MERRY CHRISTMAS

Hello people!

Today I'm going to explain the christmas of different places.
In France, they celebrated in Christmas Eve, where French children leave their shoes at the fireplace for Santa Claus to fill them with gifts. In the next morning they discover that in addition they have a lot of sweets, fruits and presents. In churches they make plays of the birth of Christ, with actress and puppets.

In Italy, they celebrate the festivals of Merry Christmas eight days before, and they continue with the magithey. Before  Christmas Eve they read a text and then they finish the day with a big dinner with a cake called "panettone" as a dessert. In the houses they put a thing called "Urna del Destino" and gifts are randomly removed. At night they put candels around the birth, they say prayers and the childs recite some poems. And in the 6th of January, one witch leave gifts to children who have been good and coal to bad childs like the Olentzero and Three Magi here.

In USA, the Christmas are different between some states, because the inhabitants of each country have different customs. In Pennsylvania, the Moravians construct a landscape called "putz" under the Christams tree, while the germans receive gifts for the Belsnickle, and struck with his rod if they behaviour has been bad. In the South, they shoot firearms to greet the distant neighbors. In Alaska they carry for the door to door one small star on the top of a pole, which follows "los hombres de Herodes" to caught. In the door of tropical houses they put tropical pineapple, symbol of hospitality.

Canada's Christmas and USA's Christmas are similar although, in some provinces they have different customs. The skimos celebrate a big winter festival called "Sinck Tuck" which consisted in a festival with a lot of dances and gifts; in the Labrador, they kept turnis since summer to give them to children. And in Nova Scotia, in all the mornings of Christmas they sing Breton and Basque songs and carols.

In the Basque Country, I hope that everybody knows how are Christams celebrate. At Christmas Eve and Christmas Day the all families meet in one house and they eat a lot of things, and in Christmas Eve the Olentzero came and give to childs a lot of presents, like the Three Magic in 5th of January.

As you can see there are a lot of different ways of celebrating Christmas, depending on the country. In my opinion the best Christmas are held in the Basque Country.

I WISH YOU ALL A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

TWO INVENTIONS

What are the two inventions that have contributed most to make our lives easier?




Hello people!

Today I am going to speak about two inventions that have contributed most to make our lives easier.




For me the light bulb and the computer are the two most important inventions of my life.




The Light bulb: We all know that Thomas Edison was the inventor of a light bulb in 1879 but the first electric light was made in 1800 by Humphry Davy.

I choose the light bulb because without it we could not see when it's night, or we could not read. Also now use for work in school with the electrified. And for me was very interesting to work with electrified. Neither exist the flashlight. And the nights would be boring because we couldn`t see anything.




There are diferent types of light bulbs like:

-Electrical terms: the important electrical operating characteristics of a light are yoltage and wattage.

-Incandescent lamps: these are often called General Lighting Service lamps and are the least efficient. the will produce about 15 lumes of light for every watt of electricity used.

-Compact Fluorescent Lamps: these lamps will produce the same light as a incandescent lamp but require only 20% of the power.

-Compact Fluorescent wattage/Incandescent wattage: the twiat bulbs are more efficient and smaller than the u shaped bulbs and will fit into any light that uses an incandescent bulb.

-Halogen bulbs: these lamp will produce about 35 lumens per watt.

-Fluorescent tubes: these lamps are very efficient and it produce about 70 lumens per watt, and they have a life of about 10.000 hours.

-Led Lighting: future development could see the output of 200 watts per lumen.




This is the estructure of a light bulb:










Outline of Glass bulb
Low pressure inert gas (argon, neon, nitrogen)
Tungsten filament
Contact wire (goes out of stem)
Contact wire (goes into stem)
Support wires
Stem (glass mount)
Contact wire (goes out of stem)
Cap (sleeve)
Insulation (vitrite)
Electrical contact




You could speak about different types of light bulbs nowadays.




The Computer: Was invented by Charles Babbage. I choose the computer because was very interesting machine. with the computer you can speak with your friends, upload fhotos and you can do your own blog. if you haven`t know how do you have to do exercises you can`t asked to your firends. You play games. but this is to pas the time. Also you cant take the imporafation you can`t find in a diccionary to do ther works.




There are diferent types of computers nowadays like:
-Desktop computers: The most common computer used in today`s world are the desktop computers which were specially bulit for personal use be it at home or work I think, because these computers are everywhere like; from one office, to your hause, schools, universities...

-Workstations: I think that a workstation is a specialized, single user computer that typically has more power than a desktop computer. these machines are most of the work of scientist.

-Notebook computers: Notebook computers is approximately the size of an 8.5-11 inch notebook and can easily fit inside a briefcase. In my opinion I think that these computers are used in eateries, cafes, at the work place and in aducation institutions.

-Tablet computers: Tablet PC´s are some of the more ever developments in portable, full featured computers.

-Handheld computers: these personal compueters are computing devices and I think that it can enter in your hand.

-Smart phones: these type of computers are phones that have a processing unit attached to act as a handheld computer.

-Supercomputers: I think that as a name said are the most fastest, and expensive modern computer systems.

-Mainframe computers: these type of computers are used in large organization like banks, where many people frequently need to use the same data.

-Minicomputers: are small sied computers which their capabilities between the range of a personal desktop computer and a mainframe.

JAZZ INSTRUMENTS AND JAZZ MUSICIANS

Hello people!!
In this blog I`m going to speak about different types of instruments of Jazz and about Jazz musicians.


JAZZ MUSICIAN

If I make a question about Jazz musicians, I am sure you will answer something about Louis Armstrong and I will not be surprised, because he is one of the best Jazz musicians.

Louis Armstrong:
Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers. With his distinctive gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also greatly skilled at scat singing, or vocalizing, using syllables instead of actual lyrics.

DIFERENT TYPE OF INSTRUMENTS

These are the most important instruments:

-Trumpet: The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments.They are constructed of brass tubing bent twice into an oblong shape, and I like it more than the others in the brass family.
-Saxophone: The saxophone is a conical-bored trasposing musical instruments considered a member of the wooding family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet.
 -Clarinet: The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwing family. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed. And probably you will prefer the clarinet to the saxophone because for me it is easier to play.
 -Piano: The piano is a musical instrument which is played by means of a keyboard and the piano is also popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal. It is composed by a sound box, to which one has added a keyboard, by means of which percuten the ropes of steel with hammers lined with felt producing the sound. And a lot of people have a piano in the house but it takes a lot of space from my point of view.
-Trombone: The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, the sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate. But I have tried to play the trombone and it was very tiring.

-Double Bass: The double bass, also called the upright bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. Double basses are constructed from several types of wood, including maple for the back, spruce for the top, and ebony for the fingerboard. It`s like a guitar but the guitar is louder and I like it more.
-Drums: The drum is a member of the percussion group of music instruments, technically classified as membranophone. The shell almost invariably has a circular opening over which the drumhead is stretched, but the shape of the remainder of the shell varies widely. It`s very difficult to play. It is an instrument that I like more than the other ones.

There are some other instruments for Jazz but they aren´t so important. Like:
-Conga
-Banjo
-Tuba
-Cornet
-Guitar

A.C.

Hello people!!!
This is an article about my friend A.C.

He was born in 1994, on 11th March, so he is piscis. He is 15 years old and he lives in Tolosa, in the Basque Country. He studies in Laskorain Ikastola and he is very good at computers. He has a brother. His favorite colour is white and the number he likes is 4. He does a lot of sport; Parkour, Basketball and he is in a Basketball team, and also he does Surf. Concerning this, he likes more the beach than the mountain. In his free time he normaly staies with his friends or he does parkour. His favorite food is pizza but he is always eating a chewing gum. He hasn`t got a favorite group of music and he hasn`t got a favorite TV program either. He doesn`t play any music instruments and he doesn`t watch fama either. He likes the day more than the night but he is very rebellious. He loves carnival of Tolosa and to finish he likes traveling.

Hello!!!!
I`m Jon Zubeldia and I am 15 years old. I study in Laskorain Ikastola and we have done this blog in the class of ICT (information and comunication technology).

We have had only three classes yet, and I study something interest. We learned to do a gmail.

Good bye and I think that became a very good blog.