viernes, 31 de julio de 2009

The Treason


In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more serious acts of disloyalty to one's sovereign or nation.
Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife (treason against the king was known as high treason and treason against a lesser superior was petit treason).

A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor.


Oran's Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as: "...[a]...citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation]." In many nations, it is also often considered treason to attempt or conspire to overthrow the government, even if no foreign country is aided or involved by such an endeavour. Outside legal spheres, the word "traitor" may also be used to describe a person who betrays (or is accused of betraying) their own political party, nation, family, friends, ethnic group, team, religion, social class, or other group to which they may belong.

Often, such accusations are controversial and disputed, as the person may not identify with the group of which they are a member, or may otherwise disagree with the group leaders making the charge. See, for example, race traitor.

lunes, 27 de julio de 2009

GOOGLE


Google Inc. is the owner of the Google brand, whose main product is the search engine of the same name. It was founded on September 7, 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin (two Ph.D. students in Computer Science from Stanford University).
Although its main product is search, the company also offers other services: a comparison of prices called Froogle, but later renamed Google Product Search, a search engine for material stored on disks local Google Desktop Search, and a service email called Gmail, which makes available to its users more than 7 GB (September 24, 2008) and space is growing steadily at a rate of approximately 36 bytes per second. It is also famous program Google Earth 3D map with high resolution pictures. Recently launched a beta version of its instant messaging service based on Jabber / Google Talk XMMP called.

viernes, 24 de julio de 2009

Pollution


Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into an environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organisms .

Pollution can take the form of chemical substances, or energy, such as noise, heat, or light energy. Pollutants, the elements of pollution, can be foreign substances or energies, or naturally occurring; when naturally occurring, they are considered contaminants when they exceed natural levels.

Pollution is often classed as point source or nonpoint source pollution.

The Blacksmith Institute issues annually a list of the world's worst polluted places. In the 2007 issues the ten top nominees are located in Azerbaijan, China, India, Peru, Russia, Ukraine and Zambia.

martes, 21 de julio de 2009

Bon Jovi


Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, Bon Jovi formed in 1983 with guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, bassist Alec John Such and drummer Tico Torres. Other than the departure of Alec John Such in 1994, the lineup has remained the same for the past 26 years. After two moderately successful albums in 1984 and 1985, the band scored big with Slippery When Wet (1986) and New Jersey (1988), which launched the band into global super stardom.

Throughout their career, the band has released ten studio albums, two compilation albums and one live album; and have sold over 120 million albums worldwide.They have performed more than 2,600 concerts in over 50 countries for more than 34 million fans.In 2006 Bon Jovi were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame,and in 2004 they were ranked number 14 in Q magazine's 50 Greatest Bands of All Time. The band was also honored with the Award Of Merit at the American Music Awards in 2004.

viernes, 17 de julio de 2009

TIPS TO LEARN ENGLISH


1 .- Be patient with yourself. Please note that English learning is a gradual process and it will not happen overnight.
2 .- Define your learning objectives well. Why do you want to learn English? What you need to learn? Having clear goals will allow you to focus your efforts on specific tasks that you really close to your goals.
3 .- Make learning a habit. Try to learn something every day. It is much easier and more effective to study English a little bit each day to several hours once a week. It's like sport: if you do a bit of sport every day, your health gradually improved, but only if you do plenty of exercise once a week, the results are not the same.
4 .- Now you have defined your learning objectives, choose either your educational materials. There are all kinds of materials for different levels and areas of development. The training materials you need a primary school pupil, is not the same you need a college student or an executive. In most cases you need material to cover grammar, writing, reading comprehension, listening comprehension and oral expression.

miércoles, 15 de julio de 2009

Vanity


In conventional parlance, vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others. Prior to the 14th century it did not have such narcissistic undertones, and merely meant futility. The related term vainglory is now often seen as an archaic synonym for vanity, but originally meant boasting in vain, ie. unjustified boasting;although glory is now seen as having an exclusively positive meaning, the Latin term gloria (from which it derives) roughly means boasting, and was often used as a negative criticism.

In many religions vanity, in its modern sense, is considered a form of self-idolatry, in which one rejects God for the sake of one's own image, and thereby becomes divorced from the graces of God. The stories of Lucifer, Narcissus (who gave us the term narcissism) and others attend to a pernicious aspect of vanity. Philosophically speaking, vanity may refer to a broader sense of egoism and pride. Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that "vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality."One of Mason Cooley's aphorisms is "Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful."

In Christian teachings vanity is considered an example of pride, one of the seven deadly sins. This list evolved from an earlier list of eight sins, which included vainglory as a sin independent of pride.

In Orthodox church, vanity is one of 8 sinful and diabolical passions, the fight against which is a major task of every Orthodox Christian.

martes, 14 de julio de 2009

LA TV EN EL MUNDO



A television is a telecommunications system for transmission and reception of moving images and sound from a distance.
This transmission can be performed using radio waves or by specialized networks of cable television. The receiver signal is the TV.
The word "television" is a hybrid of the Greek voice "Tele" (distance) and the Latin "visio" (vision). The term television deals with all aspects of television programming and transmission. It is sometimes abbreviated as TV. This term was first used in 1900 by Constantin Perski at the International Congress of Electricity in Paris.
The World Television Day is celebrated on November 21 in commemoration of the date it was first held in 1996 the World Television Forum at the United Nations.

Lie


A lie is a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement, especially with the intention to deceive others, often with the further intention to maintain a secret or reputation, protect someone's feelings or to avoid a punishment. To lie false or that one has not reasonably ascertained to be true with the intention that it be taken for the truth by oneself or someone else. A liar is a person who is lying, who has previously lied, or who tends by nature to lie repeatedly. Is to state something that one knows to be

Lying is typically used to refer to deceptions in oral or written communication. Other forms of deception, such as disguises or forgeries, are generally not considered lies, though the underlying intent may be the same. However, even a true statement can be considered a lie if the person making that statement is doing so to deceive. In this situation, it is the intent of being untruthful rather than the truthfulness of the statement itself that is considered.

martes, 7 de julio de 2009

Banda Sinaloense


Banda is a brass-based form of traditional Mexican music. Banda’s play a wide variety of songs, including rancheras, corridos, cumbias, baladas, and boleros. Bandas are most widely known for their rancheras, but they also play modern Mexican pop, rock, and cumbias. La Banda el Recodo, Banda Sinaloense MS, Banda Machos, Banda Maguey, Banda Cuisillos, La Arrolladora Banda El Limón, El Chapo de Sinaloa, Banda Jerez, El Coyote, Sergio Vega and Julio Preciado are some of the most famous banda artists. Banda is primarily a male-dominated genre; however, there are also a few all-female bandas such as Banda Las Tapatías and Banda Soñadoras, as well as a few prominent female singers such as Yolanda Pérez, and Graciela Beltrán

domingo, 5 de julio de 2009

universal serial bus


The USB 1.0 specification was introduced in 1996. It was intended to replace the multitude of connectors at the back of PCs, as well as to simplify software configuration of communication devices. The original USB 1.0 specification had a data transfer rate of 12 Mbit/s.


USB is a serial bus standard to connect devices to a host computer. USB was designed to allow many peripherals to be connected using a single standardized interface socket and to improve plug and play capabilities by allowing hot swapping; that is, by allowing devices to be connected and disconnected without rebooting the computer or turning off the device. Other convenient features include providing power to low-consumption devices, eliminating the need for an external power supply; and allowing many devices to be used without requiring manufacturer-specific device drivers to be installed.


The wine


Wine is an alcoholic beverage typically made of fermented grape juice. The natural chemical balance of grapes is such that they can ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes or other nutrients.

Wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast consumes the sugars found in the grapes and converts them into alcohol. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts are used depending on the type of wine being produced.

Although other fruits such as apples and berries can also be fermented, the resultant wines are normally named after the fruit from which they are produced (for example, apple wine or elderberry wine) and are generically known as fruit wine or country wine (not to be confused with the French term vin de pays). Others, such as barley wine and rice wine (i.e., sake), are made from starch-based materials and resemble beer and spirit more than wine, while ginger wine is fortified with brandy.