martes, 15 de junio de 2010

THE PLAY STATION 3


PlayStation 3 (officially named PlayStation 3.4 commonly abbreviated PS3) is the third video game console manufactured by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation brand. The PlayStation 3 is currently competing against Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation consoles.
An important feature that distinguishes the PlayStation 3 from its predecessors is its unified service for online games, the PlayStation Network, which contrasts with Sony's former policy of relying on game developers for online play. Other important features of the console is its robust multimedia capabilities, connectivity with the PlayStation Portable and its principal, optical disc format HD, Blu-ray Disc, as its primary storage medium. The PS3 also supports the Blu-ray Profile 2.0, because it can interact online with extra content for movies and games.
The PlayStation 3 was launched on November 11th, 2006 in Japan, 12 on 17 November 2006 in North America, 13 and March 23, 2007 in Europe and Australia.14 15 Two variants were available at launch: a basic model with 20 GB hard drive SATA 2.5 "and a professional model with 60 GB HDD and several additional features like double the number of USB ports and backward compatibility with games from its predecessor PlayStation 2. The 20 GB model was not marketed in Europe and Australia. Since then, all models have made several revisions to its hardware to reduce its production cost and selling price.

VIDEOGAMES OF PS3

In the North American launch of the console available in 14 titles and end of year three games were released. After the first week of sales, it is confirmed that Resistance: Fall of Man from Insomniac Games is the best selling game in the North American premiere. The game was praised by many gaming websites, including Gamespot and IGN, both awarded to the game as the best title for the Playstation 3 by the year 2006. Some titles did not appear in the launch and were delayed until early 2007, including The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, FEAR and Sonic the Hedgehog. During the Japanese launch, Ridge Racer 7 was the best selling game, while Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire is also sold well, both of which were offered by Namco Bandai.
Other great games are the pro evolution soccer, FIFA, Call of Duty, Virtua Tennis, Grand thef auto ...

THE SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAM.


the national soccer team of Spain is the team of Spanish nationality players representing the Royal Spanish Football Federation in competitions organized by the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA).
The team is known colloquially as "The Spanish Fury", recalling the Sack of Antwerp, episode of military history española.1 is also known by the pseudonym "La Furia Roja," coined by an Italian journalist who referred to him as " Furia Rossa ', 2, or simply as' The Red' 3
The Spanish team has participated in twelve editions of the World Cup and was the host of the 1982 edition. The best result obtained by the Spanish team in this tournament was the fourth place achieved in the World Cup 1950 held in Brazil.
He has also participated in eight editions of the Euro, which first highlighted in the 1964 edition, which was proclaimed as a local champion in the final by defeating the Soviet Union 2-1. In Euro 1984, held in France, reached the second place, losing the final 2-0 to the host country. In Euro 2008, Spain claimed victory in the final to Germany 1-0 and European champion for the second vez.4 This victory in 2008 earned him the lead for the first time FIFA world ranking, being the sixth team that could lead the ranking, and the first who had not won any World Cup hacerlo.5
His biggest success in the Olympics was in 1992 in Barcelona, when he won the gold medal by defeating Poland 3-2 in the final at Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona. In the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, won the silver medal for reaching the final, losing to Camerún.6 also won a silver medal at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.
In other categories, Spain managed to win the World Cup FIFA U-20 played in Nigeria in 1999, defeating 4-0 Japón.Éste has so far been the only title won by the Spanish National fútbol.7 Achievements of the lower ranks of the Spanish football team can be found at: Categories inferior football team of Spain.

THE HIP HOP.


Hip-hop is an art movement that emerged in the United States in the late 1960s in Latin American and African American communities of New York neighborhoods like the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn, where from the beginning stood out the typical characteristics of the origins of hip hop, For example, the music (funk, rap, blues, DJing), dance (hustle, uprocking, lindy hop, popping, locking) and painting (spray, bombing, murals, Political graffiti).

Afrika Bambaataa coined the term hip hop at the time, even years later, KRS ONE, a native of the Bronx, wanted to unify four elements of hip hop: the MCing (rapping), DJing (turntablism), breakdancing (bboying) and graffiti. He did this with the idea of simplifying the definition of hip hop, but for many this may be incomplete, as there other events that would be exempted from this classification, as the beatbox, the murals, beatmakin or production of background music ('beats '), the popping, locking on the uprocking etc. and even other events not related to music, like streetball (street basketball) or Skateboarding.
The union of two elements, the MC (Master of ceremony) and DJ (Disc Jockey), form the musical style of hip hop: rap.
The dance bboying is popularly known as breakdancing. The person who performed this dance is called bboy, Bgirl (fly girl). There is a glaring difference between a bboy and a breaker, the first dances merely cultural issues and provide new elements, innovating and leading the difficulty level to new heights. The breaker or breakdancero people who danced only by profit-making or fashion, is not aware of hip-hop movement generally speaking, not knowing the history and fundamentals that a bboy should know. Although some bboys include full-time work or on TV advertising, but this is justified by the great advances that have given the culture, not only giving exhibitions for people but contribute to creating new styles.
The graffiti is the artistic branch (pictorial) of this culture applied to urban areas. The aesthetics of graffiti has influenced the comic (as in the strips of The Boondocks) and clothing design, album covers and other objects. Those who practice this facet are called writers (writers). There are other styles of graffiti that they need not form part of graffiti in hip hop culture. They are: radical & Political graffiti, street art & graffiti post (ie, graffiti policy) and computer-generated

BIOGRAPHY OF JOAQUIN SOROLLA.


biography of artist Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida Valencia (Valencia, February 27, 1863 - Cercedilla, August 10, 1923) was a Spanish painter and graphic artist. Joaquin Sorolla was one of the most prolific Spanish painter, with more than 2,200 cataloged works


When he was barely 2 years old, parents died in an epidemic Joaquín Sorolla. By being orphaned, her sister Eugenia and he, his aunt Elizabeth, sister of his mother, and her husband, a professional locksmith, picked them up. Over the years tried to teach Joaquin Sorolla, in vain, the trade of locksmith, suddenly realizing that his true vocation was painting. Joaquin Sorolla in 1874 began studying at the Ecole Normale Superieure where he also advised to enroll in night classes in drawing at the School of Craftsmen. In the latter received Joaquin Sorolla in 1879, a box of paints and a diploma as a reward "for their continued application to the figure drawing."Joaquin Sorolla That same year he joined the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos at the same time working in the studio of his uncle, who studied with painters such as Manuel Matoses, Benlliure or Guadalajara.

It was at the Academia de San Carlos where Joaquín Sorolla met another student, Juan Antonio Garcia, brother who later would become his wife, Clotilde García. In 1880 Joaquín Sorolla won a Silver Medal for his work Moro stalking the occasion of his revenge on society's exposure Iris

After completing his training, Joaquin Sorolla began sending their work to provincial competitions and exhibitions of fine arts, like that of Madrid in May 1881, where he presented three marine Valencia who passed almost unnoticed because the paint did not match official of historic and dramatic theme. The following year, Joaquin Sorolla studied the work of Velázquez and others in the Prado Museum. Finally, in 1883, Joaquín Sorolla won a medal in the Regional Exhibition of Valencia and in 1884, rose to glory to get second-class medal at the National Exhibition through his work Defense Artillery Park Monteleón, melodramatic work dark and made expressly for the exhibition, as he told a colleague: "Here, to be released and winning medals, it should be dead." Joaquín Sorolla reaped another big hit in Valencia with his work The pallet crit the War of Independence. Thus, Joaquin Sorolla was pensioned by the Provincial Government of Valencia to travel to Rome where, while working, he met classical and Renaissance art and the great museums, also contacted other artists.

Joaquin Sorolla with his friend the painter Pedro Gil moved to Paris in the first half of 1885, living near Impressionist painting that was in it, back in Rome, variations in theme and style, coming to paint the religious picture The burial of Christ, with which it had the expected success.

Joaquin Sorolla In 1888 he married Clotilde Garcia in Valencia, but would live another year in Italy, this time in the town of Assisi. In 1889 he settled in Madrid and in only five years, Joaquin Sorolla achieved some fame and prestige as a painter. Joaquin Sorolla in 1894 traveled to Paris, where he developed the luminous, which would be characteristic of his work from now. Joaquin Sorolla began painting outdoors, masterfully dominating the light and combining it with everyday scenes and landscapes of Mediterranean life. In works such as The Return of fishing, beach or sad legacy Valencia Joaquin Sorolla described the feeling that produced the vision of the Mediterranean Sea, communicating the splendor of a morning on the beach with vibrant color and loose and vigorous style. With Joaquin Sorolla was sad legacy, in 1900, the Grand Prix at international contest in Paris. Joaquin Sorolla also continued with his work for social criticism that had been reported so successful in recent years with works such as I faced the peix és diuen car (1 895).



At that time, Valencia was named favorite son and meritorious, and was given its name to a street. After many travels in Europe, especially England and France, Joaquin Sorolla an exhibition in Paris with more than five hundred works, which gave international recognition unusual, knowing his paintings throughout Europe and America. Joaquin Sorolla exhibited his work in New York in 1909 and achieved a success without precedent, with works such as Sun afternoon or swimmers, among many others. So did, in 1911, the City of Saint Louis Art Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. In November of that year, Joaquin Sorolla signed an order for the Hispanic Society of America to be conducted by the fourteen murals that decorate the halls of the institution. With this work, carried out between 1913 and 1919 and twelve feet high by seventy feet long, raised an indelible monument to Spain, as it is depicting scenes from various provinces features Spanish and Portuguese. Joaquin Sorolla needed for most of the year 1912 to travel around the country, making sketches and customs and landscapes. In this work are the oil paintings in 1916 dedicated to children and women on the beaches of Valencia, where freedom prevails and the light touch of his land. Some examples are mother and daughter or Fisher Valencia. It also stressed, out of this issue, its immense canvas Vision of Spain.

Another important facet of Joaquin Sorolla was the portraitist of prominent figures as were Juan Ramon Jimenez, King Alfonso XIII, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Ortega y Gasset, etc. Also, in 1914, Joaquín Sorolla academic was appointed and when he finished work for the Hispanic Society, a professor of composition and color in the School of Fine Arts in Madrid. Joaquin Sorolla's painting represented the direct application of the luminous landscape and the figure, thus bringing this trend to society of the time.

In 1920, while Joaquin Sorolla painted a portrait of Mrs. Perez de Ayala in the garden of his home in Madrid, suffered an attack of hemiplegia which shrank drastically their physical and mental. Joaquin Sorolla died at his home in Cercedilla on August 10, 1923.


MIGUEL HERNANDEZ; A GREAT POET.

Miguel Hernández Gilabert (Orihuela, October 30, 1910 - Delhi, March 28, 1942) was a poet and playwright of particular relevance in the twentieth century Spanish literature. Although traditionally it has been framed in the generation of 36, Miguel Hernandez had a greater closeness to the previous generation to the point of being considered by Damaso Alonso as "great follower of the Generation of '27."

"Remembering Miguel Hernández who disappeared in the darkness and remember in broad daylight, it is the duty of Spain, a duty of love. Few poets so generous and bright as the big boy of Orihuela whose statue will rise one day among the blossoms of his sleeping earth. Miguel did not have the overhead light in the South and the poets of Andalusia straight but a light soil, rocky morning, waking thick light honeycomb. With this hard material such as gold, live like blood, drew his poetry durable. And this was the man who at the time of Spain banished the shade! We turn now and forever out of his prison mortal, enlightened by their courage and martyrdom, teach it as an example of pure heart! Give Light! Give it a shock of remembrance, a shovel of clarity that disclosure, an archangel of earthly glory that fell on the night armed with the sword of light!"
By Pablo Neruda

*this is a song dedicated to him, a rapper named nach... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yavTFtiTFVs


SPORTS: THE WORLDCUP.

World Cup 2010 FIFA ™ (FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 ™ in English) is the nineteenth edition of the World Cup. Is being held from June 11 and end on July 11, marking the first time that this tournament is played in Africa and the fifth time in the southern hemisphere.
Two hundred and two hundred four of eight associations attached to the FIFA national registered to participate in the classification process conducted between mid 2008 and late 2009 in order to determine the thirty-two teams in the final phase of torneo.1 The championship will consist of two phases: the first, shall conform eight groups of four teams each advancing to the next round the top two in each group. The sixteen finishers qualifying matches played later on, until the two teams that will compete in the final at the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg.
Previously, the host country hosted the FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 in the cities of Port Elizabeth, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Rustenburg.
in this world cup will see many stars, but that is a favorite selection is that of Spain.

Gastronomy of the Valencian community

The Valencian cuisine is of great variety, although most international dishes are rice, the best known of which is the paella. Rice is the basic ingredient of many typical dishes such as arroz a banda, the Arrós to the quarry, black rice, rice crust, rice soup, rice in the pot, among others.Fideuá Also, the pot and coca pepper and tomato are usually present in its cuisine.
The Valencian Mediterranean climate favors the cultivation of citrus fruits and vegetables, being very important the cultivation of orange, a fruit typical of Valencian agriculture.

Beverages
La horchata de chufa, whose core is Alboraya Traditional production, is a typical drink, accompanied by fartons. It is also traditional liqueur coffee production (typical of Alcoy), and the sweet wine (in the Marina Baja and the Hoya de Buñol). The herbero, herbal liqueur from the Sierra de Mariola.

Sweets
The vast majority of candy has its origins in Arab times, some are now internationally famous, others are important elements of local festive celebrations.
Jijona (Alicante) and Casinos (Valencia) are the traditional manufacturing sites frosting, food widely consumed in Spain at Christmas and throughout the Hispanic world. Currently also made other holiday treats, such as sweets and marzipan.