Universidad Dual Empresarial 2008

My Time

2008-05-09T07:50:00.002-05:00

University
My classroom starts in the morning at 7 o’clock and finish 13 o’clock. I study in “Universidad de Cuenca” in Berufsakademie, it is a international program. Also I study for the afternoon at 15 and finished 17 o’clock, generally. My university is very exigent. The majority of my time I am in the university. Here I share experiences whit my friends.
Family
The time with my family is very little for my studies. I share whit my partners in the lunch at 14 o’clockwhen I arrive of the university. It is only a hour because I must be going to study. I love to my family. In the night when all eat we share our experiences. I have two Nephews: Paul y Nataly.
Friends
During the day I am whit my friend in the university also we sometimes have lunch together. And in the breaks we share our Events.
Only I
I like to think in my: my feelings and appearance. When I get up in the morning I enjoy of taking a shower and I prepare to go to classes. Here is when I think in my, when I look in the mirror!

Time of food
I enjoy the times of tranquility eating healthy food. Also I eat scrap food whit my friend and nephews.
Moment to sleep
I need of 8 hour from to sleep and I am happy.

FURNY'S TIME

2008-05-08T18:14:00.003-05:00

Daily my time is distributed in the next form:

The 78% on my time I go to the university to learn a lot of things which will be good to my future. I study in Berufsakademie and I like a lot my career especially Human Resources and International Business there for I know English is very important for me.
The 11% of my time I spend with my family especially with my parents, my sisters and cousins. With them I watch films on the cinema or on the house. Besides we like to travel to Loja, the place where my father was born, there we walk a lot.

The 9% on my time I spend going out with my friends, now I am close to my berufsakademie’s friends because my free time is a little. We enjoy every moment together.
The 2% on my time is free of responsibilities, it is for me and I enjoy this time sleeping, going out whit my friends or my family.

Spending my time

2008-05-08T16:51:00.014-05:00

I'm Damaris, I'm from Ecuador and I'm 19 years old. I study in the BA University.

My time

I use my time in different things as the school, my time with God, my relax, my sleeping, etc.
A week have only 168 hours, and I distrube this for my things in this way:

Activity Hours at week

Seleeping 50
Studying at school 40
Studying at home 25
Funny and relax 13

God's time 10
Percussion musical instrument 10
Business 10
Help at home 10

Sometimes I wish a week has more than 168 hours.

Has you can see, I use my time sleeping in a 26% for week, round about 50 hours, more than 7 hours each day, I always sleep like a log.

After that, I take 40 hours by stunding at BA University, round about 24% of my time, ahead, is studyng at home, for this I use 25 hours, round about 3:30 hours each day, this represent the 15% of a week.

My funny and relax, indispensable in my life, use 13 hours at week, the 8% of my time. And, the most important, my time with God, I give him not much time, this isn't just... among others activities on weekdays.

What do you think, how I manage my time?

2008-05-08T16:30:00.003-05:00

How I spend my time?

I spend the most of my time attending to classes at Berufsakademie. I attend approximately 7 hours every day since 7 am to 1 pm then I come back at 3 o’clock in the afternoon until 5 pm to take classes.

After university classes I go to English classes at Wall Street Institute I spend 2 hours there every day during the week. The I return home and do homework until 11 pm. After that I watch some TV programs.

Occasionally on Fridays night I go to parties. On Saturdays I do some team homework with my classmates. In the afternoon I go to give classes at the catechism at 3 pm until 6 pm. After that I go out with friends. On Sundays I spend my time doing homework, and going out with my family.

Pie Chart by Galo Ismael Zhunio

2008-05-08T16:21:00.002-05:00

My time is distributed in many activities. In this text I’ll describe the activities most important and regulars on the week.

Berufsakademie: My day star at 6:00 o’clock. I arrive to University at 7:00 o’clock. In the university I start class at 7:00 o’clock. The classes finish at 5:00 pm. Then I do the homework’s and investigations in the night and in the weekend.
Girlfriend: My Girlfriend is the most important person in my live. I go out to lunch and go to the movies in free time.
Travel: In the weekend I travel to Jima by visit my Family. In the Sundays I have lunch with my parents. I return to Cuenca on Sunday in the afternoon.
Watch TV: For the Night I watch TV. I watch specially sports programs.
Play Soccer: In the weekend I play soccer with my cousins and my friends in Jima for the League of this town. My club’s name is “Zeta”. Jima is a small town of the “Sigsig”. My position in the court is in front and my number is 11.
Parties: in the weekend I go to the party. In the weekends my friends celebrate their birthdays. I usually drink a lot and I love to smoke, especially with my friends. In the parties we dance a lot until midnight.

MY ACTIVITIES-------------------

2008-05-08T00:56:00.002-05:00

The university.- I study in Berufsakademie, it is a international program. I have studied in this program for two years. The schedule is very exigent it star al 7:00 am to 5:00pm. We have two hours for lunch.

My Family.- I have contact with my family in half day and nigh. I star a conversation with my mother and my brother about themes the day, they talk about the work and university and the other activities. These conversations are during the diner or when we are watching the TV.

Entertainment.- this activity are parties, play volleyball, visit to old friends, go to the cinema, go to the travel…..

Boyfriend.- We go out the university together , them we go to the walk for the city, and eat fast foot sometimes.

My activities.- contains activities as sleep, watch TV, perform homework, cook. I used to aerobics in the nigh. The weekends I used to walk with my dogs.

By: PaoolaCar

Talk about how you spend your time

2008-05-07T23:19:00.000-05:00

Really, I don´t do a lot of things.
Generally, I get up 7:00 o`clock and I go to Berufsakademie where I stand all the morning. There I have class such as human resources, administration, right, etc.
My partners and I have a break. Generally this break is of one hour. My friends and I eat a lot of snacks, sometimes we buy nutritive food but it is rarely. Besides my friend and I speak about boyfriends and her pregnant. In this time we are happy.
I go to my house at 1:00 p.m. and I walk to my house because I love to do exercise but I don´t have time for do a lot of exercise.
I lunch at 2:00 pm. After, I study Gestation Organizational because I always have lesson.
At 2:30 pm I go walking to Berufsakademie again. There I have class all the afternoon.
After that I finished class. I always go walking with Andrea to my house. We talk about a lot of things when we arrive in my house we drink coffee.
After, Andrea goes to her house. I do homework and I study when I have test. Sometimes, my fiend named Andres goes to my house and we talk a lot.
In the weekend, I sometimes go to parties with my friend. I love dance.
Sometimes my friend and I go to Remigio, restaurants, mall del rio. Always we go with his friends to eat delicious food.
Generally, the Sunday my friend and I go to the Centro Cristiano where we stand all the morning. It is a good time for me.
After I do homework all the Sunday`s afternoon.
Generally I sleep around the six hours for day.

HOW I SPEND MY TIME?

2008-05-07T20:39:00.003-05:00

Hi friends, I want to share to you how I spend my time. First, I have to say that I divided my time in five parts: theoretical phase, practical phase, stay home, church’s activities and friends. When I’m in the theoretical phase, here in the Berusfakademie, I carry out a Schedule; usually it’s from 7 to 12 and from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. For me, it represents the 40% of my time, because to study here is a little hard and I need to be completely quiet to do my activities. However, when I go to the practical phase, I have more time to share other activities with my family and friends, for that reason it represents the 20% of my time.
On weekends, I dedicate a little part of my time to do some activities in the church where I assist, the principal activity is to teach catechism to girls and guys between 12 and 15 years old; and another one is to be part of a foundation that is dedicated to help children who suffer cancer, and for that, we sell some catholic newspaper and cheese and chocolates to get money for the medicines, food and other things. It represents the 15% of my time.
To finish my redaction, I use too some time to stay home with my family. Here, I help in the house activities or I talk to with my mother, my sister, my father; we share with my nieces or my aunts or uncles watching some movies or doing some funny activities. It represents the 15% of my time. And the last one is the time to my friends, sometimes they invited me to go out or I invited them to do any kind of activities; it’s very nice to get out of the routine.

HOW SPEND MY FREE TIME

2008-05-07T19:36:00.004-05:00

this a funny discusion bcause our carrer the last think have is free time, but some times have a time to rest and do a lot of sports, listen music, walk, see a friend, or anly sleep in house, I can clasificata my free time activities in:

sleep
play video games
listen rock music
skatebording with friends
eat, eat , and eat...
watch a movie or only television

an I can put it in this graphic:

spendig mi time in my life

2008-05-07T10:36:00.004-05:00

I have a lot of activities in my day. In a normal day I used things like this.

University: I spend most of time in the university, in the morning I wake up at 6:00 AM, then I take a little shower, and I have breakfast ‘cause the classes stars at 7:00 AM. Then I study there until 12:00 AM, approximately, in the afternoon I return to the university at 3:00 PM until 6:00 PM. Also in the night I have to do my homework and some investigations.

Girlfriend: when I have free time I spend it with my girlfriend, I love her to much, I’m sure that she is the most important person in my whole life, we used to go out to lunch, and almost always in the night we go to eat, and to stay together, that is one of the things that I prefer to do, because it relax me a lot, and gives me energies for doing me things. I’m going to married her in…

Other things: sometimes I used to go to play soccer with my friends, and mi girlfriend goes with me, I like to play basketball too. And when I have vacations in the university I go to Santo Domingo de los Colorados to visit my parents, my brother and my friends.

Beautiful Day

2008-05-07T10:34:00.001-05:00

DISTRIBUTION OF MY TIME

My day is very busy, because I have to make different activities, the same as aid to Berufsakademie very early at 7:00 o’clock am. to 1:00 pm. sometimes. Then I go to eat with my girlfriend by around two hours, and then I return to university at 3:00 pm. to 6:00 pm. sometimes. After that I go to my work at 9:00 pm or 10:00 pm depend of the different transactions occurred in the day. Then I take dinner in my house, after that generally I sleep about 6 or 7 hours.

My life and my time

2008-05-07T10:24:00.002-05:00

My life and my time
I’m twenty three years old, and the last three years have been very important because my life was a chance, this three years, I’m making things new, before the most part of the time, I practice table tennis, and I traveled a lot for the world, I played many tournaments, and I have had training very strong, a lot of time, five hours every day.
Now, I can’t train a lot, because, I’m studing y I’m in the last years for my graduation, in my free time I'm make university homework and now I dedicate only two hours for my train, and only the weekend I see my friends and I share with them, and the rest of my time I stay with my family.

2008-05-07T10:21:00.004-05:00

My daily routine

In a week I usually do the next activities:

I go to the university since 7h00 to 13h00 in this time I attend to the teacher’s lessons.

At 13h00 I return to my house and have lunch.

At 15h00 I have classes again and I stay in the Berufsakademie until 18h00

After that I usually go to my friend’s house and there I do the group homework.

In the weekends I usually go out with my friends. Sometimes I go out to dance and other times only we converse and eat a little.

My Diary Activities

2008-05-07T10:06:00.002-05:00

My Activities diary’s

I study in the Berufsakademie, there I am all day, I am here in the morning from 7:00 am as 13:00 p.m, in the afternoon from 15:00 p.m as 18:00 or 19:00 p.m.

When I finish my class in Berufs, I go my house, here I eat breakfast, lunch at dinner, I am with my family.

My friends and I are meeting for make our homework, tasks and projects
The weekend my friends and I go out of your houses, we go to dancing, entertaing in the discothèque or parties.

Alberto's Time

2008-05-07T09:56:00.003-05:00

How I spend my time….

My regular day is very tight. The principal activity that I do is STUDY. AAlmost the entire day I spend my time in my university. I asist class, I do my homework, I read some books and some articles, I search información at the Internet and things like that. Other activities that I do are: visit my girlfriend, go out with my friends and travel to Machala to see my family. Another small activities like play soccer or watch tv complete my busy day.

In the next pie chart you can see how I spend my time…

Pie Chart

2008-05-07T09:53:00.008-05:00

Pie Chart

I study in the Berufsakademie, I going to every day a university exception Saturday and Sunday. I am here in the morning from 7:00 am as 12:00 or 13:00 p.m, in the afternoon from 15:00 p.m as 18:00 or 19:00 p.m. When I finish my class in University, I go to my house; here I study with my friends or my sister. When I have meeting for make our homework, tasks and projects with my friends. The weekends go out with friends and I clean my house. We go to dance in the disco.

Pie Chart

2008-05-07T09:44:00.002-05:00

Pie Chart

My time as a student of Berufsakademie Program is very restricted. We don’t have too much time to have fun but we do what we can do.

Usually I am in class 8 hours a day what represent 33% of the time in a say. Sleeping is another activity what takes some time. I try to sleep 8 hours a day. Doing homework is a very important thing to do when you are a Berufsakademie student. I am used to do homework 5 hours a day. It represents 20, 83%.

Then surfing in the internet making research is important too, that is why I take 2 hours of my time to surf. And finally I have to spend some time hanging out with my friends at least one hour.

HOW I SPEND MY TIME...?

2008-05-07T06:03:00.003-05:00

I generally spend my time studying. Of Monday to Friday I study from 7:00 am to 1:00 pm and after from 3:00 pm at 6:00 pm in the Berufsakademie. At noon I have to go to my home to make the lunch. After 6:00 pm I go to my house to make the dinner. After the dinner I see some television and I also begin to make my homework. I don't sleep at an exact hour because it depends on the quantity of homework that I have to make. I generally sleep 4 or 5 daily hours.

I sometimes travel to Machala the weekends. In Machala I visit to my family. I also go for a walk with my boyfriend. We go to the cinema, to the port or we leave to eat outside. In Machala, I sometimes visit my friends and we leave to take an ice cream or to dance.

I spend little time with my friends; however when we have to make tasks in group we have a good time a lot. In my little free time I read books or I watch movies.

I think, that in percentages, the 60% of my time I spend studying; the other 15% I pass whit my friends and doing activities together; the 10% I pass with my family, the 5% I watch tv, and the last 10% in others activities for example sleep, to read…

Daysi's Time

2008-05-06T13:23:00.004-05:00

Daysi s Time

Every week I go to the university five days in the week, generally 9 hours per day. I carry out my homeworks, tasks and projects 4 hours average per day. I dedicate more time to sleep on Saturday, I Use 30 minutes average to have breakfast, to eat lunch and to dinner for each food every day of the week.

To fix my bedroom, to clean the house, to wash my clothes and to wash plates I dedicate daily 2 hours average.

Finally I dedicate approximately one hour and thirty minutes of Monday to Friday to rest; however on Saturdays and Sundays I dedicate near 8 hours of my available time to relax.

Daysi's Time

2008-05-06T13:08:00.003-05:00

Daysi's Time

Every week I go to the university five days in the week, generally 9 hours per day. I carry out my homeworks, tasks and projects 4 hours average per day. I dedicate more time to sleep on Saturday, I Use 30 minutes average to have breakfast, to eat lunch and to dinner for each food every day of the week.

To fix my bedroom, to clean the house, to wash my clothes and to wash plates I dedicate daily 2 hours average.

Finally I dedicate approximately one hour and thirty minutes of Monday to Friday to rest; however on Saturdays and Sundays I dedicate near 8 hours of my available time to relax.

How I Spend My Time……………..?

2008-05-05T11:22:00.003-05:00

Most takes my time the step in the Berufakademie where I go to classes the mornings and I am 5 hours and I also have in the afternoon 3 hours more, after going I leave and I will study and to make my duty. Generally in the nights convert with my friends to ask them as gone them in the weekend. I also see a bit gives television or I listen music at threatened night I fall asleep.

The weekends I leave to the parties that I have with my friends, otherwise we leave to the Remigio, the one that I look for is to clear the mind and to feel well, on Saturdays I am with my mom and my new sister that was born two and a half months ago, many give the times the weekend I dedicate to the sport that I like a lot, I practice the cycling and the swimming, on Sundays generally rest or I make the duties and work slopes.

2008-05-04T15:48:00.001-05:00

HOW I SPEND MY TIME??

Well, a lot of my time I spend in BA, because I study in the morning, and in the afternoon, after that I go home and talking with my family for everything topic. Then I do my homeworks. It's the same routine Monday to Friday, but in the weekend, I go out with my friends or my family, and On Sunday I read the newspaper or some interesting book. On Sunday nigth I do my homeworks for Monday.

GYMNASTIC

2008-04-30T22:37:00.014-05:00

GYMNASTIC

Gymnastics is a sport that involves the realization of exercises requiring physical strength, agility, ability and coordination. The modern form of gymnastics typically involves exercises on uneven bars, balance beam, floor exercise, and rings.

The gymnastics has its origin in the classic Greece, where it was an educational method of the body that included the hygiene, the exercises, the feeding and the sacrifice spirit. Quite later, in the first half of the XIX century, the German Fiedrich Ludwig Jahn included the gymnastics how a method of physical formation thinking that was fundamental in the integral development of the youths.

However, in that time in this sport were not competitions, but rather manifestations or gymnastic shows with big concentrations of gymnasts that made surprising exercises to please the public. But then, when they began to be compared, the gymnastics competitions arose.

TYPES OF GYMNASTICS

Artistic or sport gymnastics

It is the oldest and it is based on turns, balances and jumps in the floor or in apparatuses. The official competition is made in the floor, rings, pony with arches, and bars.

Rhythmic gymnastics

It is fundamental the rhythm, for that reason takes that name, and it is that all the exercises are made with music. It is made in the floor with maces, rope, hoop, ball or tape.

Elastic bed

It implies a great corporal domain because movements are made in the space, without more support than the air. It is to make different jumps of considerable height and to make the most incredible twirls.

Comment:

I like the gymnastics a lot because I wanted to be a gymnast. When I was in the high school I integrated to the cheerleaders group where I learned some things about gymnastics.

One of my favorite gymnasts is Nadia Comaneci. Nadia was the best gymnast in her time.

AJEDREZ A STRATEGIC GAME

2008-04-30T11:07:00.009-05:00

Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two players.
Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide in clubs, online, by correspondence, in tournaments and informally.

History

Chess originated in India ,where its early form in the 6th century was chaturanga , which translates as "four divisions of the military" – infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariots, represented respectively by pawn, knight, bishop, and rook.

The game reached Western Europe and Russia by at least three routes, the earliest being in the 9th century.

By the year 1000 it had spread throughout Europe. Introduced into the Iberian Peninsula by the Moors in the 10th century, it was described in a famous 13th century manuscript covering shatranj, backgammon , and dice named the Libro de los juegos .

The tradition of organized competitive chess started in the sixteenth century and has developed extensively. Chess today is a recognized sport of the International Olympic Committee. The first official World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886; Viswanathan Anand is the current World Champion. Theoreticians have developed extensive chess strategies and tactics since the game's inception.
Birth of a sport (1850–1945)

The first modern chess tournament was held in London in 1851 and won, surprisingly, by German Adolf Anderssen , relatively unknown at the time.

Anderssen was hailed as the leading chess master and his brilliant, energetic — but from today's viewpoint strategically shallow — attacking style became typical for the time.

Place in culture

Pre-modern

In the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance , chess was a part of noble culture; it was used to teach war strategy and was dubbed the " King's Game ".

Modern

The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or the want of it.
With these or similar hopes, chess is taught to children in schools around the world today and used in armies to train minds of cadets and officers. Many schools hold chess clubs and there are many scholastic tournaments specifically for children.

The game is played on a square chequered chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight square. At the start, each player (one controlling the white pieces, the other controlling the black pieces) controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king, whereby the king is under immediate attack (in "check") and there is no way to remove it from attack on the next move. White moves first.

The colors are chosen either by a friendly agreement, by a game of chance or by a tournament director.

Pieces are moved to either an unoccupied square, or one occupied by an opponent's piece, capturing it and removing it from play.

When a king is under immediate attack by the opponent's pieces, the king is said to be in check .
When in check, only moves that result in a position in which the king is not in check are permitted.

Each player must not make any move that would place their king in check.
The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent; this occurs when the opponent's king is in check, and there is no way to remove the king from attack.

Each chess piece has its own style of moving. If there is an opponent's piece at the destination square, then moving piece can capture the opponent's piece

BOSSABALL

2008-04-30T10:42:00.002-05:00

BOSSABALL

What is Bossaball?
It’s a sport that appeared in Belgium but it’s practiced

in the beaches of countries such as Brazil, Netherlands,

Spain and Ecuador. It combines soccer; gymnastics, capoeira and volleyball, and its rulers are based in the same rulers of volleyball.
Bossaball is played on inflatable barriers divided by a net. Each side of the court has an integrated trampoline that permits players to bounce high enough to spike the ball.

How to play the game?

There are two teams; each one is formed by 3 to 5 players.

The first one, the attacker is positioned in the trampoline, the others around him on the inflatable.

The server throws or kicks the ball into the air and

attempts to hit the ball so it passes over the net on a
course such that it will land in the opposing team's court (the serve).

The opposing team must use a combination of no more than 8 contacts with the ball to return it to the opponent's side of the net. These contacts can be exercised using any body part (maximum 2 successive contacts with the head or feet, maximum one contact with the hands). During a rally the ball is tossed around while the attacker jumps on the trampoline in order to gain height. The attack begins when one of the rallying players aims the ball's trajectory towards a spot in the air where the attacker can hit it (spike or kick) and returns the ball over the net.
The team with possession of the ball that is trying to attack the ball as described is said to be on offense. The team on defense attempts to prevent the attacker from directing the ball into their court: players at the net jump and reach above the top (and across the plane) of the net in order to block the attacked ball. If the ball is hit around, above, or through the block, the defensive players arranged in the rest of the court attempt to control the ball with a dig (usually a fore-arm pass of a hard-driven ball, or a foot control). After a successful dig, the team transitions to offense.
The game continues in this manner, rallying back and forth, until the ball touches the court within the scoring zones.

Scoring
When the ball contacts the floor (the bottom of the trampoline or the inflatables) within the court boundaries, the team on the opposite side of the net is awarded a score. 3 Points are assigned for scoring on the trampoline. 1 point is assigned for scoring on the inflatable cushions, except for the bossa wall which is the ring around the trampoline. When the ball touches the bossa wall the rally continues.
The team that scored serves for the next point. If the team that scored served in the previous point, the same player serves again. If the team that scored did not serve the previous point, the players of the team rotate their position on the court in a clockwise manner. The game continues, with the first team to score 25 points (and be two points ahead) awarded the set. 3 sets are played in one match.

2008-04-17T11:16:00.000-05:00

Parachuting

2008-04-17T10:52:00.009-05:00

Parachuting is an activity involving a preplanned drop from a height using a deployable parachute.
One type of parachuting is skydiving, which is recreational parachuting, also called sport parachuting.
During the tandem jump the jumpmaster is responsible for the stable exit, maintaining a proper stable freefall position, and activating and controlling the parachute. With training and experience, the fear of the first few jumps is supplanted by the tact of controlling fear so that one may come to experience the satisfaction of mastering aerial skills and performing increasingly complicated maneuvers in the sky with friends.

Skills

Tandem and Camera Flyer Exit a Twin Otter
Parachuting has complex skills that can take thousands of jumps to master, but the basics are often fully understood and useful during the first few jumps. There are four basic areas of skill: basic safety, free fall maneuvers, parachute operation, and landing.

Parachute operation and landing

White sand circular target at a drop zone
The decision of when to deploy the parachute is a matter of safety. A parachute should be deployed sufficiently high to give the parachutist time to handle a malfunction, should one occur. 600 metres (1,970 ft) is the practical minimum for advanced skydivers. Skydivers monitor their altimeters during freefall to decide when to break off from the formation (if applicable) and when to open their parachutes. Many skydivers open higher to practice their parachute flying skills. During a "hop-and-pop", a jump in which the parachute is deployed immediately upon exiting the aircraft, it is not uncommon to be under canopy as high as 1200 to 1500 meters (4000 to 5000 ft).
Parachute flying involves two basic challenges. Firstly to avoid injury and secondly to land where planned, often on a designated target. Some experienced skydivers enjoy performing aerobatic maneuvers with parachutes, the most notable being the "Swoop". This is a thrilling, but dangerous maneuver entailing a steep, high speed landing approach, before leveling off a couple of feet above the ground to maintain a fast glide parallel to the surface. Swoops as far as 180 metres (590 ft) have been achieved.

Types

There are several different disciplines to embrace within parachuting. Each of these is enjoyed by both the recreational (weekend) and the competitive participants. There is even a small group of professionals who earn their living with parachuting. They win competitions having cash prizes or are employed or sponsored by skydiving related manufacturers.
Parachutists can participate both in competitive and in purely recreational skydiving events. World championships are held regularly in locations offering flat terrain and clear skies. An exception is Paraski, where winter weather and ski-hill terrain are required.

Canyoning

2008-04-17T10:46:00.008-05:00

Canyoning (known as canyoneering in the U.S.) is traveling in canyons using a variety of techniques that may include walking, scrambling, climbing, jumping, abseiling, and swimming.

Although hiking down a canyon that is non-technical is often referred to as canyoneering, the terms canyoning and canyoneering are more often associated with technical descents those that require rappels and ropework, technical climbing or down-climbing, technical jumps, or technical swims.

Canyoning is frequently done in remote and rugged settings and often requires navigational, route-finding and other wilderness travel skills.
Canyons that are ideal for canyoning are often cut into the bedrock stone, forming narrow gorges with numerous drops, beautifully sculpted walls, and sometimes spectacular waterfalls. Most canyons are cut into limestone, sandstone, granite or basalt, though other rock types are found.

Canyons can be very easy or extremely difficult, though emphasis in the sport is usually on aesthetics and fun rather than pure difficulty. A wide variety of canyoning routes are found throughout the world, and canyoning is enjoyed by people of all ages and skill levels.

Canyoning gear includes climbing hardware, static ropes, helmets, wetsuits, and specially designed shoes, packs, and rope bags. While canyoners have used and adapted climbing, hiking, and river running gear for years, more and more specialized gear is invented and manufactured as canyoning popularity increases.

Picture below in Costa Rica

In most parts of the world canyoning is done in mountain canyons with flowing water. Countries with established canyoning include: Portugal, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Reunion Island, Greece (Crete), Jordan, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Ecuador, Japan, Croatia, Turkey, Israel, Mauritius and the United States. Many canyons in South Africa require jumping or scrambling which is called Kloofing. Even in Hong Kong, where there are numerous stream gorges, a similar activity called stream or river trekking is popular. In Japan and Taiwan it's called river tracing and typically involves traveling upstream.

can you play volley???

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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 history of Olympic volleyball can be traced back to the 1924 summer olympics in Paris, where volleyball was played as part of an American sports demonstration event. After the foundation of FIVB and some continental confederations, it began to be considered for official inclusion. The competition was a success, and the sport was officially included in the program for the 1964 Summer Oplympic.

The Olympic volleyball tournament was originally a simple competition, whose format paralleled the one still employed in the World Cup: all teams played against each other team and then were ranked by wins, set average, and point average. One disadvantage of this round-robin system is that medal winners could be determined before the end of the games, making the audience lose interest in the outcome of the remaining matches. To cope with this situation, the competition was split into two phases with the addition of a "final round" elimination tournament consisting of quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals matches in 1972. The number of teams involved in the Olympic tournament has grown steadily since 1964. Since 1996, both men's and women's events count twelve participant nations. Each of the five continental volleyball confederations has at least one affiliated national federation involved in the Olympic Games.

An art, an precision sport

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The man has used archery since the beginning of the story initially to hunt and defend themselves in war and in modern times, such as sport.

In Africa were found stone arrowheads of more than 50,000 years old and archery has been used by almost all civilizations that inhabited the land.

Not many Olympic sports hold this important heritage!

An archer in Egypt , 7,500 BC

The Agincourt Battle

Outline of Leonardo da Vinci

This sport integrated the tests in the Olympic Games of 1900, 1904, 1908 and 1920.

Later one interrupted until, in Munich of 1972, she returned again to be Olympic sport, for men and women, in the Olympic Games.

And it was modernized in 1992 to adapt to the times and the interests. The competition is realised regulated by the Federation the International of Shot with Arc.

The shot with arc as it deports amateur was practiced for a long time, especially in England. The match of shot with older arc, and than still is celebrated, it is known like Ancient Scorton Arrow, and it began in Yorkshire in 1673; on 1781 the Royal Toxophilite was Women competing based (term that comes from the Greek, toxon, “arc”; philos, longbowAt the Olympic “loving”, “friend”) Society, to support and to promote this popular games in 1908.

Some thing else...

The Zen buddhism considered to this type of practices as the best form to reach the concentration and the meditation: “We must put the mind in target and feel us arc; therefore it only shoots with an arrow will give in the right point” related an Eastern monk.

FENCING

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FENCING

Fencing is the art of armed combat involving cutting, stabbing, or bludgeoning weapons directly manipulated by hand, rather than shot, thrown or positioned.

As sport emerged in the late nineteenth century,

when they began to be allowed to use swords as

combat weapons.

In fencing modern uses three weapons: fleurete, sword and scabbard. Made with hardened steel, each has a maximum length of sheet around 89 cm, the maximum weight for fleurete and sable is approximately 500 g and 770 g of some sword

Protective clothing

The clothing which is worn in modern fencing is made of tough cotton or nylon. Top level uniform pieces : jacket, breeches, underarm protector, lamé, and the bib of the mask.

In fact, the FIE rules state that the entirety of the uniform must be made of fabric that resists a force of 800 newtons (1600N in the mask bib).

The complete fencing kit includes the following items of clothing:
Form-fitting jacket covering groin and with strap which goes between the legs, a small gorget of folded fabric is also sewn in around the collar to prevent a blade from slipping upwards towards the neck. Under-arm protector which goes underneath the jacket and provides double protection on the sword arm side and upper arm. It is required to not have a seam in the armpit, which would line.

One glove for the sword arm with a gauntlet that prevents blades from going up the sleeve and causing injury, as well as protecting the hand and providing a good grip Breeches or knickers which are a pair of short trousers. The legs are supposed to hold just below the knee. Knee-length or Thigh high socks which should cover knee and thighs. Shoes with flat soles and reinforcement on the inside of the back foot and heel of front foot, to prevent wear from lunging.

Mask, including a bib which protects the neck. For competition, the bib must be sewn into the mask frame to eliminate a hole that might admit a blade.

Rules

The fencer on the right is lunging in an attempt to deliver an attack to his opponent's flank. Foil and sabre are governed by right of way rules, according to which the fencer who is the first to initiate an attack or the last to take a successful parry receives right of way. In the event of a double touch (both fencers landing a hit at the same time), only the fencer who had right of way receives a point. These rules were adopted in the 18th century as part of teaching practice. Their main aim was to discourage careless tactics, which result in simultaneous hits and, in a real duel, would leave both participants dead .In both sabre and foil, there are rules regarding what can be considered a properly executed attack or parry.

Scoring

A referee was assisted by four judges. Two judges were positioned behind each fencer, one on each side of the strip. The judges watched the fencer opposite to see if he was hit.

This is a great sport, but it is so dangerous

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DIVING.-

Diving refers to the sport of performing acrobatics whilst jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard of a certain height. Diving is an internationally recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games.

Divers do not consider themselves swimmers. While each sport shares a pool, and may compete side by side when doing so for their schools, the two sports are very different. Swimming is a full body exercise with emphasis on upper body strength and speed, diving is a full body exercise with emphasis on grace and execution; swimmers most frequently suffer overuse injuries, divers most frequently suffer impact injuries or strains.

Dive positions

During the flight of the dive, one of the four positions may be specified:

* Straight - with no bend at the knees or hips
* Pike - with knees straight but a tight bend at the hips
* Tuck - body folded up in a tight ball, hands holding the shins and toes pointed.
* Free - Some sequence of the above positions.

These positions are referred to by the letters A, B,C and D respectively.

Mechanics of diving

At the moment of take off, two critical aspects of the dive are determined, and cannot subsequently be altered during the execution. One is the trajectory of the dive, and the other is the magnitude of the angular momentum.

The speed of rotation - and therefore the total amount of rotation - may be

varied from moment to moment by changing the shape of the body, in accordance with the law of conservation of angular momentum.

The center of mass of the diver follows a parabolic path in free-fall under the influence of gravity (ignoring the effects of air resistance, which are negligible at the speeds involved).

Safety

There is a general perception of diving as being a dangerous activity, and this has contributed to the decline in availability of facilities. In fact, despite the apparent risk, the statistical incidence of injury in supervised training and competition is extremely low.

This is a picture about the risk involved the sport. However the Diving Sport have been increased in the world.

I am talk about swimming!

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Swimming

Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational. Its primary uses are bathing, cooling, travel, fishing, escape, and sport. An individual's ability to swim can be judged by speed or stamina.

Swimming is an excellent form of exercise. Because the density of the human body is very similar to that of water, the body is supported by the water and less stress is therefore placed on joints and bones. Swimming is frequently used as an exercise in rehabilitation after injuries or for those with disabilities.

Competitive Swimming

The goal of competitive swimming is to be the fastest to swim at a given distance and drop time. Competitive swimming became popular in the nineteenth century, and comprises 34 individual events, 17 male events and 17 female events. Swimming is a popular event at the Summer Olympic Games, where male and female athletes compete in 13 of the recognized events each. Olympic events are held in a 50 meter pool. Competitive swimming's international governing body is FINA (Federación Internacional de Natación), the International Swimming Federation.

Recreational Swimming

The most common purpose for swimming is recreation. Recreational swimming is considered by many a good way to relax, while enjoying a full-body workout. Several swimming styles are suitable for recreational swimming; most recreational swimmers prefer a style that keeps their head out of the water and has an underwater arm recovery. Breaststroke, side stroke, head up front crawl and dog paddle, are the most common strokes utilized in recreational swimming, but the out-of-water arm recovery of freestyle or butterfly gives rise to better exploitation of the difference in resistance between air and water.

The risks of swimming

Swimming is a healthy activity and enjoys a low risk of injury compared with many other sports. Nevertheless there are some health risks with swimming, including the following:

Drowning, inhalation of water arising

Adverse effects of immersion

Exposure to chemicals

Infection

Swimmer's own actions

Adverse water and weather conditions

Objects in the water

Aquatic life

Organizations publish safety guidelines to help swimmers avoid these risks.

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ECUADORIAN FOOTBALL

Ecuadorian football is one of the big examples of evolution in the King of the sports.

It was a very incipient practice in our competitions around the history, but the perseverance and the constant force of the new players, joined with a good technician was the key of the shift to the Ecuadorian Football evolution.

I think that we were our mind locked, because we though that we cannot win to the bigger countries with a expertly game. It’ were one of the reason because we lost confidence in the Ecuadorian Football.

But the people play a great rule in the evolution of Ecuador in this aspect because we created a good phrase called: SI SE PUEDE, and It was interiorized into mind of the players creating a goal and one of the reason why we collaborate to reach this goal everybody pull to shut the famous “WE CAN DO IT” and just we reach it.

Ecuador don’t be retracted every time because in the history we have had great players like The maximum high scored in the history of the “Copa Libertadores de America” is the Ecuadorian “Alberto Spencer”.

And one of the best players in the History of Mexico is the Ecuadorian “Alex Aguinaga”.

Ecuador fight to go the next world cup in Sudafrica, it’ another challenge for us, but we have a good players to reach it again.

Surfing!!!

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Surfing is a water sport in which the participant is carried along the face of a breaking wave, using a surfboard , although wave-riders may make use of kneeboards, body boards, kayaks, surf skis and their own bodies.

Two major subdivisions within contemporary stand-up surfing are reflected by the differences in surfboard design and riding style of longboarding and shortboarding.

Surfing was a central part of ancient Polynesian culture. The chief was the most skilled wave rider in the community with the best board made from the best tree. The ruling class had the best beaches and the best boards, and the commoners were not allowed on the same beaches, but they could gain prestige by their ability to ride the surf on their extremely heavy boards.

The art of surfing was first observed by Europeans in 1767, by the crewmembers of the Dolphin at Tahiti. Later, Lieutenant James King, wrote about the art when completing the journals of Captain James Cook upon Cook's death in 1779.

Local wind conditions affect wave quality, since the ridable surface of a wave can become choppy in blustery conditions. Ideal surf conditions include a light to moderate strength "offshore" wind, since this blows into the front of the wave making it barrel or tube.

Wave intensity classification

The geometry of tube shape can be represented as a ratio between length and width. A perfectly cylindrical vortex has a ratio of 1:1, while the classic almond-shaped tube is nearer 3:1. When width exceeds length, the tube is described as "square".

The sport of surfing has become so popular that it now represents a multi-billion dollar industry specially in clothing and fashion markets. Some people make a career out of surfing by receiving corporate sponsorships, competing in contests, or marketing and selling surf-related products, such as equipment and clothing.
This rise in popularity has also led to the creation of surf schools and camps, where lessons are taught to novice or beginner surfers. Surfers' skills are tested not only in their ability to control their board in challenging conditions and or catch and ride challenging waves, but also by their ability to execute various maneuvers such as turning and carving.

eQUipMent

Equipment used in surfing includes a leash, surf wax, traction pads which can either be permanently attached or interchangeable. In warmer climates swimsuits, surf trunks or board shorts are worn, and occasionally rash guards; in cold water surfers can opt to wear wetsuits, boots, hoods, and gloves to protect them against lower water temperatures.

Various types of sealife can cause injuries and even fatalities. Depending on the location of the surfing activity, animals such as sharks, stingrays and jellyfish may be a danger to surfers.

the most amazing sport

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In contrast to other sports, basketball has a clear origin. It is not the evolution from an ancient game or another sport and the inventor is well known: Dr. James Naismith.

Basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith a teacher at the YMCA International training school in Massachusetts. Dr. Naismith wanted to relive the boredom of his students during winter physical education classes. He had 2 fruit baskets nailed to both ends of a gym, found a soccer ball and set out some rules witch are some of the basic rules today.

Starting from there, Naismith developed a set of 13 rules that gave origin to the game of basketball. as we can see in this videos basketball is a sport where you can show your skills so enjoy it.

the best basketball players in all the history are: Magin Johnson, Michael Jordan,

Skateboarding

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This sport is considerated a extreme sport because it is so hard to practice, and all the time the body get hurt.

This sport was born at 1980 in a California surf shop, this time was called first generation, the sport was called "sidewalk surfing" and the boards had the same form of a surf table the diference was the size, the weels was created of a strong ceramic paste.

The second generation

In this fase the skateboard weels was develop with polyurethane and was called "Cadillac", and a lot of companies started to manufacture trucks.

In United States a lot of people start to create skate parks, and the people start to create a lot of dangerous tricks.

The third generation

The spor grow and all changed the paople with great abilities have a place in all of the markting spots, and aare recognized arund the world.

For example:

Rodney Mullen

Andrew Reynolds

Elissa Steamer

and early Ryan Sheckler

in Two videos I can show to you how this sport change:

Cyclo Cross

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This sport is carried out it with the bicycle in a hint, but one also has to make another type activities in those that place obstacles, for these cases the sportsman has to load the bicycle in the shoulder and to continue in the career.

The Cyclo Cross is a sport that it involves a lot of effort it is in and of itself that the sportsmen have to be in excellent shape, this includes long hours training, also a preparation in the gym and an appropriate diet with the purpose of that you/they are developed also gives efficient way in the practice.

The sportsmen give to include elite they consist with several physical coaches and psychologists that stimulate the sense competition, they have fisioterapist and they get ready long daily days.

The careers imply cycling in hint and additionally career loading the bicycle for the mountain is in and of itself that the physical effort in immense.

The first championship gives the world it was celebrated in 1950, in which the French team had the winning tradition in the International Criterium Cyclo Cross.

In these moments there is big hardware in the Cyclo Cross. It is the case the Rabobank Sven Nijs and Richard Groenendaal, both good corridors with several victories in the Súper Prestige and the Glass gives the World.

JUDO HISTORY

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JUDO´S HISTORY

The origin of Japan's martial arts is vague, and what we know of it, is more legend than truth.

In 1882, Dr. Jigoro Kano (The Father of Judo) made a comprehensive study of these ancient self defense forms and integrated the best of these forms into a sport which is known as Kodokan Judo.

ON THE FOUNDING OF JUDO

In the seaside town of Mikage, near Kobe, Japan, Jigoro Kano was born on October 28, 1860. In 1871, Kano's family moved to Tokyo.

In 1882, Kano having pulled from ancient jujitsu the best of its throws and grappling techniques, added some of his own, and removed such dangerous techniques as foot and hand strikes. Kano at the age of 22, presented his new sport-Judo. He called this sport Kodokan Judo. The term Kodokan breaks down into ko (lecture, study, method), do (way or path), and kan (hall or place). Thus it means "a place to study the way." Similarly Judo breaks down into ju (gentle) and do (way or path) or "the gentle way."

The categorization of Kodokan Judo was completed about 1887. The Kodokan had three broad aims: physical education, contest proficiency and mental training. Its structure as a martial art was such that it could be practiced as a competitive sport. Blows, kicks, certain joint locks, and other techniques too dangerous for competition, were taught only to the higher ranks.

In 1892 Judo began to spread its wings across the world when Takashima Shidachi lectured the Japan Society in London on the history and development of Judo.

In 1895 Kano classified the Judo throws into the Go Kyo No Waza. In 1900, the Kodokan Dan Grade Holders Association was established.

When Japan hosted the 1964 Olympics, Judo was given its first opportunity as an event. Judo was no longer a Japanese sport but had developed to become an olympic sport.

SURFING

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SURFING

Surfing is a surface water sport in wichi the participant is carried along the face of a breaking wave, most commonly using a surfboard.

HISTORY
The costum to surf has been refer to remote epoches, and it was originally from South Pacific Islands and in the North of Perù.

This sport was born with a religious purpose because they play this like taking a duel with an opponent to delighted to water's god who manipulates water doing a big and rough waves.

So later the polineses carried it to another coasts like: Hawai where his sport was practiced by all people, since the kings until the village people.

The first surf club was Hui Nalu - still works- , it was base by Duke Kahanamoku, knowed universally like the modern surf's father.

This sport can be taked like a summer romance by the tourists, but surf is the life to surfers.

ArTiClE aBoUt TeNnis

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TENNIS

It sport is very interesting for the most people.

It is practicing for men, women and children around the world.

Tennis as the modern sport can be dated to two separate roots.

Tennis originated in the United Kingdom in the late 19th century as "lawn tennis" and had heavy connections to the ancient game of real tennis. After its creation, tennis spread throughout the upper-class English-speaking population before spreading around the world. Tennis is an Olimpic sport and is played at all levels of society at all ages.

A beautiful guys sport….

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All the good-looking men play RUGBY

This sport born in England and descended of football. This game practice in countries like England, France, New Zeeland, Australia, South Africa and it’s the national sport of Papua New Guinea.

The beauty of this game is in the player’s faces. In these pictures we can find someone of the most beautiful rugby players.

This is a high physical contact game. The games objective is score goals in the adversary keep. A goal results from kicking the ball over the crossbar between the upright goal posts. The rules are similar to the football’s rules but with a simple difference, the rugby players don’t have security equipment.

Warning: This sport is exclusive for men………….

ARTISTIC SKATING

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This sport is practice in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other choreography on ice.

The artistic skaters compete at various levels.

History: Figure skating appeared to help the transportation necessity. Then the Figure skating is improving with the contribution of the great skaters. American skater Jakson Haines, considered the "father of modern figure skating", introduced a new style of skating in the mid-1860s. This style, which incorporated free and expressive techniques, became known as the "international style."

Figures: The number of rotations performed in the air determines whether the jump is a single, double, triple, or quad. The skaters perform triples and quads as their main jumps, while most elite female skaters perform all the triples.

This sport is famous for the figures are performed with combination or sequence and movements are so cordinated to create interisting pictures and enterly masterpieces.

Present day

Figure skating is a very popular part of the Winter Olympic Games, in which the elegance of both the competitors and their movements attract many spectators.

The History of Argentine Football

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Football was introduced to Argentina in the latter half of the 19th century, as in many other parts of the world, by the British immigrants in Buenos Aires, numbering round 40,000 people, along with rugby union and other sports.

In the 1930 Fifa World Cup, the world turned to South America for the first Fotball World Cup, held inUruguay, and Argentina had an important role, losing to the host country in the final match. A year later, football was professionalized, and was already the most popular sport. Since then, football kept gaining popularity, and Argentina became a synonym with football around the world.

Many great players abandoned Argentina to go to better paying leagues such as the Spanish, Italian and the English. Raimundo Orsi, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Omar Sivori, Mario Kempes, Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, and Juan Román Riquelme are just a few examples of the many Argentine footballers who have left the country to become famous in Europe.

Late in the 20th century women started practicing the sport in the amateur level, leading to the creation of the Argentina women's national football team, which participates in the Sudamericano Femenino since its creation in 1991.

They also qualified for and participated in the FIFA Women's World Cup 2003.

Superclásico is a title most commonly used to describe the football game between Buenos Aires rivals River Plate and Boca Juniors. It derives from the Spanish usage of "clásico" to mean derby and the prefix super is used because Boca and River are the two most popular and successful teams in Argentine Football. And, according to some statistics, comendering more than 70 percent of all Argentine football fans between them. It's the most important local derby in Argentina.

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______________V O L L E Y B A L L

In 1895, William G. Morgan, an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Mass., decided to blend elements of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball to create a game for his classes of businessmen which would demand less physical contact than basketball. He created the game of Volleyball (at that time called mintonette). Morgan borrowed the net from tennis, and raised it 6 feet 6 inches above the floor, just above the average man's head.
During a demonstration game, someone remarked to Morgan that the players seemed to be volleying the ball back and forth over the net, and perhaps "volleyball" would be a more descriptive name for the sport. On July 7, 1896 at Springfield College the first game of "volleyball" was played.

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

______________________T H E R U L E S

The rules of the volleyball are extensive, but in general, play proceeds as follows:

Each team consists of six players

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.

________________THE COURT

The game is played on a volleyball court 18 meters long and 9 meters wide, divided into two 9×9 m² halves by a one-meter wide net placed so that the top of the net is 2.43 meters above the center of the court for men's competition, and 2.24 meters for women's competition (these heights are varied for veterans and junior competitions). IN the second picture are shown the volleyball rotation

Snowboarding to the limit

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Snowboarding to the limit

Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a snow-covered slope on a snowboard attached to a participant's feet using a special boot set into a mounted binding. It is similar to skiing, but inspired by surfing and skateboarding.

The most common snowboarding's styles are: freeride, freestyle, and freecarve/race.

FrEeRiDe

It involves riding down any terrain available. Freeriding may include aerial tricks and jib tricks borrowed from freestyle, or deep carve turns more common in alpine snowboarding - utilizing whatever natural terrain the rider may encounter.

FrEsTyLe

This style incorporates the rider with man-made terrain features such as rails, boxes, handrails, jumps, half pipes, quarter pipes and a myriad of other features. The intent of freestyle is to use these terrain features to perform a number of aerial or jib tricks.

The majority of snowboard competitions concern this style of snowboarding.

This also includes halfpipe. Halfpipe or "pipe" is a trench-like half a tube made of snow. Boarders can do a countless number of tricks in the "pipe". Some may be rotations such as a 360, or an off axis spin like a "mctwist".

FrReEcArVe/RaCe

This often overlooked style of snowboarding focuses on carving and racing. Little or no jumping takes place in this discipline.

nO Boarding

No-boarding is a young sport that replaces traditional snowboard bindings with a knobbed polymer traction pad and a heavy-duty bungee rope, which transform a snowboard into a no-board. Without highbacks to lean on or straps to hold feet in place, the pad prevents slipping, and a firm grip on the rope keeps the board in place. Staying upright is like surfing: riders adapt to pitch and snow conditions by moving their feet and center of gravity.

Competition

* Slope style

* Big air

* Half-pipe

* Boarder-cross

* Rail jam

* Racing

Snowboarding Injuries - Snowboarder's Ankle

Snowboarder's Ankle ranks second in the top 5 Injuries in Snowboarding and Skiing. Snowboarder's Ankle refers to a fracture of the lateral process of the Talus bone, which is located on the outer side of the ankle, above the heel bone. This injury is fifteen times more common in snowboarders than in the general population, hence, this injury is often termed as Snowboarder's Ankle.

With this injury, a history of an ankle sprain from Snowboarding is common. Typically, there is pain at the back on the bony prominence on the outerside of the ankle, which can be extremely tender to touch. It is usually accompanied by swelling and bruising.

Snowboarding Injuries - Wrist Fractures

Falls are more common in Snowboarding. The natural response to a fall is to stretch out a hand to break the fall, and falls tend to occur more often in beginners. For this reason, Scaphoid fractures and Colles fractures of the wrist are a relatively common feature, with around 100,000 wrist fractures worldwide among snowboarders each year.

ScApHoId FrAcTuRe

The scaphoid is one of the eight small carpal bones that make up the wrist complex. The fracture of the scaphoid usually occurs following a fall onto an outstretched hand.

In the case of an acute fracture of the scaphoid, the wrist is immobilized in a plaster of paris for 6 weeks. Once the cast has been removed, the patient begins physiotherapy.

CoLlEs FrAcTuRe

The Colles fracture describes a fracture of the radius bone of the forearm, just above the wrist. The most common method of sustaining a Colles fracture is to fall on an outstretched hand.

Symptoms include a great deal of pain, a "dinner fork" deformity, swelling and an inability to use the wrist and hand.

The most common treatment is simply to put the forearm and wrist into a plaster of paris for a period of 6 weeks.

On Piste - Piste Etiquette, Guidelines, & Rules

1. Ski or snowboard under control and make sure you have enough control to be able to stop or avoid objects at will when needed. You can push your boundaries, but know your limit.

2. If you are overtaking another skier or snowboarder, it is your responsibility to avoid hitting the slower skier or rider. Take any abrupt movement of slower going people into account and make sure you have a clear picture of your surroundings at all times.

3. Do not stop, sit down or rest in the middle of the piste. If you plan to do any of them, make sure you are out of the general traffic and that other people can clearly see you.

4. When you are starting your run, give way to other skiers and snowboarders. Check your back and blind spot before entering your descent.

5. Always use supporting gear that will prevent your gear from sliding down the slope and potentially hitting other people.

6. Stick to the Rules and Piste Etiquette set out by the caretakers of the Snow Resort. Follow all Snow Resort Signs and do not enter closed trails.

7. Make sure to have a clear picture of the weather, Snowboarding Snow Conditions and the routes in the snow resort. Let those aspects dictate your Snowboarding.

8. Do not make Snowboard Jumps if you cannot see the landing site. Never ride hard into an unknown area.

9. If you are in any way involved in an accident, stay on the accident scene and offer any assistance. Report the accident to the patrol of the resort.

10. Never go Snowboarding Off Piste alone and stay in close contact with the people you are going off slope with.

11. If you want to take Snowboarding Pictures, be sure that you are not getting in the way of other riders.

SPORT

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MoUnTaIn cLiMbInG

cLiMbInG

Iis the activity of using one's hands and feet to ascend a steep object. It is done both for recreation and professionally, as part of activities such as maintenance of a structure, or military operations.

TyPeS oF cLiMbInG

Are a lot of types of climbing, for example:

Mountain climbing
Rock climbing
Bouldering
Buildering
Tree climbing
Rope climbing
Pole climbing

MoUnTaIn cLiMbInG oR mOuNtAiNeErInG

It is the sport, hobby or profession of walking, hiking, trekking and climbing up mountains. It is also sometimes known as alpinism.

Different aspects of mountains may now be said to consist of three aspects: rock-craft, snow-craft and skiing, depending on whether the route chosen is over rock, snow or ice.

All require great athletic and technical ability, and experience is also very important.

Ascending mountains for sport or recreation.

It often involves rock and/or ice climbing

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TAEKWONDO

This is the national sport of South Korea.This is a martial art and combat sport, and is an official Olympic sporting event.

The word Taekwondo means:

"Tae" (Hanja (태; 跆) means feet or kicking

"Kwon" (권; 拳) means hands or striking

"Do" (도; 道) means art, path, way, or method.

For this, taekwondo means "the art to strike with the feet and the hands."All this without completely arms.

Taekwondo training generally includes a system of blocks, punches, and open-handed strikes and may also include various take-downs or sweeps, throws, and joint locks.

Tae Kwon Do is famed for its use of kicking techniques,The rationale is that the leg is the longest and strongest weapon a martial artist has, and kicks thus have the greatest potential to execute powerful strikes without successful retaliation.

Physically, Tae Kwon Do develops strength, speed, balance, flexibility, and stamina.

A Tae Kwon Do student typically wears a uniform (dobok 도복), often white but sometimes black or other colors, with a belt (tti 띠) tied around the waist.

The belt indicates the student's rank. The school or place where instruction is given is called the dojang 도장.

Taekwondo ranks are separated into "junior" and "senior" or "student" and "instructor" sections.

The junior section typically consists of ten ranks indicated by the Korean word geup. The junior ranks are usually identified by belts of various colors, depending on the school, so these ranks are sometimes called "color belts".

The senior section is made up of nine full ranks of black belt along with an honorary tenth degree These ranks are called dan 단.

To advance from one rank to the next, students typically complete promotion tests in which they demonstrate their proficiency in the various aspects of the art before a panel of judges.

FEATURES

Kicks (chagui)
Taekwondo is a martial art and use techniques of kick, for attack to trunk or head.

Each technique of kick has variations for example: with turn (mondollyo or tidola), in jump (tuio), towards a side, backwards, etc.

Techniques of hand (chirigui, chigui and chumok)

Taekwondo includes a great amount of techniques of attack with the fist or hand opened.

The diverse techniques differ in the form of struck (knuckles, back of the hand…) and in the direction of attack (towards outside, frontal…).

Blockades and defenses (maki)

Taekwondo have a variety of defense techniques, in function of the direction and the height of the attack.

Self-defense

Positions (sogui)
The positions have special importance in the execution, and it's very important to maintain the body in a correct position so that our techniques are most effective possible.

TENETS

Courtesy (Ye Ui)

Integrity (Yom Chi)

Perserverance (In Nae)

Self-control (Guk-Gi)

Indomitable Spirit (Baekjul Boolgool)

Argentina's Country

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This country is localized in South American, it constituted as a federation of 23 provinces. This place has about 40 millions de peoples, and it bordered by Bolivia (north), Brazil in the east, and Chile in the west.

HISTORY:

The first human presences in Argentina are located in the Patagonia (Piedra Museo, Santa Cruz). European explorers arrived in 1516. The Spain established a permanent colony on the site of Buenos Aires in 1580. From 1880 to 1916, Argentina enjoyed increasing prosperity.

CULTURE:

Argentine culture has been primarily informed and influenced by its European roots. Buenos Aires, considered by many its cultural capital, is often said to be the most European city in South America, as a result both of the prevalence of people of European descent and of conscious imitation of European styles in architecture. The other big influence is the gauchos and their traditional country lifestyle of self-reliance. Finally, indigenous American traditions (like mate tea drinking) have been absorbed into the greater cultural realm.

FOOD AND DRINK:

Argentine food is influenced by cuisine from Spain, Italy, Germany, France and other European countries, and many foods from those countries such as pasta, sausages, and desserts are common in the nation's diet. Argentina has a wide variety of staple foods, which include empanadas, a stuffed pastry; locro, a mixture of corn, beans, meat, bacon, onion, and gourd; and chorizo, a spicy sausage. Other popular items include Dulce de Leche and mate, Argentina's national beverage.

The Argentine barbecue, asado, is one of the most famous in the world and includes various types of meats, among them chorizo, sweetbread, chitterlings, and morcilla (blood sausage). Thin sandwiches, sandwiches de miga, are also popular. Argentines have the highest consumption of red meat in the world.

Since 1992 Argentina has invested over 650 million dollars to modernize the winery industry. The country is an important wine producer, rated fifth in the world, with the yearly per capita consumption of wine amongst the highest worldwide. (Malbec has become a representative variety from Argentina). Malbec grape, a discardable varietal in France (country of origin), has found in Province of Mendoza an ideal environment to successfully develop and turn itself into world's best Malbec. The city of Mendoza is one of the eight wine capitals of the world, and Mendoza accounts for 70% of the country total production (all varietals considered). "Wine tourism" is significant in the Province of Mendoza, with the impressive landscape of Cordillera de Los Andes and the highest peak in America, Mount Aconcagua, 6952 meters high, providing a very desirable destination for international tourism.

DUBAI

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DUBAI

The Dubai way of life did not always base on oil and its profits. Dubai was originally a fishing settlement. Inhabitants lived by fishing, pearling, herding sheep and goats, and by the turn of the century was an important trading port. Trade expanded even as Dubai was under the British protectorate, and Dubai began to grow in merchant appeal. By the early 1900s, almost a quarter of the population was foreign. The population in the 1930s was 20,000, and of that, 2,000 were Persians, 1,000 Baluchis, many Indians and substantial communities from Bahrain, Kuwait and the Hasa province in eastern South Arabia. In 1954, the British established a political agency there as well. In 1971, the British withdrew and Dubai joined with Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Aiman, Umm Al Quwain, Fajairah and later Ras Al Khaimah to create the federation of the United Arab Emirates. Oil was discovered in 1966 and by 1969 Dubai exported its first shipment of oil. The success of this venture fuelled the rapid development.

Dubai worked to build up its infrastructure of transport facilities, schools, hospitals, tourism developments and other amenities of an advanced society.

Now, Dubai is a country with a good economy and all its inhabitants live well. Dubai is also well known for its great touristic places. Here you can find everything: good food, drink, jewels, 6 stars hotels, skyscraper, etc. As follows, see some pictures of this wonderful country.

Portugal

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Portugal is a country in southwestern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, Portugal is a member of European Union, your capital is Lisboa, The climate can be classified as Mediterranean type, Portugal's economy is based on industries such as textiles, Portugal has many turistic places such us Fatima, Madeira, Porto, and Lisboa.

Football is the most known, loved and practiced sport. The legendary Eusébio is still a major symbol of Portuguese football history and Luís Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo are among the numerous examples of other world class footballers born in Portugal and note worldwide.

The most successful Portuguese rink hockey clubs in the history of European championships are F.C. Porto, S.L. Benfica, Sporting CP, and Óquei de Barcelos.

Portugal has developed a specific culture while being influenced by various civilizations that have crossed the Mediterranean and the European continent, or were introduced when it played an active role during the Age of Discovery.

Greece known as the Hellenic Republic

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Greece

Greece is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula. It has borders with Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east and south of mainland Greece, while the Ionian Sea lies to the west. Both parts of the Eastern Mediterranean basin feature a vast number of islands. Greece lies at the juncture of Europe, Asia and Africa. It is heir to the heritages of ancient Greece, the Roman and Byzantine Empires, and nearly four centuries of Ottoman rule.Grecia is regarded as the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, Western literature and historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematic principles, and Western drama including both tragedy and comedy. Greece is a developed country, a member of the European Union since 1981,a member of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union since 2001.

A bit of her climate

The climate of Greece can be categorised into three types :the Mediterranean, the Alpine and the Temperate that influence well-defined regions of its territory.The Pindus mountain range strongly affects the climate of the country. The Mediterranean type of climate features mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers

Cocine
The cuisine is often cited as an example of the healthy Mediterranean diet. The cuisine of Greece has influences from Italian, Balkan and Middle Eastern cuisine. Greek cuisine incorporates fresh ingredients into a variety of local dishes such as moussaka, stifado and spanakopita. Throughout Greece people often enjoy eating from small dishes such as meze with various dips such as tzatziki, grilled octopus and small fish, feta cheese, dolmades (rice, currants and pine kernels wrapped in vine leaves), various pulses, olives and cheese. Olive oil is added to almost every dish. Sweet desserts such as galaktoboureko, and drinks such as ouzo, metaxa and a variety of wines including retsina.

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WHY DON'T HATE TO U.S.?

It is a big country. Their populations is around 300 million of persons in this country. The United States is a federal union of fifty states.

In this country is very important the free expression, for example the comics

USA is a world economic power, because in this country live the most rich people in the world.

Moreover, in this country there are a lot of interesting places to visit, for example: Las Vegas, San Francisco, New York, Miami, and other cities, Hawai and Antartida, They don't in the same country but appertain to US.

The United States has been a leader in scientific research and technological innovation

Characteristic dishes such as apple pie, fried chicken, pizza, hamburgers and hot dogs, french fries. Americans generally prefer coffee to tea, and for breakfast is usually the orange juice and milk.

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Three important places in france?

Eiffel Tower:

This is a structure designed by the French engineer Gustave Eiffel. It was built in two years, two months and five days. The artist of those days looked at the tower as an iron monster. When it was built It was the taller monument of the world. The idea of Gustave Eiffel to build this tower was sent to Barcelona. He wanted to put the tower in that city.

Museum of Louvre

The museum of Louvre is one of the most important museums in the world. It is located in Paris in the Louvre Palace. This museum contains around 300.000 pieces. Just 35.000 of them are exposed. It has the most valuable pieces of art in the world. The most valuable piece is the Gioconda. The Gioconda is Leonardo da Vinci’s most known paint.

Triumph Arch

It is the most famous Triumph Arch. It is located in Charles de Gaulle square. This Arch is an idea of Napoleon Bonaparte after his victory in the Austelitz Battle. It was designed by Chalgrim. Chalgrim was inspired in the roman architecture. The Arch has a statue in each one of its four piers. The Triumph Arch has the Unknown Soldier Tomb from World War I

Portugal more that Colonial Country

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Portugal is a country that belongs to the European Union, it has a population he gives 11.317.192 inhabitants, Lima to the east and the north with Spain, and to the south and west with the ocean Atlantic. He understands the autonomous archipelagos he also gives the Goshawks and Madeira give, located in the north hemisphere he gives the ocean Atlantic, besides the uninhabited archipelago he gives the Wild Islands, to the south Madeira gives.

During the XV and XVI centuries, Portugal was one he gives the biggest economic, social and cultural powers he gives the world, as well as its empire that extended from the current Brazil to the Oriental India.

In the political aspect, the President gives the Republic it is chosen for one period he gives five years for universal direct vote; it is also commander in chief he gives the armed forces.

The presidential powers include to designate to the Prime Minister and the Council he/she gives the Minister whose president should be proposed he gives agreement with the electoral results for the assembly.

The government directs a Prime Minister that names to the Council he gives Minister. This first minister should present before the Assembly his program government he gives. If the assembly approves the program for a majority he gives deputies the government it confirms in position.

The Assembly gives the Republic he is an unicameral parliament integrated for up to 230 deputies, chosen by universal suffrage according to a sistem he gives proportional representation, the deputies have a command he/she gives four years, unless the president dissolves the assembly and summon new elections.

At the present time the Republic gives Portugal it has 4 political parties that are:

· Party Socialist
· Democratic Social Party
· Popular Party
· Block gives Left

The Council gives the State, it is a presidential advisory organism, and it is compound for six important civil officials, any president previous elect from 1976, five elected members for the assembly, and five selected by the president.

The Supreme Tribunal gives Justice it is the tribunal he/she gives appeal. There are specialized tribunals, as the military courts, administrative, and fiscal. A Constitutional Tribunal gives 9 members it sanctions the constitutionality he/she gives the legislation.

Continental Portugal is divided in 18 districts:

· Aveiro
· Beja
· Braga
· Braganza
· Castelo Branco
· Coimbra
· Évora
· Faro
· Guarda
· Leiria
· Lisboa
· Portalegre
· Oporto
· Santarém
· Setúbal
· Viana do Castelo
· Vila Real
· Viseu

Besides these, there are two autonomous regions: the Goshawks (Açores) and Madeira. Each district is subdivided in municipalities and these, in turn, in parishes The coast Portugal gives and the Goshawks are threatened annually by severe earthquakes, although it is also common that fires and severe climate happen.

Portugal is a coastal nation in the Southwest Europe he gives and it is part Iberoamérica he gives. Their continental area is located in the Iberian Peninsula. Continental Portugal is separated in two by its main river, the Cut

There are several lakes in Portugal; in it Saws Estrela he gives the Lake Comprida and the Lake Escura they were formed he gives old glaciers. Some lagoons have as origin the ocean or some river; for example, the lagoons give Albufeira and Óbidos. Other they originated among dunes, as the lagoons Braças gives and it Veils

The Portuguese climate is classified as Atlantic-Mediterranean, a marine climate, influenced by the Ocean Atlantic, being cold and rainy in the north, and hot and I dry off in the south. There is snowy in the mountainous areas he gives the north, being that, in the Sierra the Star gives, they an be intense. The snow is strange in the coastal areas.

ortugal has become a diversified economy and more and more based in services since it entered in the European Union in 1986. In the last decade, the governments have privatized many state signatures and they have liberalized the dominant areas he/she gives the economy, including the financial sectors and give the telecommunications. The country was qualified for the European Monetary Union (EMU) in 1998 and it began to circulate its new currency, the euro, in 1 gives January he gives 2002, together with 11 other economies members the UE gives.

The economic development has been above the average the UE he gives during good part he gives the last decade.

The hope gives life it is he gives 77,8 years. The average gives childrens for woman it is he/she only gives 1,48. 93,3% the population gives this alphabetized. The illegal immigration you are tornando a problem for the country.

The current ethnic composition is the following one:

· European: 97,7% (Portuguese 96,5% and other Europeans 1,2%)
· African: 1,2%
· American: 0,5% (majority gives Brazilian)

Second the Censuses Population gives she gives 2001, the religious composition gives Portugal it is the following one:

· Catholic: 84,53% (92,93% gives those that have responded)
· Orthodox: 0,20% (0,22%)
· Protestants: 0,56% (0,61%)
· Other Christian: 1,41% (1,55%)
· Jewry: 0,02% (0,02%)
· Muslims: 0,14% (0,15%)
· Other Christian no: 0,16% (0,18%)
· Without religion: 3,84% (4,33%)
· No has responded: 9,04%

The official language gives Portugal he is the Portuguese, one gives the first learned languages the medieval Europe he gives.

The gastronomy is rich and varied. In the coast he wastes away much fresh fish, but the Portuguese are also proud he gives the variety he gives forms he/she gives to prepare the cod in salting. Each domestic area has its typical plates.

Portugal is strongly a country vinícola, being celebrated the wines the Duero gives, the Alentejo give and the Dão give, the green wines give the Miño, and the generous wines he gives Port wine and Madeira give. At grade he/she gives confectionery the calls you pasture he gives belém the eggs masses (Aveiro gives) they are the most famous. Give among the popular plates to highlight the Green Broth are (Lisbon), the francesinhas and the tripe (he gives the region Oporto),las pataniscas he/she gives (he gives the region Lisbon he gives), and the gaspacho (the Algarve gives), the Ham and the Folar give Chaves (Portugal).

Portugal offers to the tourist attractive several visitors to enjoy among them we have:

· The Algarve, to the south Portugal gives, it is the tourist punto he par excellence gives Portuguese and foreigners. The climate and the temperature gives the water they are the main factors that contribute to the great tourist growth in this region. The inauguration gives the airport he gives Lighthouse in the decade he gives the 60 it contributed vastly to the affluence he gives tourists he gives the most different nationalities, especially British, German and Scandinavian.

· Lisbon and Port wine also attract many tourists, being considered specially attractive cities by their night life, their narrow relationship with their respective rivers (I Slice and Duero) and for their monuments. Port wine is a city that takes an excellent place in the domestic cultural panorama and Europe give. It was Capital European he gives the Culture in 2001. The Foundation gives Serralves and the House gives the Music they are he gives obligatory visit. The club gives soccer he gives the city it is also one he gives the good known ones Europe he gives.

· Madeira is also a tourist center, so much for its pleasant climate during the whole year like for its exceptional gastronomy.

As for the sport environment one gives their more representative icons it is the Christian Ronaldo who militates in the English soccer in the club Manchester United, Christian Ronaldo according to the FIFA it was as player number two at grade world.

What's Italy known for??

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Is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy has several volcanoes like Etna which is the largest active volcano in Europe. The climate in Italy is very variable it depends of the location.

The latest population estimate is 59,206,382, an increase of 49,084 persons from a month earlier. Italy has the fourth largest population in the European Union (after Germany, France).

Italy is a destination for immigrants from all over the world.

Italy is very known because a famous painted called Gioconda, it was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1503 up 1506, it has a lot of mysteries like its face, specially its smile, also its dark eyes and its relax hands.

The Gioconda was carried to France by Leonardo in 1516, and then the France’s king bought the paint, then the paint was showed in Versailles palace, then the paint was in Napoleon’s room.

This famous paint had been showed in too many countries around the world, but always stay in Louvre museum.

I am talking about Honduras

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Honduras is located in the heart of Central America and is surrounded by high tropical mountains, which provide the country with a variety of different climates. Its north is the Caribbean Sea, offering a beautiful beach, the Bay Islands are surrounded by the world’s second largest coral reef.

Honduras has exotic animals, a lot of parks and protected areas, tropical nature, biological diversity, vast rain forest, many birds and mountains to climb.

Honduras is famous for its archaeology, it has one of the Maya Worlds most beautiful as well as perhaps the best preserved and most studied archaeological sites.

There are Copan Ruinas.

Copán Ruinas is located in northwest Honduras, near the border with Guatemala, 184 kilometers from San Pedro Sula.

UNESCO declared the ruins a World Heritage Site in 1980.

The city boasts more sculptures than any other site in the Maya World. The site has a Maya Sculpture Museum featuring stelae, altars and other structures from the site.

Honduras has 600 kilometers of Caribbean white sand beaches as well as pristine reefs and the unsurpassed biodiversity and beauty of the flora and fauna.

In Honduras the water is crystalline, the biodiversity and beauty of the flora and fauna unsurpassed. There are star, pillar coral, finger, rope, and vase sponges, sea fans, and fish species too numerous.

Honduras has many religious, civilian and military buildings of more than 300 years of Hispanic colonial history that can still be found today.

More than 100 churches with relief and interiors with imagery, precious metals and paintings the great importance.

Honduras' strong cultural heritage is based on its ethnic diversity about 90 percent of the Honduran population is mestizo, a mixture of indigenous, African, and Spanish races.

A place when you'll a king!!! Dubai

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United Arab Emirated

Geography

The United Arab Emirates is a rich country formed in 1971 by seven emirates such as Abu Dhabi (the capital city), Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, and Umm al-Qaiwain

It’s located in the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and extends along part of the Gulf of Oman and the southern coast of the Persian Gulf.

Its neighbors are Saudi Arabia to the west and south, Qatar to the north, and Oman to the east. Most of the land is barren and sandy, the country occupies an area of 83,600 sq km.

Economy

Most of the land is barren and sandy however is a rich country in natural resources, it’s economy is supplied by petroleum and petrochemicals explotation (20% pib), they also develop turistic industry in considerable part; manufacturing, financial services and agriculture.

The monetary unit is U.A.E. dirham, and the official language is Arabic, also they talked Persian, English, Hindi and Urdu.

Besides, the country is one of the world's fastest growing tourist destinations, has all the right ingredients for an unforgettable holiday, sun, sand, sea, sports, unbeatable shopping, top-class hotels and restaurants, an intriguing traditional culture, and a safe and welcoming environment.

TOURISTC PLACES

The most important touristic center in EUA is Dubai. There is a lot

of luxurious hotels, the main is Burj Al- Arab. It's a beautiful and

Worl'd tallest hotel.

It`s located along the coast of the arabian sea.

Why I'd Like to travel to New Zealand

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I'd like to travil to New Zealand because it has awesome landscapes, lush forests, amazing wildlife and pleasant climate make it a haven for many outdoor activities, and a great place to unwind. New Zealand society is diverse, sophisticated, and multicultural, and the honesty, friendliness, and openness of Kiwis will impress you. And the great advantage of New Zealand is that all of its diverse physical, cultural, and artistic landscapes are so close to each other!

New Zealan is a New Zealand is the youngest country on earth - the last major landmass to be discovered. It has a rich and fascinating history, reflecting both our Maori and European heritage. Amazing Maori historic sites and taonga (treasures), some dating back almost a thousand years, are a contrast to many beautiful colonial buildings. A walk around any New Zealand city today shows what a culturally diverse and fascinating country we have become.

New Zealand is a country in the south-western pacific Ocean comprising two large islands (the North Island and the South Island) and numerous smallers islands, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands. The indigenous Maori named New Zealand Aotearoa, which is usually translated into English as The Land of the Long White Cloud. The Realm of New Zealand also includes the Cook Islands and Niue, which are self-governing but in free association; Tokelau; and the Ross Dependecy (New Zealand's territorial claim in Antarctica)

You could come to New Zealand for a hundred holidays and have a totally different experience each time. From Fiordland to Spirit's Bay, the country presents a huge variety of landscapes.

With vast open spaces filled with stunning rugged landscapes, gorgeous beaches, often spectacular geothermal and volcanic activity, a temperate climate and fascinating animal and plant life, and it is no surprise that New Zealand’s pure natural environment is so attractive to visitors from other countries. And the great advantage of New Zealand is the are many different landscapes, enviroments, and ecosystems so close to each other.

When you’re travelling New Zealand, it’s the natural attractions that put the magic in your day. Snowy mountains, volcanoes, delectable beaches, remote hiking trails, fiords, wilderness lakes and much, much more.

Why did Homer Simpson travel to India?

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Why did Homer Simpson travel to India?

If you remember, Homer accepted to work in the new Burn’s nuclear plants localized in New Delhi. He traveled to his new job and he really don’t kwon what to do when he was there. At the begins of the history, Homer couldn’t find Apu’s Cousin, this guy help Homer to go work and he saw a new kind of workers, and they are so many just like blue birds in a spring day.

The reason for Homer’s travel was an economics principium. Business people like Monty Burns wanted one thing in a factory, they hope than costs reduce at minimum. India has the world's second largest labor force, with 509.3 million people, 60% of whom are employed in agriculture and related industries; 28% in services and related industries; and 12% in industry. They are so many workers and his salary is low. They don’t fight for better jobs conditions.

Unstill that the Indian economy is among the fastest growing in the world, their GDP per capita (PPP) is US$ 3600, that is grow up economy.

We need know the business skills of Monty Burns before we hate him.

Writer.
Alberto Illescas

¡Five years more for the Revolution! ¡¡¡cUbA!!!

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CUBA

Cuba is a caribean country located in the Antillas archipielago in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.

This is a country with a big History, Cuba was in spanish possession for almost 400 years, ts economy was based on plantation agriculture, mining and the export of sugar, coffee and Tobacco to Europe and later to North America.

CUBA REVOLUTION

Abgdo. Fidel Castro was in front of the battle of the revolution in the 50´s when Cuba was in the Batista goverment.
After they won he became Prime Minister of Cuba in February 1959. In its first year in power, the new revolutionary government carried out measures such as the expropiation of privaty propiety.The nationalization of public utilities, and began a campaign to institute tighter controls on the private sector.

Today he finish his goverment period, and his brother Raul is the second Primer Minister of the revolution in the most important representative communist country.

Why talking about El Vaticano?

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The country of TheVatican is very important for the catholic people. This is located in the old continent Europe. Many people visit this place in the year. It is a country of tourist attraction because in this place is the Pope.
Vatican is the Vatican city with o,44km2 of surface and 1000 inhabitant, is the smallest country and more inhabited place of the world.
The Vatican city is itself of great cultural significance. The most important and outstanding building is "La Basílica de San Pedro" althouhg the "basílicas of San Juan de Letrén, San Pablo Extramuros and Santa María la Mayor, and out side of the city, the "Palacio de Castelgandolfo" is into of this.
Vatican City has a reasonably well developed transport network considering its size. It has a small transportation system with no airports or highways. As the Vatican City has no airports, it is served by the airports that serve the city of Rome, within which the Vatican is an enclave, namely: Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport and to a lesser extent, Ciampino Airport, which both serve as the departure gateway for the Pope's international visits.
It is an interesitng place for visit how its pictures show it.

Chile

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Chile, officially the Republic of Chile (Spanish: República de Chile (help·info)), is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific forms the country's entire western border, with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage at the country's southernmost tip. Chile claims 1,250,000 km² (482,628 sq mi) of territory in Antarctica.

brazil is beautiful country

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República Federativa do Brasil, is a country in South America.It is thefifth-largest country by geographical area, the fifth most populous country, and the fourth most populousdemocracy in the world. The official language is Portuguese. Catholicism is the predominant religion.
The Brazilian population is concentrated along the coastline and in a few large urban centers in the interior. While Brazil is one of the most populous nations in the world, population density drops dramatically as one moves inland.
One of the ten largest economies in the world, the country has a diversified middle-income economy with wide variations in development levels and mature manufacturing, mining and agriculture sectors. Technology and services also play an important role and are growing rapidly.
Initially Portugal had little interest in Brazil.
The Brazilian Federation is based on the indissoluble association of three autonomous political entities: the States, the Municipalities and the Federal District. Brazil is a political and economic leader in Latin America. However, social and economic problems prevent it from becoming an effective global power.

I want travel to China...

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I want to meet China because this have a greatest history, and now become a big economic potence.

this country have a very beautiful places what I want to know for exaple the great wall China, and her architecture is impresive, the history of this country it start before our history and have a lot of diferents habits, and have a lot of schols of thought represented for: Confucio, Mencio, Laozi o Zhuangzi.

In this country have a beautiful celebration in the chinese new year, and have an animal for any year, this year is the year of the rat and the people take a apart in a big parades with costumes with the theme of the year.

I want to travel to China for know the culture, the beatiful places, I whish know this country

Perú

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PERÚ

Perú is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.

Peru is a representative democratic republic divided into 25 regions and the province of Lima

The Peruvian population, estimated at 28 million, is multiethnic, including Amerindians, Europeans, Africans and Asians. The main spoken language is Spanish.

The Andes mountains run parallel to the Pacific Ocean, dividing the country into three geographic regions. The coast to the west, is a narrow plain, largely arid except for valleys created by seasonal rivers. The sierra highlands is the region of the Andes. The third region is the jungle, a wide expanse of flat terrain covered by the Amazon rainforest that extends east.

Switzerland a wonderfull country...!

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SWITZERLAND

The flower clock in the English Garden

Switzerland is located on the European continent. Switzerland is a beautiful country because it has very places wonderfull how the flower clock in Geneva's city.

Switzerland has three official languages: German (63% according to 2000 Census) in the north, east and centre of the country; French (20.4%) to the west; Italian (6.5%) in the south. The currency of this country is the Franco.

Switzerland has a stable modern mixed market economy. Banking, tourism, pharmaceuticals and chemicals are important industries in Switzerland.

Resident foreigners and temporary foreign workers make up about 21% if the population.

The culture of Switzerland is influenced by its neigbours and its internacional sentiment, but oven the years a distinctive culture with some regional differences and an independent streak has developed.

Switzerland has no official state religion, though most of the cantons, except Geneva and Neuchatel, recognise official churches, in all cases including the catholic church and the swiss reformed church. Christianity is the predominant religion of switzerland, divided between the catholic church and various protestant denominations. Immigration has brought Islam.

Developed by: Nadia Saca Valencia.

brazil

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COLOMBIA

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There is small country ubicated in the American continent.

Its capital city is Bogota

Its limits are :
North: Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Panama
South: Ecuador and Peru

East: Venezuela and Brazil

West: Pacific Ocean

The Colombian government is dividen into three branches of power: executive, legislative and judicial whit special control institution and electoral institutions.

This is the "Casa de Nariño", the presidential palace, it is in Bogota, the capital city of Colombia

Colombia has some importants cities like: Bogota, Cali, Medellin, Cartagena (this is an important touristic point)

A tipical music of Colombia are the Vallenatos, for this, the musicians have a "acordion"

Colombia are a beatuful county, but it is a very violent country,

in the limit with Ecuador are ubicated "Las FARC" it is a

revolutionary group.

Netherlandas

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The Netherlands is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba in the Caribbean. The Netherlands is a constitutional monarchy, located in Western Europe. It is bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east.
The Netherlands is often called Holland. This is formally incorrect as North and South Holland in the western Netherlands are only two of the country's twelve provinces. For more on this and other naming issues see terminology of the Netherlands.
The Netherlands is a geographically low-lying and densely populated country. It is popularly known for its traditional windmills, tulips, cheese, clogs (wooden shoes), delftware and gouda pottery, for its bicycles, its dikes and surge barriers, and, on the other hand, traditional values and civil virtues such as its classic social tolerance. But primarily, the Netherlands is a modern, advanced and open society. An old parliamentary democracy, the country is more recently known for its rather liberal policies toward recreational drugs, prostitution, LGBT rights, abortion, and euthanasia. The Netherlands is also one of the most densely cabled countries in the world; its internet connection rate is 73.3%, the 5th highest in the world.[1]
The Netherlands has an international outlook; among other affiliations the country is a founding member of the European Union (EU), NATO, the OECD, and has signed the Kyoto protocol. Along with Belgium and Luxembourg, the Netherlands is one of three member nations of the Benelux economic union. The country is host to five international(ised) courts: the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Court and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. All of these courts (except the Special Tribunal for Lebanon), as well as the EU's criminal intelligence agency (Europol), are situated in The Hague, which has led to the city being referred to as "the world's legal capital.

IsraelThe David's Start

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"May the Lord send his blessing on you and keep you;

May the Lord's approval be resting on you and may he give you peace."

Numbers 6:24-26

ISRAEL

Hebrew: יִשְרָאֵל, Yisra'el. Country in Southewest Asia located on the southeastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. With a population of about 7.2 million, Israel is the world's only Jewish state, Jerusalem is the nation's capital.

The name originated from a verse in the Bible where Jacob is renamed Israel after successfully wrestling with an angel of God. Israel means "God rules" or "God judges"; or "the prince of God" or "El fights/struggles".

Jacob's wives gave birth to twelve sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin.

In Egypt the tribe of Joseph was divided into two tribes, Ephraim and Manasseh, by the virtue of Jacob's blessing.

For this reason, the twelve tribes are:

1. Reuben

The mandrakes in Reuben's coat -of-arms are based on the story where young Reuben brought his mother Leah mandrakes from the field.

2. Simeon

Was one of the strongest tribes during the wandering in the desert. The symbol is that of a gate representing the city of Shecem.

3. Levi

Levi refers to Leah's hope for Jacob to join with her, implying a derivation from yillaweh, meaning he will join. Between his notable descendants are Moses, Aaron, Miriam, Samuel, John the Baptist, etc.

4. Judah

The tribe of Judah stood apart from the others as the leading tribe of the Kingdom of Judah, and from the tribe came the kingdom's rulers.

5. Dan

Dan's symbol is a scale representing justice. Dan was known as the tribe of great judges. The most famous was Samson.

6. Naphtali

"Naphtali" The symbol of this tribe is a gazelle-a very quick animal. The people of Naftali were famous for being great runners.

7. Gad

The tribal name derives from a deity worshipped by the tribe, Gad being thought by scholars to be likely to have taken its name from Gad, the semitic god of fortune.

8. Asher

Identification with the tribe of Asher is plausible according to views that place the Exodus at the end of the Hyksos period but conflicts with views.

9. Issachar

the territory of Issachar was conquered by the Assyrians, and the tribe exiled; the manner of their exile lead to their further history being lost.

10. Zebulun

The tribe of Zebulun numbered 57,400 men fit for war, this army, under the command of Eliab the son of Helon, encamped with Judah and Issachar east of the Tabernacle and with them made up the vanguard of the line of march. Among the spies sent by Moses to view the land of Canaan, Gaddiel the son of Sodi represented Zebulun.

11. Joseph

With his two son:

Menasheh and Ephraim

The territories of Menasheh and Epahraim were conquered by the Assyrians, and the tribe exiled; the manner of their exile lead to their further history being lost. However, several modern day groups claim descent, with varying levels of academic and rabbinical support. The Samaritans claims that some of their adherents are descended from those tribes.

12. Benjamin

In the Blessing of Jacob, Benjamin is referred to as a ravenous wolf; traditional interpretations often considered this to refer to the might of a specific member of the tribe, either the champion Ehud, king Saul, or Mordecai of the Esther narrativa, or in Christian circles, the apostle Paul.

¡Five years more for the Revolution! ¡¡¡cUbA!!!

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Do you want to enjoy a lot?... Australia is a good place to find entertainment!

Hi friends! Someday did you ask yourself what are the best places around the world to enjoy to the maximum? Well, one of those is Australia because the sun, sand and surf is it lifestyle.

Probably, for those people who love the risk, to know the beaches of Australia would be a challenge. Here, the characterized sport is the surf; and the mostly of people have traveled around it waves in different competitions and events of surf.

In this country, people of any age practice everyday, and now it’s considered as the most important sport here; for that reason, in each school it’s practiced as an obligatory subject.

If you like this sport, but you cannot, there’s no problem. Here you can find several schools of surf and start to enjoy. Just you need your surfboard and you're ready to train....!!!

Talking about CANADA

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CANADA

UBICATION.-

Canada is a country occupying most of northerm North America extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean.

It is world's second largest country by total area and shares land borders with the United States to the south and northwest.

DEMOGRAPHICS.-

Canada's 2006 census counted a total population of 31,612,897; an increase of 5,4% since 2001. Population growth is from immigration and, to a lesser extent, natural growth. About three quarters of Canada's population lives within 150 kilometers of the U.S border. A similar proportion live in urban areas concentrated in the Quebec City Windsor corridor, the BC lower Mainland, and the Calgary Edmonton Corridor in Alberta.
Toronto is Canada's most populous metropolitan are with 5,113,149 people.

HISTORY.-

Various groups of Inuit and First Peoples inhabited North America prehistorically. While no written documents exist, various forms of rock art, petroforms and ancient artifacts provide thousands of years of information about the past. Archaeological studies support a human presence in northern Yukon from 26,500 years ago, and in southern Ontario from 9,500 years ago.

RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT.-

The desire for Responsible Government resulted in the aborted Rebellions of 1837. The Durham Report in 1839 would subsequently recommend responsible government and the assimilation of French Canadians into British culture. The Act of Union in 1840 merged The Canadas into a United Province of Canada. French and English Canadians worked together in the Assembly to reinstate French rights. Responsible government was established for all British North American provinces by 1849.
The signing of the Oregon Treaty by Britain and the United States in 1846 ended the Oregon boundary dispute, extending the border westward along the 49th parallel, and paving the way for British colonies on Vancouver Island and in British Columbia in 1858. Canada launched a series of western exploratory expeditions to claim Rupert's Land and the Arctic region. The Canadian population grew rapidly because of high birth rates; British immigration was offset by emigration to the United States, especially by French Canadians moving to New England.

GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS.-

Canada is constitutional monarchy with Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, as head of state. The country is a parliamentary democracy with a federal system of parliamentary government and strong democratic traditions. The constitution is the supreme law of the country, and consists of written text and unwritten conventions. The constitution Act, 1867, affirmed governance based on parliamentary precedent and divided powers between the federal and provincial governments; the constitution Act, 1982, added the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees basic rights and freedoms that usually cannot be overridden by any level of government though a notwithstanding clause allows the federal parliament and provincial legistlatures to override cerain sections of the Charter for a period of five years and added a constitutional amending formula.

PROVINCES AND TERRITORIES.-

Canada is a federation composed of ten provinces and three territories; in turn, these may be grouped into regions. Western Canada consists of British Columbia and the three Prairie provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba). Central Canada consists of Quebec and Ontario. Atlantic Canada consists of the three Maritime provinces (New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia), along with Newfoundland and labrador. Eastern Canada refers to Central Canada and Atlantic Canada together. Three territories (Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut) make up Northern Canada. Provinces have a large degree of autonomy from the federal government, territories somewhat less. Each has its own provincial or territorial symbols.

ECONOMY.-

Canada is one of the world's wealthiest nations with a high per-capita income, a member of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Develoment (OECD) and Group of Eight. Canada is a mixed market, ranking lower than the U.S. but higher than most western European nations on the Heritage Foundation's index of economic freedom. Since the early 1990s, the Canadian economy has been growing rapidly with low unemployment and large goverment surpluses on the federal level.
Today Canada closely resembles the US in its market oriented economic system, pattern of production, and high living standards. As of October 2007, Canada's national unemployment rate of 5,9% is its lowest in 33 years. Provincial unemployment rates vary from a low of 3,6% in Alberta to a high of 14,6% in Newfoundland and labrador.

CULTURE.-

Canadian culture has historically been influenced by British, Fench, and Aboriginal cultures and traditions. It has also been influenced by American culture because of its proximity and migration between the two countries. American media and entertainment are popular if not dominant in English Canada; conversely, many Canadian cultural products and entertainers are successful in the U.S and worldwide. Many cultural products are marketed toward a unified "North American" or global market.

LANGUAGE.-

Canada's two official languages are English and French. Official Bilingualism in Canada is law, defined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Official languages Act, and Official Language Regulations; it is applied by the Commissioner of Official Languages. English and Frech have equal status in federal courts, Parliament, and in all federal institutions. The public has the right, where there is sufficient demand, to receive federal government services in either English or French, and official language minorities are guaranteed their own schools in all provinces and territories.

Why I am talking about Panama?

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Why I am talking about Germany?

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Germany Country

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. Germany comprises 16 states, which are further subdivided into 439 districts and cities. With over 82 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous country in the European Union. Most of Germany has a temperature climate in which humid westerly winds predominate.
Christianity is the largest religious denomination in Germany with 62%.The second largest religion is Islam with 4% followed by Buddhism and Judaism, both with around 0,25%. Hinduism has some 0,1% adherents. All other religious communities in Germany have 0,05% adherents. About 29,6% Germans have no religion.
Germany is known for its environmental consciousness. Germans generally consider anthropogenic causes to be a major factor in global warming and are almost unanimous in

Zwinger Palace thinking that action is necessary.

The Federal Republic of Germany has a prospering tourism industry. Tourism in Germany has expanded since the end of World War II, and many tourists visit Germany to experience a sense of European history. The countryside exhibits a pastoral aura, while its cities exhibit both a modern and classical feel.

Germany beautiful places

The Mecklenburg Lakes and "Mecklenburg's Switzerland"

The Mecklenburg lakeland region is Germany's largest contiguous area of lakes. In addition to the charming scenery, there's also a wealth of cultural attractions to visit - manor palaces as well as an incredible variety of monuments.

Hamburg - Gateway to the World

Hamburg, the gateway to world, the highlight of the north: there are good reasons why the green city on the river is said to be one of the most beautiful cities in Germany. Everybody is enthusiastic about its flair and maritime charms.