The Floyd phenomenon

This article is about The Pink Floyd and their phenomenon.
Two of the founding members, Syd Barrett and Roger Wright, are dead so two new members entered in the band. Although this, The Pink Floyd went on tour and the tickets were sold out within hours.
Jill Furmanovsky, the official photographer of the Dark Side of the Moon tour, get to see the band close up and said that they were very different from the rest of the rock world: there were not record company people backstage, only close friends or the people working, they weren't stoned all the time and were sports fanatics, in fact, if the Match of the Day was on, they'd try to finish concerts in time to watch it.
Colin Wilson said that nowadays there's a lot more throwaway stuff, artist do music at home in a day and nudge everything into being in pitch and release it the day after. Instead, in the '70s they spend a lot of time in studios with professional engineers and it stood the test of time. Today everything's been done so it's harder for bands to create something original. 

Languages☺

There are between 6000 and 7000 languages in the world - spoken by six billion people divided into 189 independent states. Cuneiform is the first form of written languages and it was used for over 3000 years.
The sign languages were invented by Abbé Charles-Michel de l'Épée, the first person who recognized the importance for the instruction of deaf children. Sign languages aren't universal because there are more than one sign language in a country, just as for oral languages. There are two sign languages in Belgium or in Spain.
Russia has by far the highest number of languages spoken on its territory: from 130 to 200 depending on the criteria.
The active vocabulary of a person can reach some 50,000 words; the words they know but do not use - their passive vocabulary - is somewhat larger.
The families in Europe with the most speakers are the Germanic, Romance and Slavic.
Germanic: Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish
Romance: Romanian, Occitan, French, Sardinian 

Slavic: Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Polish, Serbian and Czech.
In daily there are over 200 European languages.

The Celts

From around 750 BC to 12 BC, the Celts were the most powerful people in central and northern Europe. 
People said that they were tall, with muscles, with blond hair and they had mustaches that covered their mouth. The Celts believed in many gods and goddesses, in fact they were over 400. Many gods had no names and their lived in springs and woods. This population believed also that the human soul had an afterlife, so when a person died they were buried with many things. Warriors were often buried with a hamlet, a sword.
They lived in scattered villages. The walls of their houses were made from local material and the houses had no windows, but there was a hole in the roof for escaping the smoke.

The Lion and The Mouse

A Lion was sleeping peacefully when he was woken by something running up and down his back and over his face. Pretending to be still asleep, the Lion slowly opened one eye and saw that it was a little Mouse. With lightening speed the Lion reached out and caught the little Mouse in one of his large paws. He dangled it by its tail and roared:
-"I'm the King of Beasts! You'll pay with your life for showing me such disrespect!"
The Lion held the little Mouse over his huge open jaws and prepared to swallow it.
-"Please, please don't eat me, Mr King of Beats, Sir." squeaked the Mouse "if you forgive me this time and let me go I'll never, never forget it."
-"I may be able to do you a good turn in the future to repay your kindness" it squeaked.
-"You, do me a favor!" roared the Lion with laughter "that is the funniest thing I've ever heard."
Still laughing, the Lion put the Mouse down on the ground and said:
-"You've made me laugh so much I can't eat you now. Go on, off you go before I change my mind."
The little Mouse scurried away as fast as its little legs could go.
Not long after this the Lion was caught in a trap by some hunters. They tied him to a tree with a rope while they went to get their wagon. The little Mouse was nearby and came when he heard the mighty Lion's roar for help. The Mouse gnawed the rope with his sharp teeth and set the Lion free, and after that said:
-"I know you didn't believe me, but I told you I could help you one day" squeaked the little Mouse "even a little mouse like me can help someone as big and strong as you"
-"Thank you my little friend. I won't forget that lesson" said the Lion as he ran away before the hunters returned.

The Story of Gelert

This story is about a prince called Llywelyn that had a dog who was his best friend, his name was Gelert. Llywelyn also had a son, but his wife died, so he promised her top grow up the baby.

Many years ago, in the county of Gwynedd, lived a brave and well respected prince called Llewelyn. This prince loved to hunt and his favourite hunting dog was called Gelert. Gelert accompanied him everywhere and was always to be found at the head of the pack. This prince had a son, a babe whose mother had died in childbirth. Llewelyn had loved his wife dearly and been broken hearted by her death. His only consolation had been his son. On her death-bed, Llewelyn had promised his wife that he would cherish the boy and this he did.
One day, Llewelyn went out hunting. The baby lay fast asleep in his cradle and the day was cold and damp but the fire was lit in the chimney. The prince decided to leave his loyal hound, Gelert to protect the homestead. As he left he gently stroked the dog’s huge and said to him to take care of the baby. But as he entered the room he beheld a terrible sight. The baby’s cradle was lay empty on the floor. Gelert, and everything else in the room, was covered by blood. The dog looked exhausted but wagged his tail weakly. Next, Llywelyn thought that Gelert killed his son so he plunged his dagger into dog's side. After that, he found a died wolf on the floor and picked the baby who was safe thanks to Gelert. Filled with remorse, Llelwelyn knelt and gently stroked his faithful friend and Gelert’s tail thumped the ground slowly for the last time. Gelert’s body was buried outside the castle walls, close to the river.

My Multiple Intelligence

David Letterman's retirement from the Late Show

David Letterman is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer and actor. He hosted a late night television talk show for 33 years, beginning with the February 1, 1982 debut of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC, and ending with the May 20, 2015 broadcast of the Late Show with David Letterman on CBS. Here you can see the video of his retirement:

My favorite TV series☺

My favorite TV series is 'Skins', a British teen drama that followed the lives of a group of teenagers in Bristol. They are trying to grow up and find love and happiness, despite questionable parenting and teachers who more want to be friends rather than authority figures. This series is divided in three generations.

Seasons 1 and 2
This seasons are about the first generation.
My favorite characters are Tony Stonem, an attractive, intelligent and popular boy that manipulate everyone who's around him, and Cassie Ainsworth, an eccentric girl who suffers from an eating disorder.

Seasons 3 and 4
This seasons are about the second generation.
My favorite characters are Effy Stonem, Tony's sister, she's pretty and popular but also quiet and distant, and James Cook, charismatic and sociable, also boisterous and not afraid of authority.

Seasons 5 and 6 
This seasons are about the third generation.
My favorite characters are Franky Fitzgerald, an intelligent and creative girl, seen by other as strange, largely due to her androgynous dress sense, and Rich Hardbeck, he immerses himself in heavy metal subculture and uses musical elitism as a means to cover up his own shyness when, among other things, interacting with girls.

My personal magazine 2014/15

My personal magazine

Publish at Calameo

PC - Political Correctness

Political Correctness means using words or behavior which will not offend any group of people. Most people think it is important for everyone to be treated equally, fairly and with dignity. Some words have been used for a long time that are unkind to some people. Sometimes these words have now been replaced by other words that are not offensive. Such words are described as politically correct. The term is often used in a mocking sense when attempts at avoiding offense are seen to go too far.

Political correctness- or PC for short - is the latest trend in United States in linguistic etiquette. There are a lot of inoffensive terms in THE OFFICIAL POLITICALLY CORRECT DICTIONARY AND HANDBOOK. 

Here you have some examples:

Politically correct = "culturally sensitive" or "appropriately inclusive"
Artificial/synthetic = "man-made"

Himself/herself = "coself'' - gender-neutral substitute
AIDS victim = "person living with AIDS" or "PLA/PLWA" in short

Prostitutes = "sex workers"
Wives = "domestic incarceration survivors"
Fat people = "horizontally challenged"
Bald men = "hair disadvantaged"

Bespectacled = "optically challenged"
Man and woman = "melanin impoverished human animals"
Blacks = African-Americans or Caribbean-Americans

Pregnant woman = "parasitically oppressed"
Dead = "living impaired"
Homeless = "residentially flexible"

Poor = "financially inept"

The Story of Chocolate

Chocolate grows on trees. 
To make chocolate, cocoa farmers crack open the pods, scoop out the seeds, ferment them and dry them. The cocoa "beans" that form the basis of chocolate are actually seeds from the fruit of the cacao tree, which grows near the Equator. The seeds grow inside a pod-like fruit and are covered with white pulp. The beans are shipped to factories, where manufacturers inspect and clean them, then roast and grind them into a paste called chocolate liquor. More pressing, rolling, mixing with sugar and other ingredients, and heating and cooling yields delicious chocolate.
The cacao bean begins life primarily in remote areas of West Africa, Southeast Asia and Central and South America. These delicate, flower-covered trees need much tending and, when farmed using sustainable methods, grow in harmony in tropical forests beneath other cash crops such as bananas, rubber or hardwood trees. Grown on small family farms, the beans leave cocoa farms by hand, in carts, on donkeys or rugged trucks to be sold to a local buyer and then to processors abroad.

Once in the factory, they are ground, pressed, heated and stirred to create luxurious chocolate.

Humans’ love affair with chocolate began at least 4,000 years ago in Mesoamerica, in present-day southern Mexico and Central America, where cacao grew wild. When the Olmecs unlocked the secret of how to eat this better seed, they launched an enduring phenomenon.

The making of chocolate has evolved into an industry so large that 40 to 50 million people depend on cocoa for their livelihoods.

Random acts of kindness☺

A random act of kindness is a selfless act performed by a person or people wishing either to assist or to cheer up an individual person or people. Random acts of kindness are a means by which we make a deliberate attempt to brighten another person's day by doing something thoughtful, nice, and caring. Kindness is a way of showing others that they count and that, even in the face of hostility and selfishness, you're making a stand for kindness. Originally associated with Anne Herbert, who is said to have once written "Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty" on a place mat in a restaurant, this concept has become an organized celebration through various events around the world, as well as referring to a general call to action in the name of kindness. And you don't need to wait for someone else to initiate a day or week of celebrations to practice random acts of kindness; you can put them into play any time you like!
Here are some suggestions for encouraging others with your random acts of kindness:
1. Be kind
2. Be thoughtful
3. Use your manners as a form of kindness

4. Give out compliments generously

5. Think about people who quietly make a difference to your community and thank them
6. Cheer up the lonely
7. Volunteer
8. Shower a coworker with kindness
9. Share a little wealth around

10. Give your family a break
11. Hold a friend's night-in
12. Write some thoughts on hope and leave it somewhere for a stranger to find

13. Forgive somebody
14. Share a smile

15. Expect nothing  

SO.. BE KIND☺

The Black History Month - Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights". She was born on February 4, 1913 and on December 1, 1955 she was refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end segregation. Rosa's childhood brought her early experiences r
acial discrimination and activism for racial equality. After her parents separated, Rosa's mother moved the family to Pine Level in Alabama to live with her parents - both former slaves and strong advocates for racial equality. In 1932, at age 19, Rosa met and married Raymond Parks, a barber and an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. With Raymond's support, Rosa earned her high school degree in 1933. She soon became actively involved in civil rights issues by joining the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP in 1943, serving as the chapter's youth leader as well as secretary to NAACP President E.D. Nixon—a post she held until 1957. The Montgomery City Code required that all public transportation be segregated and that bus drivers had the "powers of a police officer of the city while in actual charge of any bus for the purposes of carrying out the provisions" of the code. While operating a bus, drivers were required to provide separate, but equal accommodations for white and black passengers by assigning seats. This was accomplished with a line roughly in the middle of the bus separating white passengers in the front of the bus and African-American passengers in the back.
When an African-American passenger boarded the bus, they had to get on at the front to pay their fare and then get off and re-board the bus at the back door. When the seats in the front of the bus filled up and more white passengers got on, the bus driver would move back the sign separating black and white passengers and, if necessary, ask black passengers give up their seat. On December 1, 1955, after a long day's work at a Montgomery department store, where she worked as a seamstress, Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus for home. She took a seat in the first of several rows designated for "colored" passengers. Though the city's bus ordinance did give drivers the authority to assign seats, it didn't specifically give them the authority to demand a passenger to give up a seat to anyone (regardless of color). However, Montgomery bus drivers had adopted the custom of requiring black passengers to give up their seats to white passengers, when no other seats were available. If the black passenger protested, the bus driver had the authority to refuse service and could call the police to have them removed.
As the bus Rosa was riding continued on its route, it began to fill with white passengers. Eventually, the bus was full and the driver noticed that several white passengers were standing in the aisle. He stopped the bus and moved the sign separating the two sections back one row and asked four black passengers to give up their seats. Three complied, but Rosa refused and remained seated. The driver demanded, "Why don't you stand up?" to which Rosa replied, "I don't think I should have to stand up." The driver called the police and had her arrested. Later, Rosa recalled that her refusal wasn't because she was physically tired, but that she was tired of giving in.
The police arrested Rosa at the scene and charged her with violation of Chapter 6, Section 11, of the Montgomery City Code. She was taken to police headquarters, where, later that night, she was released on bail.

 

New Year's Resolutions

Popular New Year's Revolutions        

• Lose weight
• Volunteer to help others
• Quit smoking
• Get a better education
• Get a better job
• Save money
• Get fit
• Eat heathly food
• Manage stress
• Manage debt
• Take a trip 
• Reduce, reuse and recycle
• Drink less alcohol 

My New Year's Revolutions
It's a new year and it's time to start again. Stop thinking about what I'm going to do and start doing it. It's time to live my life in the way I want and be who I am. Forget what happened in 2014 and make this year better.

• Lose weight
• Save money
• Get fit regular
• Eat heathly food
• Study more
• Drink more water
• Read all books I want to read
• Help others
• Learn something new
• Travel and discover
• Be more gentily with others
• Be ALWAYS myself
• Go to concerts of my favorite bands