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Comment by Nhaireli on November 7, 2008 at 12:32pm

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Comment by Heily on November 7, 2008 at 12:22pm

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In this opportunity I want to write about an admirable woman. She's Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, we call him “Madre Teresa de Calcuta”. She was a girl when she was admitted in the “Mariana de las Hijas de María” Congregation, where She began her relief work to the most needy.


On October 7, 1950, Teresa’s Mother received permission from the Holy See to start her own order, "The Missionaries of Charity”

Her work brought her numerous humanitarian awards, including: the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, the Kennedy Prize in 1971, the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding (1972), the International Prize Albert Schweitzer in 1975; She also received the Balzan Prize (1979) and the Templeton and Magsaysay awards and many others.

Mother Teresa's work has been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. She was an excellent person.

Comment by Valeria Rosales on November 5, 2008 at 5:15pm

Hello there!!I’m Valeria Rosales M411

LOVERS OF TURTLE

There are some groups and singers boast their millions album sold, their position on the posts of popularity, groups as MANA have something about to feel really proud because they are the frits group to receive the international HEROE DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE prize for their dedication not only for the music but also for preserve the environment.

MANA accepted pleased by the recognition of the work they are have been doing for 10 years ago, they alert the people of the consequences of don’t look after our planet.

MANA also have a foundation called Selva Negra and they have been activists of the environment in several countries in South America, Caribbean, Central American, The United States and Europe.

Comment by wilfredo salazar on November 4, 2008 at 4:23pm

I admire Guaco, is a group that was born in 1960 in Maracaibo, Zulia state (west of Venezuela).originally emerged as a diversion from corner to interpret the gaita, the most popular musical style of that region, is a group pecualiar, because it has always sought innovation in this musical style.
Guaco has become one of the bands most beloved and emblematic of Venezuela. I personally think it is a band that has a long history and has keep it on the Firts positions because of their unique musical style

Comment by Eduardo Iragorri on November 4, 2008 at 1:21am

Robert J. Widlar – The Genius, The Legend, The Bohemian



Today I would like to introduce you to someone whose last name you might have heard once or twice if you are into electronics, but you have no idea who he was... It's Bob Widlar, creator of the Widlar Current Source (Current Mirror) and many other invaluable circuits used everyday. A Widlar current source is a modification of the basic two-transistor current mirror that incorporates an emitter degeneration resistor for only the output transistor, enabling the current source to generate low currents using only moderate resistor values.The Widlar circuit may be used with bipolar transistors, MOS transistors, and even vacuum tubes. An example application is the 741 operational amplifier, and Widlar used the circuit as a part in many designs.


Robert Widlar is considered the creator of the IC operational amplifier, which made millions for National. This photo was taken around 1977, judging by the LM10 circuit design at which he's looking.

“A Fairchild researcher trained a frog to jump at the

sound of a bell. The researcher measured the distance the

frog would jump, then removed the frog’s legs and rang

the bell again. The frog did not move, thus proving the

Fairchild R&D group hypothesis that removing a frog’s

legs deafens the animal.”

Robert J. Widlar,

describing Fairchild’s R&D group in 1967

Robert Widlar was one of the original analog circuit pioneers. Not only was he a brilliant engineer, he was also a wild partier. His antics, along with his designs, and recounted in undergraduate analog IC courses to this day.

Widlar began his career at Fairchild semiconductor, where he designed a couple of pioneering op amps. By 1966, the commercial success of his designs became apparent, and Widlar asked for a raise. He was turned down, and jumped ship to the fledgling National Semiconductor. At National he continued to turn out amazing designs, and was able to retire just before his 30th birthday in 1970.

After he retired, Widlar continued to produce designs for National. In 1980, he worked for Linear Technology for a few months.

When Widlar left Fairchild for National in 1966, he wrote on his exit questionnaire "I WANT TO GET RICH," and signed it "X." When frustrated, Widlar would take the axe he kept in his office and attack a convenient linoleum floor or tree.

In 1969, when tough times caused National to cut back on landscaping to save money, Widlar drove out to a farm, bought a sheep and brought it back to the National campus in the back of his Mercedes convertible. He tethered to the bumper of his car and let it munch on the grass for the day. That evening, he took it to a bar with him and tied it to a barstool. Depending on who you believe, he either auctioned it off to the highest bidder or gave it to the bartender.

He was once found wandering drunk down 5th Avenue in New York in the middle of a snow storm. He was trying to find a way to get to New Jersey for a sales call.

Widlar died on February 27th, 1991, at the age of 53. He had drunk himself into an early grave.

The achievements of Bob Widlar demonstrated that an engineer could have a major impact on the business of a large company. Bob Widlar created new products, new applications, and a new market – linear integrated circuits.

Robert John Widlar is a typical example of how a company benefited from somebody who consistently remained an inventive genius over an entire career if they let him be himself.

At the same time the personality of Bob Widlar is a clear manifestation of unhealthy changes which occurs in our society. In the current semiconductor business environment, with Human Resources Departments defining what engineers can and cannot comment about, it is very unlikely that we will see his kind again. Bob was a fiercely independent individual, very happy to be by himself, and he did not care a lick about how others saw him. He did almost everything in a stunning way, which was absolutely natural to him, but completely weird to so-called “normal people.”

Bob Widlar never talked about his early years, or anything personal. He was very charming but always a bit mysterious. He seemed to be more artist than engineer; he cherished creativity more than the concept of general intelligence.


There is no easy way (and maybe not a good one either) to describe this man, but I'd rather admire and remember him for his huge aportation to the electronic circuit design, given that most, just not to say, all circuits today (be them basic or fancy) include at least one of his inventions in it, so I bow down to this man and his amazing creations.

Comment by Gabriel Perez on November 3, 2008 at 6:27pm

I decided to write about nikola testa because he was a great inventor and the father of electricity as we know it.. because he was the one that propoused alternate current. Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла) (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Croatian Krajina, Austrian Empire, he was an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later became an American citizen. Tesla is often described as the most important scientist and inventor of the modern age, a man who "shed light over the face of Earth". He is best known for many revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution. Contemporary biographers of Tesla have regarded him as "The Father of Physics", "The man who invented the twentieth century" and "the patron saint of modern electricity."
After his demonstration of wireless communication (radio) in 1894 and after being the victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers who worked in America. Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. During this period, in the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or popular culture, but due to his eccentric personality and his seemingly unbelievable and sometimes bizarre claims about possible scientific and technological developments, Tesla was ultimately ostracized and regarded as a mad scientist. Never having put much focus on his finances, Tesla died impoverished at the age of 86.
The SI unit measuring magnetic flux density or magnetic induction (commonly known as the magnetic field B), the tesla, was named in his honour (at the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures, Paris, 1960), as well as the Tesla effect of wireless energy transfer to wirelessly power electronic devices which Tesla demonstrated on a low scale (lightbulbs) as early as 1893 and aspired to use for the intercontinental transmission of industrial energy levels in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project.
Aside from his work on electromagnetism and electromechanical engineering, Tesla has contributed in varying degrees to the establishment of robotics, remote control, radar and computer science, and to the expansion of ballistics, nuclear physics, and theoretical physics. In 1943, the Supreme Court of the United States credited him as being the inventor of the radio. Many of his achievements have been used, with some controversy, to support various pseudosciences, UFO theories, and early New Age occultism.
Tesla is honored in Serbia and Croatia, as well as in the Czech Republic. He was awarded the highest order of the White Lion by Czechoslovakia.

Comment by Luis Rossi on November 3, 2008 at 2:45pm

At this time I would like to talk to you about an important men that i admire I choose Thomas Edison because i think he was very intelligent. He worked on many inventions as the lightbulb and he even developed forms of electric lighting. I like him because he was always looking for discovering new things and thanks to that, today we can enjoy the benefits of the lightbulb.
Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio; the seventh and last child of Samuel and Nancy Edison. When Edison was seven his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan. Edison lived here until he struck out on his own at the age of sixteen. Edison had very little formal education as a child, attending school only for a few months. He was taught reading, writing, and arithmetic by his mother, but was always a very curious child and taught himself much by reading on his own. This belief in self-improvement remained throughout his life.

Comment by ALIRIO RINCON on November 3, 2008 at 12:53pm

In my field I look up to: Neil Alden Armstrong I choose him for many reasons. He became the first man to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969, at 10:56 p.m. EDT. He and "Buzz" Aldren spent about two and one-half hours walking on the moon. I really apreciate that because I's difficult get there.
Neil Armstrong received his B.S. in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University and an M.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California.
Also He is a lot of things He is an american astronaut, university professor, test pilot, etc.
So that's what I think that this person I look up in my field, in my expertise area Indutrial engineer.

Well, Here's a litle information about him:
Neil Alden Armstrong born in August 5, 1930 is a former American astronaut, test pilot, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator. He is the first person to set foot on the Moon. His first spaceflight was aboard Gemini 8 in 1966, for which he was the command pilot. On this mission, he performed the first manned docking of two spacecraft together with pilot David Scott. Armstrong's second and last spaceflight was as mission commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission on July 20, 1969. On this mission, Armstrong and Buzz Alldrin descended to the lunar surface and spent 2½ hours exploring while Michael Collins remained in orbit in the Command Module. Armstrong is a recipient of the
Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was in the
United States Navy and saw action in the Korean War.
After the war, he served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committe for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station, now known as the
Dryden Fligth Research Center, where he flew over 900 flights in a variety of aircraft. As a research pilot, Armstrong served as project pilot on the F-100 Super Sabre A and C aircraft, F-101 Voodoo, and the Lockheed F-104A Starfighter. He graduated from Purdue University.

Comment by Marilenis Montero on November 2, 2008 at 8:57pm

In this opportunity i wanna write about the women i admire she's Elena Salgado Minister of Health. it's a great women , industrial engineer that has been doing greats things.. Well here's a little information about her.. Elena Salgado, Spain's Health Minister, is 55 years old and was born in Ourense. She has two degrees, one in Industrial Engineering which she obtained at the University Polytechnic of Madrid, and the second in Economics obtained at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Ms Salgado has sat on the board of directors of several public and private companies, including Hispasat, Telefónica, Retevisión, Correos y Telégrafos (Spanish Post Office) and Caja Postal.
Elena Salgado has worked in three different ministries during her career (the Ministry of Health is her fourth). She directed the Department of Studies in the Institute of Small and Medium-sized Businesses in the Ministry of Industry in the early 1980s. She was appointed General Director of Personel Costs and State Pensions in 1985 in the Ministry of Economics and Finance. And in 1991 she was appointed Secretary of State for Communications in the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Environment and served in this post during the last term of Felipe Gonzalez's government.
In her free time the Spanish Health Minister enjoys going to the cinema. She is a firm believer in the power of Internet and new technologies, and once said she believed that "every village in Spain should have access to Internet".

Comment by Adriana Romero on October 30, 2008 at 7:05am

Shakira founded Pies Descalzos to help the needed. The goal is to bring food and help the poor. Shakira was in Armenia(Quindio) where a big earthquake took thousands of lives and left many people without a place to live. She also helped when Huracans Mitch and George hit Central-America. She also created Schools and Hospitals for families with a low income.
Shakira said: "Pies descalzos is an association that was created at the end of 1997, there we do activities to collect money, this money goes to the foundations that help the poor unprotected children of my country, Places that help children with heart conditions, with aids, leuchimia, and the homeless children and, also children whose father had died in combat
lPies Descalzos has the goal to protect the homeless children. I Have not yet achieved all my dreams with this foundation, but at least we have placed the first rock. I had a concert in "El Campin" and all the money went to different places that help the children in Colombia. That is My dream: make someday my carreer go beyond and get people to work with me in this ship because we have to put our eyes in our children, besides my maternal instint is very strong.

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