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It is really simple. Rice is prepared with water and salt (without salt in Chinese cuisine)  so the amount of water has to be measured carefully otherwise with little water rice will be dry and a bit crispy. Excessive water will leave it soft, thick and tasteless. That is what we call AROOZ SOPUDO in Guayaquilean Spanish. In English that would be WATERY RICE.  Though there are people who do not mind eating Watery Rice, I personally find it unedible.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Smee is not only the name of the funny guy who is also pirate Hook´s trusted lieutenant. This word is also the name of a game described in a story by the British writer, A.M. Burrage (1889-1956), a game that is heavily based on "Hide and Seek" which we know can be fun but not all the time. The story goes like this: a group of youngsters gather together at night at an abandoned house to plas Smee which is actually another way to write the expression "It's me" (Soy yo). The participants in this game begin playing in one of the rooms. Silently they all receive a piece of paper and only one of those pieces has the word SMEE written on it. At that moment the person who receives that paper becomes Smee but must not reveal his/her identity to the other players. After the papers are given, all of them, without any candle or lamp, have to leave the room and go sseparate ways beacuse first they have to hide from one another. After a while those who are not Smee start

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1864-1936) was a Spanish novelist, poet and essayist. He lived during a difficult time time for both Spain and Europe in general fact that was reflected in some of his works. His production was extensive and quite interesting. Some of the works that stand out from the rest are Vid a de Don Quixote and Sancho, Abel Sánchez and  Cómo se Hace una Novela.  There is also Niebla which Unamuno insisted in calling a nivola t o differentiate it from the standard concept of what a novel is. Really when I read it at first I could not see the difference between one and the other though I must say Niebla is a stroke of genius. This work revolves around the life of a young and healthy man called Augusto who falls in love with a girl called Eugenia but is not really corresponded because she is in love with another man. Augusto tries to court Eugenia sometimes opening his heart to her and sometimes helping her with money. In despair Augusto proposes to Eugenia and to h

Woody Allen's movies are different. You sit down and if you expect to see the standard fictional piece that tries to imitate fiction you're in for a deception. Woody Allen is not your regular director. He wants his movies to be dfferent and in fact they all are. After filming the outstanding Midnight in Paris he goes onto yet another city, Rome, and tells not one but four stories, each one with that does of surrealism that permeates his stories. They are not told one after the other but as though they were happening at the same time.  In one Leopoldo (Roberto Benigni) is a common man with a common  life who suddenly becomes famous for no reason whatsoever and starts being chased down by papparazis and people in general regard him as someone important. In the second, a couple of newlyweds Antonio and Milly  (Alessandro Tiberi and Alessandra Mastronardi) arrive in Rome from their small town to meet with Antonio's rich family who have offered him a job. Milly decides

Another comedy starred by Kevin James. In this story he is Scott Voss, a Biology teacher at a school that is meeting poor standards and has economic problems that lead to the supresion of the music program which means that one of Scott's friends will be laid off. In order to help his friend and the school, Scott decides to do something. At night he teaches a citizenship class and one of his students is a former fighter who reveals to him that when losing in fights the contender also gets money. So he asks his student to help him enter the world of fighting since Scott believes that his college experience in wrestling will help him but it never happens completely. Eventually and after many adventures and misadventures there is a new fight that pays the money Scott needs to save the music program, a fight against the UFC top contender.  "Here comes the Boom" (you will understand why it has that title when you see the film) is not a boring comedy, but it is not a movie

Back in the eighties and early nineties  having in the same film the likes of Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Norris was a dream. But tha dream became a reality with The Expendables and The Expendables 2. In The Expendables we saw Sylvester Stallone (Barney Ross) leading a group of mercenaries made by Jason Statham (Chriistmas), Jet Li (Yang), Dolph Lundgren (Jensen), Randy Couture (Toll Road) and Terry Crews (Hale Caesar) with the assistance of Rourke as Tool. They faced a ficitonaLatin American dictator who was helped by Eric Roberts (Munroe) and Steve Austin (Pane). Scharzenegger and Willis made cameo appearances as Trench, a competitor, and Mr. Church who is Ross's group employer for this mission.  The Expendables 2 has the same roster minus Rourke and with Liam Hemsworth (Billy the Kid) as the sniper of the group. This time we get to see more of Willis and Schwarzenegger in action plus Norris is introduced as Booker though he only appears in a timely fashion. There is als

Besides the fact that the names are similar, there is really very little that differentiates math operations in English or Spanish. So let us begin with that precisely:               Spanish                       English                 Suma                       Addition                 Resta                     Substraction            Multiplicación           Multiplication                División                    Division Now how we express those operations ( meaning how we explain them when we demonstrate a theorem for instance ) implies the use of words that can be distinct. In two of the four operations the translations is literal, not so in one of them (Multiplication) and in Division we have a choice. It goes like this: Dos más dos es Cuatro (2+2=4)           Two plus two is Four   (you can also say two and two) Tres menos dos es Uno  (3-2=1)         Three minus two is One  It is different in Multiplication. Cuatro por cuatro es diéciseis (4x4