Botany trips

I have not written in a while .... the last weekends we went out to the field with the guys from botany class.

Actually it has been a satisfying experience to go out on the field with them, and share my little knowledge.

Well, we traveled to Guajalito, a reserve located in the southern province of Pichincha. Guajalito comprises about 400 hectares of cloud forest. This ecosystem is perfect to studying plants and especially those that are closely related to water. As is the case of bryophytes (liverworts, hornworts and mosses)

The boys were very enterprising and their behavior was excellent, they listened to lectures that were given. Not only about plants but also about bats and mammals in general.


We walked in the wood to, and we saw ferns 15m high. The boys also learned basic things like pressing plants and collection of bats and insects. We show also some families, genera and species of plants. Actually the basics things that a botanist and biologist in training should know.

Every day the boys were preparing food for all, and i have to say, this moments are actually very pleasant because we learn to live with the rest of the teammates.

These have been the kind of activities that I have been doing. I hope that people who are not biologists in this class will learn something from our scientific life. I like talking about my career.

House music

A short summary of house music by Reinaldo 
The house is a style of electronic music created in Chicago in the 80s. The term "house" was created because many DJ created this genre at home. This is an evolution of disco, it was taking territory over time. In the early 80s the house was targeted for Blacks and gays for his rhythmic style and in the 90s the house was already recognized worldwide and it mix with various genres like pop.
The house is a style of dance fast music, generally ranging between 118 and 135 bpm. The house can be combined with any style and you can use any sound. The common element of house is the use of a prominent kick drum on each beat. House sounds are characterized by  it  repeated and with it good sound. In the world of house there many  genres like:
Acid house
Deep house
Electro house
Euro house
Latin house
Minimal house/Microhouse
Progressive house
Tribal house
Tech house

These days there are a lot of house music but in my opinion the house is losing the sense and feeling. Every time it is easier to do this kind of music, as the house is set up with technology. Many people are dedicated to making this genre but few people do it with passion and style. The house is on the edge of success. This worries me that this genre will lose its originality. The progressive house and electro house are a good example of loss of identity.

Folklore group of PUCE by Grace Ribadeneira

OUR HISTORY

The folk group formed on March 22, 2010, thanks to the great idea of our director Jeni Arroyo Culture departement PUCE.The director and choreographer is the Professor René Mena. At the moment the group consists of 11 dancers and around 35 applicants. The show is presented by our group half an hour, in which you can see and be part of magnificent choreography such as El Coraza, Los Montubios, San Pedro amongst other things with which we want to present the big ethnic and cultural divesidad having our dear country.

  

OUR DANCERS

The dancers who are part of the group are students from different faculties of PUCE, but we share the same liking ... The passion for folklore.

Well, Now let's talk a little more about These dancers ...!!!

Cynthi and Damian...!!!

One of the four couple of dancers having the group ... A Historian and a Hotel Administrator are the perfect complement at the time to dance. A couple to be admired...!!!

Andy and Pablo...!!!

This social communicator and the system engineer to form a dynamic duo when dancing, are what give the joy in each of the choreography, with its joy we can infect others in the same day when we had a little gray .

Paty and Don Pi...!!!

This pair of dancers are an example of that when you want something you can do with desire and effort. Start from scratch and now has one of the best dancers in the group.
With them clearly applies the phrase WANT IS POWER.

Grace and Marlon...!!!

And leave us at the end, we are Marlon and I ... a pair of dancers a little peculiar because I never imagined I would dance with him because I had to tell each choreography step by step, until today is to become a great dancer ... I love to dance with him

Vale, Rossem and Aidita...!!!

Three spectacular dancers and great friends, they do not need a dancing partner to dance excellent.

NOW A BIT OF THE CHOREOGRAPHIES…!!!

El Coraza...!!!

Otavalo is choreography, which represents Coraza Party which is one of the most important characters that make up the procession of this festival, which take their name exactly as it is celebrated in the days of Easter and in August. 

Pasacalle...!!!

This choreography is a sort of stomping live, held his arms up, bent and fists clenched, the steps forward and backward and right turns and left.

Caposhca and Tonada...!!!

These choreographies are mestizos rhythms that dance in the center of the country

Montubios...!!!

It is a rhythm of the coast of Ecuador its own provinces of Guayas and Manabí.

San Pedro...!!!

This choreography represents the festivity dedicated to San Pedro and in turn, to the celebration of Inti Raymi is harvest time and thanks to the sun and the fertility of the Pacha Mama.

Well ... This is my Group of Folklore ...!!!

11/9 by Emilio

The attacks of 11 September 2001 were a series of terrorist attacks that day committed suicide in the United States by members of Al Qaeda jihadist network by hijacking airliners to be hit several targets and killed nearly 3,000 people and wounding 6,000, and the destruction of the World Trade Center environment in New York and serious damage to the Pentagon, in the State of Virginia, being the episode that preceded the war in Afghanistan and the adoption by the U.S. government and its allies in the policy called War on Terror.
The attacks were committed by nineteen members of Al-Qaeda jihadist network, divided into four groups of hijackers, each with a terrorist pilot in charge of flying the plane once reduced and the cabin crew. The planes of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines 175, were the first to be kidnapped, both crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the first into the north tower and the second against South shortly after, causing both skyscrapers to collapse in the next two hours.
The third hijacked plane belonged to American Airlines Flight 77 and was used to being hit against one of the walls of the Pentagon in Virginia. The fourth plane, belonging to United Airlines Flight 93, did not reach any goal to be crashed in an open field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after losing control in the cabin as a result of the confrontation of the passengers and crew with the terrorist.
The attacks left more than 6,000 injured, the death of 2,973 people and the disappearance of others resulting 24.4 also the 19 terrorists dead.
The attacks, which were immediately condemned as horrendous terrorist attacks by the Security Council of the UN, is characterized by the use of commercial airliners as weapons, causing widespread fear reaction worldwide and particularly in Western countries, which altered policies since international air safety.

taken: http://www.proyectosalonhogar.com/11_septiembre/indice.htm 

Lady Gaga y Belen Chediak

Lady Gaga

She is an American songwriter and singer better known as Lady Gaga. Her real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta She was born on March 28, 1986. She was born and raised in New York; she lived in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where she found inspiration for some of her songs. She attended to the Convent of the Sacred Heart, where she felt she didn’t fit. She started to play the piano when she was 4 years-old. Later on she assisted to the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, before withdrawing to focus on her musical career. She performed in the rock music scene of Manhattan´s Lower East Side. Later, she was employed as a songwriter, but during this, her vocal abilities captured the attention of Akon.

In 2008, Lady Gaga recorded her first album “The Fame”, some of the worldwide hits were “Just Dance” and “Poker Face”. After a year she encouraged her second album “The Fame Monster” with songs like “Bad Romance”, “Alejandro” and “Telephone”. She went in a tour which was one of the highest-grossing concert tours. In 2011 she released her new album “Born This Way” which topped the major charts with singles such as “Judas” and “Born This Way”.

Lady Gaga is a unique singer because of her fashion and attitude. The originality in her songs, music and videos make her an incredible singer and songwriter.  She has sold an estimated 23 million albums and 64 million singles worldwide. Lady Gaga is a best-selling artist.

She professes that she is "liberating" herself by constantly reinventing her sound and image, that’s why she is always changing her style and appearance by using different dresses and costumes in performances. Her videos are considered small films, she uses a lot of resources such as dancers, different costumes and make up.

She has becoming too famous in a short time; her fans call her “Mother Monster”, while she refers to them as “Little Monsters”. Lady Gaga has also contributed in many foundations such as HIV and AIDS, and some others. She is a worldwide gay icon, too. I think Lady Gaga is an awesome singer as a songwriter, the lyrics and music are very catchy and meaningfull.

Professional Wrestling by Cristian

Professional wrestlingIt is a form of sports entertainment that combines combat disciplines and arts based on them to represent default melee.Its origins date back to the carnival and music halls of the nineteenth century, which were held demonstrations of fitness and strength. Modern professional wrestling usually has aerobatics and several styles of martial arts. For most of the century, it was said that the competition was completely real.Professional wrestling is especially popular in Japan, United States, and Mexico. Since its inception in these countries, wrestling has evolved differently in each.The senior figures of professional wrestling become celebrities or popular icons. Although wrestling began with small acts in circuses and carnivals, today it is an industry that generates billions of dollars. Revenues come from ticket sales, television, merchandising and more. Recently, webcasting and other methods are also used. Also, wrestling pioneered making the pay-per-view source. Events like WrestleMania, Bound for Glory and Royal Rumble are the biggest PPV of each year.Currently, the largest professional wrestling is the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), based in the United States. This company is famous for having absorbed smaller companies, like the extinct World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling.

RulesIn professional wrestling there are several ways to win, such as Pinfall, Surrender, Disqualification, 10 KO or Account Outside the ring (in Japan and Mexico is 20). In the U.S. and Japan is one fall, which may be with or without time limit. In Mexico it is to win two of three falls with no time limit.



triple H is my favorite wrestler

WWEThe World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE simply is wrestling association better known worldwide. It has a great reputation because of their years of experience and the "superstars" who have gone through it. The current owner of this company is Vincent Kennedy McMahon.The WWE is divided into two main programs; Raw Supershow and SmackDown!, Which are transmitted Monday and Friday, respectively. Furthermore the currently transmitted WWE PPV events 12 that are transmitted through the system Pay Per View, approximately once a month.
WWE currently has 6 championships. (WWE Championship, U.S. Championship, Divas Championship, World Heavyweight Championship, Intercontinental Championship, WWE Tag Team Championship).

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Free Topic by Rafael Suarez

Ray Charles

He was a famous  R&B and gospel musician. But the difference between him and other musician is that he was blind. He was 7 years old when he had lost his sight because of a glaucoma, but there are not proves of it.

He was born in September 23 of 1930 in Albany, Ga. He learned to read and write music in Braille at St. Augustine School for the Deaf and the Blind. The difference with other kids is that blind people have to read, then memorize what they read to be able to play.


Something that mark his life was the dead of his younger brother drowned when Charles was 5, he will feel guilty because of his dead.

Charles lived in a very poor family, at the age of 15 his mother died and he decide to start his musical career. Over the years Ray Charles developed his own unique sound, a blend of blues, R&B and gospel. Charle's musical genius was noticed early and he had several record company contracts.

Being born into the segregated south. Charles was aware of the evil of racial injustice. He raise money to fight racial injustice. Charles did this for Martin Luther King Jr. and other groups around the world.

But Charles got involved in the world of drugs. He became an addict in heroine, but with the time and almost at the end of his life he could stopped it.

Charles won nine of his 12 Grammy Awards, winning his last Grammy in 1993 for Best R&B Male Vocal Performance, "A Song For You." He achieve lots of prizes, but the biggest think he conquer is peoples love for him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRgWBN8yt_E&feature=related

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

Dogma’s film by Andrea Cardenas

It came in 95, that is the reason of the name:Dogma95, created by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg both of Danish origin. The idea of ​​this movement is to restore the purity of the films, leaving out several of the positions of contemporary cinema and especially the movies of Hollywood. The presentation of these films should be naturally, only care about the plot and character development, based on fully strict rules, also called "Vows of Chastity".

The vows of chastity are:

1. The filming must be done on location. You can decorate or create a "set". If an item or object is necessary for the development of the story, look for a location where objects are necessary.

2. Sound can’t be mixed separately from the images or vice versa (the music should not be used, unless this is recorded in the same place where the scene is being shot).

3. Be shot handheld. Any movement or immobility because the hand is permitted. (The film must not take place where the camera, filming must take place where the film takes place).

4. The film must be in color. Special or artificial light is not permitted (if not enough light to shoot a particular scene, it must be deleted or, in fact, you can plug a single focus to the camera).

5. Banning optical effects and filters.

6. The film can not have an action or surface development (can not have guns or crimes occur in the story).

7. Prohibits the temporal or spatial alignment. (This is to corroborate that the film takes place here and now).

8. Not accepted genre films.

9. The format of the film should be 35 mm.

10. The director must not appear in the credits.

From now on I promise as a director not exert any personal taste. I'm not an artist. From now on I promise not to create a "work", as I believe that the time and now are more important than the whole product. My absolute goal is to force the truth of my characters. I promise to do so at all costs within my means and at the expense of any aesthetic taste.

So far, there are about 170 films recognized as part of the Dogma 95, belonging to nations such as Italy, Spain, Hungary, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, among other countries. Dogma films, are characterized by a certificate awarded by the authenticity of the project and a registration number.

Refreshing music by Stephanie Saavedra

I love music , but the thing is that I haven’t found the truly  Music genre that could full feel my sense and my soul , I had proved many genres and I had liked a lot of them ,and hated some others but the things is that I wanted  something more , something special ,and I think I had found it . I heard this musician’s songs by accident and  I really like it ,it is refreshing and relaxed .May be some people would think that his music is really slow or boring but I think that it is cool because I see it as a truly reflex of his thoughts. The simply melody and the deep message of his lyrics make his artistic work something really easy to enjoy and  it is something you could  identify with.

And the name of this talented artist is Jack Johnson. He is an American folk rock singer-songwriter, surfer and musician known for his work in the soft rock and acoustic genres. He is also known for organizing an annual event, the Kōkua Festival. My favorite songs are  "Upside Down"; "Sitting, Waiting, Wishing"; "If I Had Eyes"; "You and Your Heart"; "Banana Pancakes" and "Better Together". I have to say that the song I like most is “You and your Heart”. As surfer he became really successful until he suffered an accident. Now he had a great live doing what he   enjoys  and with the people he loves .He is married with a colleague from his University and he has three  children.

His lyrics don’t refer just about love , but about sadness ,happiness  and life in all its full expression. There are few songs that could make someone smiles and more strange than that there are songs that can make you laugh , one of this songs is “At or with me “ ,you have to watch the video if you want to enjoy it at all.

Here is a part of one  my favorites songs  :

Love is the answer at least for most of the questions in my heart


Like why are we here? And where do we go? And how come it’s so hard?


It’s not always easy and sometimes life can be deceiving


I’ll tell you one thing, it’s always better when we’re together