Mariana Duque won her first single wta tour title

Mariana Duque won her first single wta tour title. She started her participation in the tournament after losing the Bonaire cup final in Cali, her first match was on Tuesday against Greta Arn, thirty years old

German Player, Mariana lost the first set 2-6 but then she won 6-0 6-3. Second match was against Ukrainian Kristina Antoniychuk, she is very cute; Mariana won 7-6 7-6, although it was in straight sets the match was very difficult for Mariana because she was 2-5 below in the first set, nevertheless she surpassed an won the match. Third match was against Klara Zakopalova from Czech republic, Mariana duque had no problems in the first set which she took 6-0, in the second set things were more balanced but Mariana won 7-6, one more time, Mariana won in straight sets. Fourth Match was against Arantxa Parra Santoja from Spain, she, Arantxa is a very strong player she hits the ball really strong, but marina knew how to stop her hits and won 6-4 7-5, one more time, Mariana won in straight sets. At the end, Angelique kerber from Germany, she is a lefty player that hits strong the ball; Angelique was the final contender for Mariana, the match was very hard for Mariana because she was sick, she had flue , but she fought despite the adverse circumstances and won the Match.

Mariana is the second player from colombia in win a wta tour titlle, the fisrt was Fabiola Zuluaga, Fabiola was at the award ceremony and she congratulated to mariana, she said :”Mariana has talent a lot, I hope she is aware of that”

Well, I’m very happy with this story I hope to see more about it.

Today i will translate a text taken from www.eltiempo.com

Today i will translate a text taken from www.eltiempo.com

Woman was fired from her job because did comments in facebook while she was sick.

She complained of migraine and was allowed to stay in a dark room in the company.

however, she left her "digital sign" on facebook and lost her job.the reason of the boss: if she could do comments on facebook then she was able to work.

the incident occurred in puerto rico, where cases of dismissal for using the information systems during business hours for purposes not related with the job are increasing.

this was indicated by Ydelfonso Lopez, lawyer of the O'Neill y Borges firm, during one of the presentatios of the labour forum of the society for the management of the humans resources (SHMR Society for Human Resource Management). altough he did not give figures related with the misuse of tecnology, Lopez showed a table with multiple examples that his firm had handled.

an employee lost his job for sending offensive comments through e-mail of the company since his messages contained the company name and logo.meanwhile, an employee was fired for saving in a computer of the company - it is used by others employees- more than 60 explicit pictures from him, naked and in sexual acts with another man. During his presentation, Lopez Explained that this employee..

See you soon.

Today I will talk about technology

Taken from Wikipedia:

Technology is the usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects the ability to control and adapt to an environment. A strict definition is elusive; technology can be material objects of use to humanity, such as clothing, but can also encompass broader themes, including systems, methods of organization, and techniques. The term can either be applied generally or to specific areas: examples include "construction technology", "medical technology", or "state-of-the-art technology".

The human species began to use technology with the conversion of natural resources into simple tools. The prehistorical discovery of the ability to control fire increased the available sources of food and the invention of the wheel helped humans in travelling in and controlling their environment. Recent technological developments, including the printing press, the telephone, and the Internet, have lessened physical barriers to communication and allowed humans to interact freely on a global scale, however, not all technology has been used for peaceful purposes; the developments of weapons of ever-increasing destructive power has progressed throughout history, from clubs to nuclear weapons.

Technology has affected society and its surroundings in a number of ways. In many societies, technology has helped develop more advanced economies(including today’s global economy ) and has allowed the rise of a leisure class. Many technological processes produce unwanted by-products, known as pollution, and deplete natural resources, to the detriment of the earth and its environment. Various implementations of technology influence the values of a society and new technology often raises new ethical questions. Examples include the rise of the notion of efficiency in terms of human productivity, a term originally applied ony to machines, and the challenge of traditional norms.

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As you can see, i today was not creative, i'm sorry but i was very tired. so long.

My Job is easy.

My Job is easy.

Recently in my job things have been easy for me, I did not have to do too many things, so I have been able to study for my Cisco certification. Usually I arrive in the morning and I write this blog during thirty minutes, after that I turn on my personal computer and start to study. Because we don’t have internet access , my friend, Matby lends me a USB memory that has access to internet with Tigo as provider. As you can see, I have idle time a lot, and I take that time for study Cisco and to write here in my English learning process. As you know I am systems Engineer and I have to be studying to be competitive at the labor market. My goal this year Is to become a Ccna certified engineer also to become a java SCWCD for improving my possibilities for salary increase.

I am already SCJP, it is the first java certification, it was very hard to pass the examination because I had to work during three and a half months, I got 73 % as score, it is good but It could have been better, but anyway it is good . Matby is studying to become a SCJP also, he is reading a specialized book, he has spend three months studying and he hopes to take the examination in one month.

I’m finishing my Ccna preparation course, I’m in the fourth module, accessing the wan, I hope to finish this month to start my exam preparation through mocks and testkings.

Well those are my next goals. I’ll see you later.

I will talk about Transmilenio

I will talk about Transmilenio  Transmilenio is a massive mean of transportation working in bogota since 2000, its construction begun in 1998, by the time Enrique Peñaloza was Major(Alcalde), inaugurated on December 4, 2000, it started to operate on December 18 of the same year.  Since then new trunks have been opened and there are others under construction.  Antecedents:  The massive mean of transportation of the third milenniun, Transmilenio, is part of the SITP(Integrated Public Transport System) of bogotá that include the bicycle routes network and the future projects of the Train of cercanias an the first metro line.  With the investment financed with a percentage of the surcharge to the fuels an the input from the Capital District and the national government was possible to launch this service. the construction of infrastructure and road system and the manteinance of these is developed by the Urban Development institute.   System consists in articulated vehicles with fixed stops at exclusive stations. Users pay 1600 Colombian pesos (approximately US$0,75 o €0,53) in lockers located in each station. I works like a metro but with articulated buses. thus, Transmilenio is one of the bus rapid transit system. Generally, there are two ways of exclusivity on both sides of the station, to allow that the articulated buses of the express service surpass to the current service.    System is based in the integrated network of transport of the Curitiba city, but there are some differences, such as the passenger access doors on the left side of buses, allowing that only one station to operate in both direcctions, so if a passenger inadvertently passed his destination station, then he can take a bus in inverse way to return, without the need of paying an additional ticket; in addition, Stations with access ramps and a great use of the passenger bridges (Very traditional in the city). in addition, it was the first system of this kind in using the concept of feeder bus routes, which the cost is integrated to the ticket of the main routes (trunks)  In Curitiba, each station covers a direcction and its access are upstairs and electrical drawbridge. Transmilenio system is the second type BRT implemented in latin America(First was Curitiba in Brazil ), the fist in colombia and one of the more successful due to the high urban density in bogota, by that reason has been taken as model for some projects of this type being built in some countries of Hispanomarica. In the Transmilenio system  was implemented a total uniformity in colour of the buses, regardless of the route, and uniformity of payment, allowing that with a flat fee ticket passengers can travel in any of the timetable of the day in which the system is operating, this has allowed better collection efficiency and more favorable impact on users.   That is all folks.

Today i was watching tennis.

Today i was in the Colsanitas Cup event. There were many tennis player, they are all very beautiful, Most were European, and they are taller and stronger.

the Colsanitas cup event is in the Rancho club. It is a private club located on 194 Street in bogota, Colombia, i went with my friend, Miguel, and he was accompanied with two friends. We had to walk from transmilenio station to The club, the distance is almost one kilometer and the road was full of dust kicked up by cars.

First we watched the match between Nina BRATCHIKOVA from Russia and Elena BOGDAN from Romania, after almost three hours of play won the Romanian.

then we were in several matches, i don't remember the players names, but the matches all were very entertaining to me. Level of play in the matches in general was very good.

At the end we watched the match between a bolivian and a spanish, the spanish won the match.

That is all. thanks.

I also have dreams

Today i will talk about my dreams.

Everybody has dreams, at least when we were children we had so many dreams , dreams isnpired by sports, tv programs and more. Whe i was a child i wished to be an actor, futbol player and drug dealer, it was exciting for me. over the years dreams change, they are according to the circumstances and the environment in which we live.

When i was a teenager i dreamt beign a systems engineer professional, but mi parents did not have enough money to pay the university, so i had to work har to achieve it, but i did it, i could to go to the university and course my university carrer, i'm very proud of myself. I remember I worked raising and selling chickens, i went to the street to sell, knocking on doors, it was really hard because i was a boy very shy and it was very difficult to start a conversation, even more a conversation with the purpose of selling, however i overcame the fear and i had success. Then in 1996 i graduated and apply to the university but i was rejected, it was very hard for me, So I had to get help to enter, a teacher, former boss of my father help me, so i started my studies at the university.

At the beginnig the university process was very difficult for me, because my student level was low, and i lose severall subjects, but next semester i recovered all. so the first year were then it was not so difficult and i could approve all and at last i graduated in 2003. So, my dream of being a professional systems engineer came true.

Right now i have so many dreams but i don't have enough time to tell you. see you soon.

I will talk about situation in Haiti.

I will talk about situation in Haiti. As you know Haiti was shaken for a earthquake one month ago, It was very awesome and destructive, causing great audience around the world, because the mass media have covered this story all the time. People in Haiti has lost everything, they only have their life and the hope for continuing; that is a great message for me, in the hard moments of the life nothing is more important than the life itself, right now I know that the most important is to be alive and to have hope, the rest is circumstantial and everything is not so important as the life is. I confess that I cried when I saw the images from Haiti, people crying, praising, children without parents, it must have been difficult for everybody who was there watching what was happening, I believe those moments people get close to God, Because only God can provide Solace a strength for continuing in the hard moments, and, in fact people in Haiti is closer to god than before, that is well, I think, too much work they will have to do for rebuilding this city, port prince, the Capital of Haiti.

Many countries, persons and volunteers have been helping to haiti, it is nobble cause, also From colombia many volunteer firemen were there helping, I think they did very good work. Althoug, watching cnn, I realized that bad persons have tried to kidnapp some children for take out to other countries. I think it is miserable, because they are taking advantage of the hard situation of this poor country and people living in it.

According to Cnn,and in summary: they were charge a week ago with kidnapping children ac criminal association for trying to take 33 children out of haiti without proper documentation following the nation's january 12 magnitude 7.0 earthquake. they hope to reach a decision for a type of bail withoud bond.

The Americans have said they were trying to help the children get to a safe place, and wanted to establish an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. Some of the Americans have said ther thought the were helping orphans, but their interpreters have said that they were present where group members spoke with some of the children's parents.

Some of the parents also spoke with cnn, saying they had willingly given their children to the Americans, who promised them a better life and said they could see their children whenever they wanted.

Here ends my writing today. So long.

What do i think today?

Today I’m going to talk about the entertainment y what I think about it. There are people that is very interested in the entertainment world, luxury life, and things so. I think that those persons are very poorly mentally and they need somebody that learns them how to live, how to talk, to dress and so on. i grow up in a poor family, in cacota, norte de santander, colombia; i was away from the tv until twelve years because we didn't have TV, my childhood was among plants, animals and country life. It was very calmed and peaceful. so i didn't need to imitate anybody, i made my personality and so i was happy.

Right now . i no longer enjoy the tv and the entertainment world.

Today is February 10, 2010.

Today is February 10, 2010.

Today has been a day with so much work, because when I arrived to my office, fifteen minutes later, Maritza, The boss of turn, Assigned me a Job, so I had to start to work and just now I have a few time to write this. In the latest days I had been doing very few, there was not work, so I thought that today I could to study Cisco, for that reason I brought my computer, but I could use it because the reason I said before.

I’m feeling laziness and tiredness to be here in this work, because I feel that I’m not improving as professional, I’m no learning new things, and also the contract finishes in 4 months and I don’t know whether it is going to be renewed, I received a promise from my boss, Harold Rodriguez, he promised me that I went to work in another company when this contract finishes, in that case I have to wait that he complies it.

Yesterday I received a mail at hotmail, it was a chain, It was a PowerPoint slides file that said that the end of the world is near. It was a story about the apparition of the Maria Virgin to the pastors kids in 1917. Second the story one of the secrets revealed to the children had been authorized to be advertised to everybody by the Catholic church. The secret said that there will be disasters, earthquakes, tsunamis, and so many bad things more; The Maria Virgin says that we had to be repentant and we have to follow to Jesus Christ, says that the people has been far from the God Word, and the men don’t believe in God anymore.

I was very scared and I forwarded the mail to my contact list, then I started to praise even more I cried.

Today is February 9, 2010.

Today is a normal day, it is sunny day with some clouds and everything is beautiful. I left from my home at six forty five and later walking to trasnmilenium station i remenbered that i had not turned off the iron, so i called to my neighbor to ask a favor, to enter to my apartment and to turn it off.

When i arrived to mi office and turn on my computer, my coworker, matby, say me that Hugo Chavez did an abuse of power by expropiating a building with offices in venezuela; many persons lost their jobs without a just cause. I entered to eltiempo.com web page to see the full story.

article thus said.

Chavez ordered the expropiation of several buildings in the historic center of caracas.

In one of the seized goods would build a "bolivarian national museum"

Venezuelas' president , hugo chavez, ordered this sunday to expropiating of several buildings in the historic center of caracas,during his radio an tv weekly program "Alo president".

"What is that building", chavez Asked the governement team that accompanied him in the plaza bolivar in caracas. "A private building o a jewerly store", receives as answer. immediately, the leader shouted "Expropiate", chavez continued.

"and what is that another?" ... they told me that there lived (The liberator) Simon bolivar newly married,"Expropiate", chavez continued .

"We have to convert this place in a great historic center", he said.

Before the end of his Sunday, Jorge Rodriguez, mayor of the Caracas municipality of Libertador, where there are buildings, on Monday confirmed that the four buildings will be designated by the president declared of "public interest".

"And on tuesday we already must be expropiating them", Rodriguez added.

the venezuelan leader even proposed that in one of the buildings affected for the measure is to build a "Bolivariano national museum"

After ordering the expropiations, Chavez, who since 2007 is doing an intense campaign of nationalizations of strategic sectors, guaranteed, however, to the venezuelan the family private property.


"We are leveraging the small family property, the venezuelan socialist proyect does not apart that property, which is private property", he said.

"Capitalismo is who expropiate you, Capitalismo is who espropiate to the people, to the family unity: your small land, your home, nothing of that belongs to you in the capitalism", he said.

Here the article ends.


As you can see the situation in venezuela is very hard, due to Chavez, the presidente, i think he is an dictator that is sinking to venezuela in a deep economic and social crisis.

Some of the comments of the reader are:

DJL said:

Chaves resembles to Caligula. The same irreverent attitude, omnipotent, usurping all powers. he looks like Calingla even in his pretense of being a demigod.

Dellacroce:

The day in what this son of its bad sleeping falls, his pieces will be throw away, each piece of him in a border of wenezuela and his name will be erased even his birth certifcate. his submissive people will forget his name and his kingdom will be eliminated from the venezuelan history. what a disgusting human being!!

cfeliper said:

Here the expropriations video, something for don´t believe, it is incredible that outburts like this occurs in the full xxi century, definitivley, in this case we see how the reality gets over the fiction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3dyzainlyi

fherrerab said:

the sad part is to see how the followers behind him applaud each foolish thing that Chavez say, where was it seen that a guy being braggart was to do this kind of expropriations whithout a serious criteria, in a broadcasting in live for the world; he looks like a stealer that i have ever seen.

EticaCero said:

When he says capitalism is which expropriate, he means that in capitalismo the houses and all the comforts are leased or they are being paid all the time, and that is very true in societies such as usa, where usually you owe the car, the house and even your clothing you wear, always you are in debt with somebody for something you have. However, in Socialism the reality is not different at least you are not who buy the house and the state provides to you one, this will be normal in the distant future in better planned societies and with birth control, but right now to have home continues meaning to pay high quantities of money, further The capitalism as everybodoy knows has the loaning financial sector as on of the backbones and it is so that almost you don't exist if you dont owe or it would be better if you owed for effects of banking beneficts.

EticaCero, Again, said:

Unfortunately it is useless to talk about socialism if you do not have one of the most essential features of it: birth control. without birth control socialism is not more than a moderated capitalism. in a distant future, five hundred years into the future, things will change drastically , the oil and thirty percent of the natural resources that today we have will disappear because they are non-renewable, but there will be more people! that situation will require to all coutries around the world to implement birth control, once implemented the societies, On the Brink of the Abyss will start to control everything, they will be societies better planned and more just where the human rights will be strengthened in the measure in that birth control increase and will increase due to the ecological chaos and the existence of a world that will be small for us. in 1000 years each country around the world will be controlled societies , or socialists.

until here i write, i have to work, see you tomorrow.

Today is February 8, 2010.

I woke up at five thirty, the alarm clock rang and the t.v. also, every morning , during thirty minutes, i wake up listening and watching cnn channel, because i am doing listening exercices to improve my English level.

at Six o'clock i went to the bath room to brush my teeth, but i didn´t take a shower because i was really lazy and fear of the cool water. at six thirty i got out from the bathroom, i lasted so much because i remained sitting down on the toilet during ten minutes.

then i had to iron my shirt, i spend five minutes on this task, then i started to get dressed: first i put my socks, second i put my underwear, third i put my t-shirt, fourth i put my inner shirt, fifth i put my pants, sixth i put my ironed shirt, y at the end i put my suit. by the time i had finished it was six forty five, it war hour to drink my breakfast, it is just multivitaminic, ensure.

At six Fifty i went out from home and I went to the transmilenio bus station, that trip takes more than ten minutes, so at seven o'clock i arrived and i took the bus at seven five. Transmilenio is a masive mean of transportation, it is very congested, always there are too much people, people travels unconfortable, but they have to use it because it is the fastest choice. The trip in transmilenio takes twenty minutes on average.

when i arrived to the sation, Calle 100 Station, i had to walk during twenty minutes to get to work. I work in a company called ATH, i work as software Developer, the building hast ten floors and i work on the fifth floor. Before entering to the office i go to the small kiosk, it is called tienda in Colombia, it is a place where i buy something for eating; then i enter to the building and then to my office, i leave my things, my bag, on the desk, an then i go to the food area in the building to eat whatever that i had bought.

is assumed that at eight o'clock i have to start to work, in that time i bagan to work. My job is to develop software through requirements. Sometimes there are not requirements and i am iddle, it is very good for me because i have time to do another things such as writing this.

I have a coworker named Matby Peralta, he is a very tall person, he is 1 meter ninety centimeters tall, he is an electronic engineer and works as sofware developer too.

I spend much time looking out the window because sometimes i don't have enough work. My office is in front of the "calle 100" street and the landscape is very beautiful, i really enjoy watching everithing happens out there.

Right now it is four fory seven pm, i have been writing this during last hour, i don't know what more to write, i will stop.

Sunday February seventh. Resting day.

Hello,

My name is Nelson Villamizar, i'm starting my studies in english, for that reason i need a space where i can to write everything i want. Possiblly this blog is not going to be read for anybody, however, i will use for describe all things that happens to me.

I live in a house with four floors, and i live with a friend named Armando Diaz, he is smooker, i hate him for that reason, he is always smooking and ignores my request for stopping smoking.

Today is sunday february seventh of 2010. I woke up at six o clock and then i was to the kitchen to prepare my breakfast, it was a portion o multivitaminic, ensure, cause i had not time for prepare a real breakfast, but it is enough for me. at six thirty i went out to play tennis with a friend named Omar. I had to walk during fifteen minutes to arrive to the park where the court is. When i arrived to the park i had to go to the office to request a turn for using the court; this process lasted almost an hour, yes almost an hour, it is too much time, but it is the only way for me to play tennis. at eight o'clock my partner, my contender, arrived to the court and we started to play; in the fist game i started serving and i won it, then he, omar, won his service, and so on until he broke my service in the seventh game, i felt angry because i was serving forty love, but then i broke him for recovering my service. we interchange breaks in the next games until the tiebreak, in the tiebreak he won seven three (7/3), i was dissapointed really upset. by the time tikebreak finished it was nine o'clock, so, we had to go out from the court, because the rental time had finished.

Then i came back home, i took a shower and then i went to sleep .
this is the court: