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Saturday, January 10, 2009

William ockham!

William of Ockham, born in the village of Ockham in Surrey (England) about 1285, was the most influential philosopher of the 14th century and a controversial theologian.
He entered the
Franciscan order at an early age and took the traditional course of theological studies at Oxford. Strong opposition to his opinions from members of the theological faculty prevented him from obtaining his Master's degree. His teaching had also aroused the attention of Pope John XXII, who summoned him to the papal court in Avignion (France) in 1324.
The charges against him were presented by Jogh Lutterell, the former chancellor of the university of Oxford. Ockham was never condemned, but in 1327, while residing in Avignion, he became involved in the dispute over apostolic poverty. When this controversy reached a critical stage in 1328, and the Pope was about to issue a condemnation of the position held by the Franciscans, Ockham and two other Franciscans fled from Avignion to seek the protection of Emperor Louis IV, the
Bavarian.
They followed the empe
ror to Munich (Germany) in 1330, where Ockham wrote fervently against the papacy in a series of treatises on papal power and civil sovereignty. The medieval rule of parsimony, or principle of economy, frequently used by Ockham came to be known as Ockham's razor. The rule, which said that plurality should not be assumed without necessity (or, in modern English, keep it simple, stupid), was used to eliminate many pseudo-explanatory entities.
It is believed that he died in a convent in
Munich in 1349, a victim of the Black Death. His name, spelled Occam, lives on in the names of streets and restaurants in Munich ... and in the brave new world of high-performance safety-critical parallel computing.

Credits: Wikipedia
How I meet your Mother!
It is a comedy series, created by Carter Bays, Craig Thomas and directed by Pamela Fryman and Rob Greenberg. His release date is on 19 of september of 2005.
Ted Mosby is the main character of this series, where in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting their mother, which explains the title and allows for a narration.How I Met Your Mother's other main characters are Marshall Eriksen, Robin Scherbatsky, Barney Stinson, and Lily Aldrin. Thomas and Bays drew from their friendship in creating the characters, with Ted based loosely on Bays, and Marshall and Lily based loosely on Thomas and his wife.
In September 2008, it was announced that Lifetime Television purchased the syndication rights to How I Met Your Mother at a rate of $750,000 per episode. Inspired by "our friends and the stupid stuff we did in New York," How I Met Your Mother is Bays and Thomas' idea.
The show usually features multiple flashbacks in each episode. This effect has been dubbed "deep frying" the story, a reference to the show's director, Pamela Fryman. Laughter is not recorded until the episode is shown to a live audience after it has been completely edited together. Sometimes scenes incorporate a studio audience, depending on the set structures.
The bar "MacLaren's", in which some of the show is set, is based on a bar in New York called McGee's. It has a mural that Carter Bays and Craig Thomas both liked and wanted to incorporate into the show.
In the year 2030, Ted Mosby gathers his daughter and son to tell them the story of how he met their mother. The story begins in 2005, when Ted decides what to do with his life and he wants to have married like his best friends Marshall Eriksen and Lyli Aldrin.
Barney his other "best friend" like he says, told him that women's dreams will not fall from the sky. And since Ted meets her really wife, occur several anecdotes and many girls don't reciprocated.
Is one of my favourite series, I love it!

Credits: IMDb and wikipedia

NetherlandS

I've don't have been never in Netherlands, but when I've been 20 years, I have to take an aire plane and go to have fun In Netherlands.
My mother have visited and she told me, that it was an interesting experience. She says the weather were so bad, so cloudy and cold. She bring me one artistic preservative but it was to decorate my bedroom. Though the weather was bad, she was impressed with Amsterdam, she likes a lot the city, and she told me that most people were with bicycles and not with cars.
The Netherlands is faumous for the coffe shops, sex shops, etc. There the marijuana is not prohibited, and young people want be there, to have fun. Apart from that, the capital, Amsterdam is famous for his "rivers" in the city. The Netherlands is a densely populated country. It is known for its traditional windmills, tulips, cheese, clogs (wooden shoes), delftware and gouda pottery, for its bicycles, and in addition, traditional values and civil virtues such as its classic social tolerance.
Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands is one of the first parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy.
Netherlands has signed the Kyoto protocol. With Belgium and Luxembourg it forms the Benelux economic union.
I think Netherlands don't have negative aspects, only the cloudy and cold weather, but I like so much Netherlands and I'm impressed with the big social tolerance.
The positive aspects are the social tolerance, the kyoto protocol, the bicycles opretaion and more positive aspects. I want visit Amsterdam with my friends for 1 month in a tipical hostel to be happy!
My positive conclusion is that Netherlands is one of my favourite contry for all I have says before and I will visit one time of my live!