos, photos and links about news, music... 
The unique social network I use is Facebook. I don't use Twitter but I tryed in but I don't like it. For my Facebook is very utlity beacuse I can chat with my friends or class mates for ask about homework, for example. Sometimes I upload photos I took in travels or old photos that I found in my house. In Facebook also I can chat with friends that I don't see since months or years. It's is very important for keep the friendship (altrhough in distance)


RAC1

My favourite radio transmitter is RAC1. RAC1 is a catalan radio that began the emissions in May 2000 and belongs to Grup Godó. People like Toni Soler, Toni Clapés, Jordi Basté, Ramón Pellicer, Albert Om or Manel Fuentes have worked in this radio. The principal programs of this radio talk about actuality (or news), sports and humor. Last year RAC1 increase the numbers of audience. Now, this radio is the most listened in Catalunya.
I listen RAC1 since 2006 aproximatly. In these times my favourite programs were Minoria Absoluta directed by Toni Soler, Queco Novell and Manel Lucas and Tu Diràs directed by Jordi Basté.  
Minoria absoluta was a humor program similar to Polonia (TV program in TV3). In fact, Polonia is based in Minoria Absoluta and the actors are the same. Minoria Absoluta program disappered in 2009.
Tu Diràs is a sports program. When I began to listen this program, Tu Dirás was presented by Jordi Basté but in 2008 Basté went to other program and Joan Maria Pou began to direct Tu Diràs.
In 2009 I began to listen other programs of RAC1 like La Competència (subsitute of Minoria Absoluta), Primer Toc or Versió RAC1.
La Competència began on the radio in 2009 and it's directed by Òscar Andreu and Òscar Dalmau. This program it's very fun because they don't imite politicians like Minoria Absoluta, they invent characters as for example Mohamed Jordi or Jean Paul Desgraves. In my opinion, La Competència is the best program on RAC1 now.
Primer toc is very similiar to Tu Diràs but on the afternoon. Tu Diràs is bradcast on night. Primer Toc, directed by Raül Llimós, give us sport news but sometimes are strange or freaky news so is a different sports program. Also they talk about habitual topics on sports programs.
Versió RAC1 is a talk show directed by Toni Clapés. This program is very varied: they do humor, talk about actuality and sports, they do interviews... In my opinion it's an interesing program to listen beacuse you learn a lot and also is fun.

Spanish revolution

In May 2011, a lot of Spanish people has taken the streets to prostest against the system. These people are tried with all politicans of around Spain. Also they think that spanish people should vote for little parties and no vote for the biggest parties (PSOE and PP). They principal argument against spanish politicans is the corruption. PSOE and PP included corrupt politicans in lists. Other argument is the inefficiency against the economic crisis.
In my opinon this spanish revolution is good for our system because the situation in the country is bad. I think that people must show the indignation on the elections. People must go to vote for show to all politicans that they aren't good for us.
There are people of many ideologies in favor of the revolution but they have something in common: the change. Some poltical parties (mainly left parties) have wanted support the revolution but people has said that this revolution is against all currents spanish politicans.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/spanish-revolution-thousands-gather-in-madrids-puerta-del-sol-square/2011/05/18/AFLzpZ6G_blog.html