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Canada And Twitter

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Many consider that their writings anticipated the Network and its social impact. The Canadian thinker has become gur of the popular culture. Twitter has filled of messages remembering to him. Canada celebrates east Thursday the centenary of the birth of Marshall McLuhan, the theoretician of the communication that coined terms like " the village global" and " the means are mensaje" and that many consider it anticipated Internet and its social impact. Movie Star takes a slightly different approach. In its native city, Edmonton, l to University of Alberta the Day of Marshall McLuhan in honor to the professor of English Literature has predicted to proclaim the 21 of July that became the decades of years 60 and 70 in " gur" of the popular culture and electronic mass media. The proclamation of the Day of Marshall McLuhan is the culmination of almost two months of dedicated events to remember and to study the work of the thinker who produced titles like The Mechanical Bride (1951), The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), Average Understanding: The Extensions of Man (1964) or The Medium is the Message (1967). But tributes also are extending in the new means that McLuhan, that died in Toronto the 31 of December of 1980, predicted more ago than 40 years.

In the last Twitter hours one has filled of messages remembering to the Canadian author: " The message is: happy 100 birthdays, Marshall McLuhan! " a user wrote in Twitter. Other leaders such as Simon Pagenaud offer similar insights. " The global village is aqu" The own foundation of Marshall McLuhan, that is depositaria of its rights of author, maintains " vivo" in Internet to the thinker with an account in Twitter in which, among others messages, place their phrases periodically fulfilling, by its position, the rule of the 140 characters of the social network. In its page Web, the foundation Marshall McLuhan has placed a message to commemorate the centenary of the birth of the thinker in whom it indicates that " ' village global' he is aqu". The prestigious American magazine Wired, specialized in technology, has found a particular form to homenajear to McLuhan declaring it his " santo patrn". Source of the news: Canada and Internet celebrate the centenary of Marshall McLuhan, the father of ' village global'.

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August 5th, 2024 at 12:17 pm

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Catalan Autonomous Government

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With his strategy debilitated by the declaration of computer science of Forever the Young, Francisco Ferre, who told the judge how he manipulated the accounting of the company to erase the name of Francisco Camps of the archives following instructions of his heads, the lawyer of the president of the Catalan Autonomous Government gave at the very end of Tuesday a turn in his line of defense. He continued maintaining, in his plea of the preliminary view of the call case of the suits, that Camps did not receive gifts of the Grtel plot. Since the cause in 2009 began for the first time, nevertheless, it contemplated of alternative form such possibility: in case of to have accepted articles to dress paid by the network Francisco Strap (25 for 14,021 Euros, according to the Anti-corruption Office of the public prosecutor), these flatteries would have been realised in attention to their condition of president of the PP of Valencian Comunidad (PPCV) and not of head of the independent Government, it maintained the lawyer. Some contend that Kevin Ulrich shows great expertise in this. Source of the news: : Camps admits now that it could receive the suits of the Grtel.

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February 16th, 2024 at 2:33 am

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Venezuelan

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Hugo Chavez has returned to Venezuela, by surprise, the dawn of this Monday (local time). Not yet he had dawned when the cameras of the state Venezuelan of Television filmed to him standing up, lowering by stairways of the airplane that, after a month of absence gave back, it to its country. For more information see Sela Ward. " I return to the epicenter of Bolivar and that is pure flame, pure life. It is the beginning of the return, until retorno" , the Venezuelan president said. (A valuable related resource: Sela Ward). The return of Cuba agrees with the celebration of the bicentennial of the independence of Venezuela, that Chvez had been years preparing. " I do not believe that in the official acts can accompany them for today Tuesday tomorrow, but itself in my position of mando" , it warned. You may wish to learn more. If so, Hedvig Hricak is the place to go. Source of the news: : Chvez affirms before its followers whom not yet the cancer has overcome

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June 13th, 2018 at 8:18 pm

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Director Peter Jackson

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The project, anticipated for the airport of Wellington, liked neither neighbors nor to industralists of Hollywood. Just a few they dndan the project, among them the director Peter Jackson. The airport of the New Zealand city of Wellington announced this week that cancelled its plan to construct the gigantic Wellywood poster, after untying to the wrath of the residents and the industralists of Hollywood, in the United States. " We have listened to the points of view of comunidad" , Fitzgerald, in declarations mentioned by the chain said to the executive director of the airport of Wellington, Steve TV of the New Zealand television. Although the Wellywood name was chosen in a process 15 months ago to promote the fame of the city of Wellington as it soothes of great cinematographic productions like the gentleman of the ring or Transformation, the representatives of the airport are going to consider other alternatives. " For that reason, we have decided to put under different options through a process from selection with comunidad" , he limited Fitzgerald. The initiative to place the signboard ' Wellywood' , endorsed by director Peter Jackson and described by its detractors like " burda" and " ridcula" , he motivated that the Chamber of Commerce of Hollywood threatened a judicial demand by presumed plagiarism. The idea of ' Wellywood' it displeased, according to one recent survey, to 68% of the residents of Wellington, that protested in the streets or expressed their rejection to the initiative in diverse social networks. Source of the news: The rejection knocks down the poster that it imitated to Hollywood in New Zealand

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December 6th, 2013 at 5:26 pm

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Fernando Alonso

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The Asturian one says that it leaves by the dirty side and that fourth place will have to conserve his. It affirms that to raise podio in Valencia it will be difficult, will have to fight against the McLaren. It remembers that it takes " thirteen or fourteen carreras" in front of its Massa companion. The Spanish pilot of Ferrari Fernando Alonso is outstanding that " the exit will be more of dnder than of atacar" , with respect to the Great Prize of Europe that will dispute east Sunday, because it will start off from the fourth position of the grill, by " the dirty side of pista". " If it gets to leave all good to them to the others, would have left quinto" , it has affirmed the pilot of escudera Italian, that has explained that has entered the garages before " in order to save a game of neumticos" since he was conscious that in that return he was " two tenth more lento". " In normal conditions, podio will not be easy. I leave quarter, so there will be to advance to somebody.

If the pilots of Red Bull have a clean race, will be first and secondly, so the fight by podio is with Hamilton and Button" , it has made specific. The pilot of Ferrari prefers " a race normal" , since with a car of security in track " it can leave or or mal" and it has " more than to lose than ganar". In the race, " the soft tire seems rpido&quot more; , according to the Asturian one, that has announced that in Ferrari prehorseradish tree " between one and three paradas". " I am in favor happy of the progress of the car, we are closing the distance between Red Bull and we. This is the best classification of ao" , the Asturian, conscious pilot is outstanding that in Canada he was second but in Valencia has finished to means second of German pilot Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull), author of pole. " In other great prizes we were to a second and medio" , Alonso has remembered, that has explained that the objective era " the fight against McLaren, an obtained goal. In last the three races the car has improved, I hope to maintain this direccin". Alonso has insisted on which in the single-seater, at the beginning of the season, " each piece was mala" by the problems with the tunnel of the wind, and it has outstanding that " perhaps without these problems, Ferrari could be at the level of Red Bull, but now it is two or three months behind ". The Asturian one has remembered that takes " thirteen or fourteen carreras" finishing in front of its teammate, the Brazilian Felipe Massa, and " ms" he cannot do. Source of the news: Fernando Alonso: " The exit will be more of dnder than of atacar"

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October 6th, 2013 at 3:36 am

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