Hello, I´m going to talk about the history of the Olympic Games. I hope you´ll enjoy my post.
Since it began, more than two thousand years ago, the Olympic Games have been the competition grounds for the worlds greatest athletes.
In 776 B.C. the early Olympic Games began in ancient Greece. The prize the winners received included free food and lodging for life. Winners were mentioned in poems, their figures set in sculpture, and their achievements known throughout Greece. To put it simply, winning the Olympic games made you a hero.Even being at the Games was an honor. People from Italy, Sicily, Asia, Africa, and Spain all made the long journey to Olympia. All the famous people of the time attended the Games.
Originally there was only one race, a sprint, and the prize for the winner was an olive wreath. As time went on, other races were added, as were other sports, including boxing and wrestling. Among the more unusual events were the race in armor and the apene race, in which a chariot was pulled not by horses, but by mules.
Luquitas
Sunday, 10 August 2008
McDonald's
Mcdonald's is a famous restaurant chain established in the United States and specializes in fast food. It's mascot is the clown Ronald Mcdonald. It's one of the most famous companies in the world.
The companie began in 1940 with Dick and Mac Mcdonald, who in 1948 introducted the fast food and in 1955 they made their first frabchise, assumed by the executive Ray Kroc.Over the years it has transform in one of the most reconised fast food restaurnts over the world becoming a symbol of the United States.
The first latinamerican country to have Mcdonald's was Costa Rica in 1970.In Mexico opened in 1985 at south of Mexico City, in 2007 there are almost 335 stores over Mexico.In Argentina opened in 1985 in Buenos Aires Cabildo Avenue. In Venezuela the first McDonald's was opened on August 31 of 195 in Caracas.In 2007 there were 130 restaurants over the country, and 55 of them are in Caracas.In Chile opened in 1990,in Uruguay in 1991 at the Montevideo Shopping, in Colombia in 1995 in Bogota Center and today it there are 20 stores only in the capital. In Peru it opened in 1996 and in Ecuador in 1998.
Saturday, 9 August 2008
Free post by Marianela
The story of the cigarette:
The first Europeans who arrived to America saw that the natives were smoking leafs of tobacco, so they inserted this practice in Europe in the century XVI. But in the century XX this modal change because each smoker consumed more than a thousand of cigarettes in a year. The society thought that the tobacco take out stress and it didn’t have injurious efects. During the II Mundial War the doctors recommended to send cigarettes to the soldiers.
But, the scientifics don’t take a long time to realize that the Cancer lung had been increased in 1930. The experimental studios with animals’ demonstrated that lot of the chemical substances what contain the cigarettes’ smoke are cancerous.
The first measures:
• In 1964, the cigarettes’ packet included an warning.
• In 1969, this warning bolstered up until been in this way: “The Sanitation Authorities advised that the tobacco damage seriously the health”.
• In 1971, prohibited cigarettes’ publicity in radios and televisions.
• In 1970 y 1980, lot of towns and states approved laws what demanded reserved spaces for smokers in public and work places.
• In 1990, a federal law prohibited to smoke in all national flights what last at least of six hours.
Ana Claudia: This post is actually Marianela's, she couldn't post it, so I am doing that for her. Bye!
The first Europeans who arrived to America saw that the natives were smoking leafs of tobacco, so they inserted this practice in Europe in the century XVI. But in the century XX this modal change because each smoker consumed more than a thousand of cigarettes in a year. The society thought that the tobacco take out stress and it didn’t have injurious efects. During the II Mundial War the doctors recommended to send cigarettes to the soldiers.
But, the scientifics don’t take a long time to realize that the Cancer lung had been increased in 1930. The experimental studios with animals’ demonstrated that lot of the chemical substances what contain the cigarettes’ smoke are cancerous.
The first measures:
• In 1964, the cigarettes’ packet included an warning.
• In 1969, this warning bolstered up until been in this way: “The Sanitation Authorities advised that the tobacco damage seriously the health”.
• In 1971, prohibited cigarettes’ publicity in radios and televisions.
• In 1970 y 1980, lot of towns and states approved laws what demanded reserved spaces for smokers in public and work places.
• In 1990, a federal law prohibited to smoke in all national flights what last at least of six hours.
Ana Claudia: This post is actually Marianela's, she couldn't post it, so I am doing that for her. Bye!
Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Volleyball :D
hello everybody!
Today's post is going to be about my favourite sport, the volleyball. I've been practicing it since i was 11 and i hope i'll enjoy playing it for many more years!
Volleyball is an Olympic team sport in which two teams of six active players, separated by a high net, each try to score points against one another by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.
The complete rules of volleyball are extensive, but in general, play proceeds as follows: points are scored by grounding the ball on the opponents' court, or when the opponent commits a fault. The first team to reach 25 points wins the set and the first team to win three sets wins the match. Teams can contact the ball no more than three times before the ball crosses the net, and consecutive contacts must be made by different players. The ball is usually played with the hands or arms, but players can legally strike or push (short contact) the ball with any part of the body.
Through time, volleyball has developed to involve common techniques of spiking, passing, blocking, and setting, as well as specialised player positions and offensive and defensive structures. Because many plays are made above the top of the net, vertical jumping is an athletic skill emphasised in volleyball. This article focuses on competitive indoor volleyball, which is carefully regulated and played indoors. Numerous variations of volleyball have developed for casual play, as has the Olympic spin-off sport beach volleyball.
The complete rules of volleyball are extensive, but in general, play proceeds as follows: points are scored by grounding the ball on the opponents' court, or when the opponent commits a fault. The first team to reach 25 points wins the set and the first team to win three sets wins the match. Teams can contact the ball no more than three times before the ball crosses the net, and consecutive contacts must be made by different players. The ball is usually played with the hands or arms, but players can legally strike or push (short contact) the ball with any part of the body.
Through time, volleyball has developed to involve common techniques of spiking, passing, blocking, and setting, as well as specialised player positions and offensive and defensive structures. Because many plays are made above the top of the net, vertical jumping is an athletic skill emphasised in volleyball. This article focuses on competitive indoor volleyball, which is carefully regulated and played indoors. Numerous variations of volleyball have developed for casual play, as has the Olympic spin-off sport beach volleyball.
Well, thats all!
I hope you enjoy it!
See you!
This is my and my team previous to a match!
I'm in the back-left playing around with the ball :P
bye!
Fran Contin
Monday, 4 August 2008
Free Post =D
Well here is my Free post and i'm going to talk about Snowboarding.
The first modern snowboard was arguably the Snurfer (a portmanteau of snow and surfer), originally designed by Sherman Poppen for his children in 1965 in Muskegon, Michigan. Poppen’s Snurfer started to be manufactured as a toy the following year. It was essentially a skateboard without wheels, steered by a hand-held rope, and lacked bindings, but had provisions to cause footwear to adhere.
During the 1970s and 1980s as snowboarding became more popular, pioneers such as Dimitrije Milovich, Jake Burton Carpenter (founder of Burton Snowboards from Londonderry, Vermont), Tom Sims (founder of Sims Snowboards) and Mike Olson (GNU Snowboards) came up with new designs for boards and mechanisms that had slowly developed into the snowboards and other related equipment that we know today.
Dimitrije Milovich, an east coast surfer, had the idea of sliding on cafeteria trays. From this he started developing his snowboard designs. In 1972, he started a company called the Winterstick, which was mentioned in 1975 by Newsweek magazine. The Winterstick was based on the design and feel of a surfboard, but worked the same way as skis.
In the spring of 1976 Welsh skateboarders Jon Roberts and Pete Matthews developed a Plywood deck with foot bindings for use on the Dry Ski Slope at the school camp, Ogmore-by-Sea, Wales. UK. Further development of the board was limited as Matthews suffered serious injury whilst boarding at Ogmore and access for the boarders was declined following the incident. The 'deck' was much shorter than current snow boards. Bevelled edges and a convex, polyurethane varnished bottom to the board, allowed quick downhill movement, but limited turning ability.
In 1979 the first ever World Snurfing Championship was held at Pando Ski Lodge near Grand Rapids, Michigan. Jake Burton Carpenter, came from Vermont to compete with a snowboard of his own design. There were many protests from the competitors about Jake entering with a non-snurfer board. Paul Graves, the top snurfer at the time, and others, advocated that Jake be allowed to race. A modified division was created and won by Jake as the sole entrant. That race was considered the first competition for snowboards and is the birth of what has now become competitive snowboarding.
In 1982 the first National Snowboard race was held near Woodstock, Vermont at Suicide Six.
In 1983, the first World Championship halfpipe competition was held at Soda Springs, California. Tom Sims, founder of Sims Snowboards, organized the event with the help of Mike Chantry a snowboard instructor at Soda Springs.
Snowboarding's growing popularity is reflected in its recognition as an official sport: in 1985, the first World Cup was held in Zürs, Austria. The International Snowboard Association (ISA) was founded in 1994 to provide universal contest regulations. Today, high-profile snowboarding events like the Olympic Games, Winter X-Games, US Open, and other events are broadcast worldwide. Many alpine resorts have terrain parks. The sport has also had an impact in countries that are largely without snow, such as Australia.
The first modern snowboard was arguably the Snurfer (a portmanteau of snow and surfer), originally designed by Sherman Poppen for his children in 1965 in Muskegon, Michigan. Poppen’s Snurfer started to be manufactured as a toy the following year. It was essentially a skateboard without wheels, steered by a hand-held rope, and lacked bindings, but had provisions to cause footwear to adhere.
During the 1970s and 1980s as snowboarding became more popular, pioneers such as Dimitrije Milovich, Jake Burton Carpenter (founder of Burton Snowboards from Londonderry, Vermont), Tom Sims (founder of Sims Snowboards) and Mike Olson (GNU Snowboards) came up with new designs for boards and mechanisms that had slowly developed into the snowboards and other related equipment that we know today.
Dimitrije Milovich, an east coast surfer, had the idea of sliding on cafeteria trays. From this he started developing his snowboard designs. In 1972, he started a company called the Winterstick, which was mentioned in 1975 by Newsweek magazine. The Winterstick was based on the design and feel of a surfboard, but worked the same way as skis.
In the spring of 1976 Welsh skateboarders Jon Roberts and Pete Matthews developed a Plywood deck with foot bindings for use on the Dry Ski Slope at the school camp, Ogmore-by-Sea, Wales. UK. Further development of the board was limited as Matthews suffered serious injury whilst boarding at Ogmore and access for the boarders was declined following the incident. The 'deck' was much shorter than current snow boards. Bevelled edges and a convex, polyurethane varnished bottom to the board, allowed quick downhill movement, but limited turning ability.
In 1979 the first ever World Snurfing Championship was held at Pando Ski Lodge near Grand Rapids, Michigan. Jake Burton Carpenter, came from Vermont to compete with a snowboard of his own design. There were many protests from the competitors about Jake entering with a non-snurfer board. Paul Graves, the top snurfer at the time, and others, advocated that Jake be allowed to race. A modified division was created and won by Jake as the sole entrant. That race was considered the first competition for snowboards and is the birth of what has now become competitive snowboarding.
In 1982 the first National Snowboard race was held near Woodstock, Vermont at Suicide Six.
In 1983, the first World Championship halfpipe competition was held at Soda Springs, California. Tom Sims, founder of Sims Snowboards, organized the event with the help of Mike Chantry a snowboard instructor at Soda Springs.
Snowboarding's growing popularity is reflected in its recognition as an official sport: in 1985, the first World Cup was held in Zürs, Austria. The International Snowboard Association (ISA) was founded in 1994 to provide universal contest regulations. Today, high-profile snowboarding events like the Olympic Games, Winter X-Games, US Open, and other events are broadcast worldwide. Many alpine resorts have terrain parks. The sport has also had an impact in countries that are largely without snow, such as Australia.
Sunday, 3 August 2008
Anorexia and bulimia
Anorexic people are afraid to get fat, they want to be thin and have a perfect figure that’s why they are to much concentrate with their weight and their look. They are always cold people and they like to be alone, avoiding contact with friends and relatives.
Anorexia starts when there is a crisis of personality or problems with the family. Most of the anorexics are women and they try to improve themselves more and more, controlling their weight and vomiting are the most important events in their life.Those that vomit have a different disease, call bulimia. This disease is which they eat compulsively and soon they vomit it.
It usually affects in people before de age 25 (usually in adolescent age, between 15 an 18 years). Studies have show that the 5% adolescent population is affected by alimentary disorders.
Anorexics Symptoms:
1.- Don’t want to keep their weight
2.-Vomitate
3.-Start eating less and less
4.- Can’t concentrate in their studies
5.- Lose their menstruatin
6.- People feel cold, lose their hair...
Etc...
Anorexics Treatments:
• The best treatment is a group therapy
• Talking about the problem
• Help of the family
• And the more important is adquiring the right eatingattitude
Bulimia Symptoms:
1.- Eating with out control
2.- Feeling that it’s impossible to stop eating
3.- Fasting to compensate for previous over eating
4.- Inducing vomits that are denied
5.- Abusing of laxatives and diuretics
6.- Problems with theeth
7.- Changes of humor and deppresions
Bulimia Treatments:
• The best treatment is group or individual therapy
• Then, adquiring the right eating actitude
• The bulimy there is a pharmacologic treatment
• The most affective are antidepressants
Anorexia starts when there is a crisis of personality or problems with the family. Most of the anorexics are women and they try to improve themselves more and more, controlling their weight and vomiting are the most important events in their life.Those that vomit have a different disease, call bulimia. This disease is which they eat compulsively and soon they vomit it.
It usually affects in people before de age 25 (usually in adolescent age, between 15 an 18 years). Studies have show that the 5% adolescent population is affected by alimentary disorders.
Anorexics Symptoms:
1.- Don’t want to keep their weight
2.-Vomitate
3.-Start eating less and less
4.- Can’t concentrate in their studies
5.- Lose their menstruatin
6.- People feel cold, lose their hair...
Etc...
Anorexics Treatments:
• The best treatment is a group therapy
• Talking about the problem
• Help of the family
• And the more important is adquiring the right eatingattitude
Bulimia Symptoms:
1.- Eating with out control
2.- Feeling that it’s impossible to stop eating
3.- Fasting to compensate for previous over eating
4.- Inducing vomits that are denied
5.- Abusing of laxatives and diuretics
6.- Problems with theeth
7.- Changes of humor and deppresions
Bulimia Treatments:
• The best treatment is group or individual therapy
• Then, adquiring the right eating actitude
• The bulimy there is a pharmacologic treatment
• The most affective are antidepressants
Spinetta- By Marcos
Luis Alberto Spinetta (born January 23, 1950), is an Argentine musician. He is one of the most influential rock musicians of Latin America, and together with Charly García is considered the father of Argentine rock. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the residential neighbourhood of Belgrano. As a kid he listened to all kinds of music: folklore and tango, and a little bit later, rock. As with almost every other rocker of his generation, The Beatles
would change his life. In 1967, in the midst of a repressive political climate, he formed a band called Almendra with school mates.
Contrasting with the backwards and authoritarian government of General Juan Carlos Onganía, Argentina and especially Buenos Aires was undergoing a cultural blossoming based on new art expressions; the new generation, the sons of the middle class, was immersed in an effervescence that would not reappear in Argentina until 1983. Spinetta was part and later an exponent of that blossoming and rebellious youth that would express itself both through the arms and the arts. Spinetta devoted fully to the latter path, although he briefly became involved with left-wing political movements.
It was 1969 and his band, "Almendra", recorded their first album. The band started recording and playing intensely and it became successful almost overnight. Almendra composed its own songs and the lyrics were in Spanish (something radically new). The subtlety and beauty of their sound would be one of the milestones (maybe the first) of Argentine rock. After two albums that enjoyed radio diffusion and deserved fame, the band split. Spinetta composed and recorded a new solo album, but an inadequate environment (he would later say that the mood of Argentine rock and rockers of those times were too "heavy" and negative for him) and the vast changes that success effected on his life made him leave the country.
After a lengthy stay in Europe, he returned to Argentina and formed a new band: "Pescado Rabioso". It was destined to be as mythical as Almendra. With a far more powerful sound and expressing the tension in the streets of an increasingly violent Argentina, Pescado recorded its first album in 1972. It was both a continuation of the creative stream of Spinetta and a drastic change in the style of his music and lyrics. The band recorded a second album; although a third one carried its name, Pescado was by then dissolved; Artaud, recorded in 1973 and mostly a solo album by Spinetta, was a major breakthrough. Partly based on the writings of Antonin Artaud, Spinetta exorcised many of the demons of his past in this album. This process would open the door to a new era in his music.
In 1974 he formed a new band, "Invisible". With his new band he recorded three albums; Invisible, Durazno Sangrando (together with Artaud, hailed as his best album ever), and El Jardín De Los Presentes. With Invisible, he left the powerful and rough sound of Pescado; the new tunes were more harmonic, soft and mellow, yet his work remained essential and revolutionary. Following this line, he embarked on a solo project, A 18´ del Sol, after dissolving Invisible in 1976–77. By then, ten years later after starting his career, his style had become a delicate amalgam of old and new; the old pop and (proto) heavy rock had merged with various elements of jazz and bossa nova. That unique flavour would become his style during the next half decade.
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