Brief biography of Juan Enrriquez !!

           Juan Enríquez was the founding director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business School and a fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs. His work has been published in Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy, Science, and The New York Times. He is the author of As the Future Catches You and The Untied States of America. He works in business, science, and domestic/international politics.

Juan Enríquez is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on the economic and political impacts of life sciences. He is currently Chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy LLC, a life sciences research and investment firm

          He previously served as CEO of Mexico City's Urban Development Corporation, Coordinator General of Economic Policy and Chief of Staff for Mexico's Secretary of State, and as a member of the Peace Commission that negotiated the cease-fire in Chiapas' Zapatista rebellion..

Google Translate !!

          Google Translate or Google Translator is a free machine translation system provided by Google Inc, based on statistical data to translate text, documents and web pages into other languages

          Google translator, as well as automatic translation tools, has its limitations. While it may help the reader understand the gist of a foreign text, does not always provide accurate translations. For some languages ​​better results than others. Google translator's performance improves the smaller the length of the original text, this effect is particularly evident in the translations from Chinese to English.

          With this we can conclude that even artificial ainteligencia day there to overtake the man, as yet, and I think I always will be required to humans.

Pen Pal !!

            A penpal relationship is often used to practice reading and writing in a foreign language, to improve literacy, to learn more about other countries and life-styles, and to make friendships. As with any friendships in life, some people remain penpals for only a short time, while others continue to exchange letters and presents for life. Some penpals eventually arrange to meet face to face; sometimes leading to serious relationships, or even marriage.

           Pen pal was a very good option for Dr. Altamirano, because he says it was for Pen pal, as he learned English, and he recommended it to Dr. Cantoral, but he said that when he wanted to learn English opto a dictionary header, because the best he married an American girl. jejejeje...

Rosetta Stone !!

               Rosetta Stone is a U.S. company that aims to provide material for an easier learning another language, its creator: Allen Stoltzfus experienced firsthand the difficult task of learning another language, the record and analyze the fact as it is more easy to learn our mother tongue, obviously it works more natural, so it think Rosetta Stone, with the only simple idea: learning another language should be fun, fast and effective.

               Today, while the Rosetta Stone, still calls Virginia home stunning Shenandoah Valley, the company now has offices worldwide, including London, Munich, Tokyo, Seoul, and Boulder, Colorado. To meet the demands from a growing global company, our executive offices are headquartered in Washington, DC

JUNE 4 .....INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CHILDREN VICTIMS OF AGGRESSION INNOCENTS”

The commemoration of the June 4 aims to promote the protection of child rights, in peace and security without the harmful effects produced by armed conflicts, it is urgent to enhance the protection of children in order to avoid involved in these kinds of struggles (CNDH, 2005).

This June 4 gives us a reason for not silencing the causes of suffering permanent war CHILDHOOD IN THE WORLD and that affects millions of children and girls.

Children and war, some horrifying statistics ...

According to UNICEF

w       About half of the 3.6 million people have died in conflicts since 1990 was a minor.

w       About 20 million children have had to flee their homes due to wars.

w       In Sierra Leone there are absolute rates of mortality under five highest in the world after ten years of civil war: 284 of every 1,000 children do not reach their fifth birthday

w       Hundreds of thousands of children have been forced to witness acts of violence or to participate. Many of them are forced to become sex slaves or be cooks, servants, messengers or spies.

w       In Rwanda, 2,000 women, many of them survivors of rape, were tested for HIV during the five years following the 1994 genocide

w       Of these, 80% were ceropositivas. Many had no sexual relations before the war.

w       Children and adolescents are recruited to represent a human potential available, malleable and able to perform various tasks on the front lines without measuring risks.

w       The use of children in war is an equation that closes perfectly macabre minds.

w       In general, children and adolescents obey without objection, may be pushed to commit atrocious acts and are cheaper than adults.

w       The proliferation of small arms and light easy to use, such as pistols, revolvers, assault rifles, light machine guns and grenades, it can be used to children as young as 10.

"The social conditioning that idealizes war and teaches young children  suppress the sensitivity to be hard not to be afraid, not to mourn, to value  victory over all, leading to the development of a "mental machismo" among  politicians who decide without considering moral scruples or emotional. His "masculinity" requires the "courage" to make decisions without worrying about  can cause suffering in others.

The "cold" when taking  decisions, deeply attached to the values ​​of the mystique of masculinity,  then shown as the "ultimate expression" of male rationality "

Microsoft shows new operating system "Windows 8 "

* Its main feature is the touch screen Tablet PC

PALOS VERDES, USA, June 1 .- Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday a version of its next operating system, which emphasizes the features optimized for touch screen Tablet PC, during the technology conference All Things Digital.

Microsoft Corp is expected, the largest global software company, to launch the new system, codenamed "Windows 8 -" in the next 18 months, while in race to catch up with the successful Apple iPad , which was released over a one year ago.

The commanding officer of Microsoft Windows, Steven Sinofsky, said the product does not have an official name, and did not disclose when it would be released.

In a demonstration at the conference in D9 in Palos Verdes, California, a Microsoft employee showed a homepage that is closer to your latest Microsoft software, with "keys " on the screen and can handle pressure be slipped.

The demonstration showed that Microsoft is making progress towards the operation of an operating system for Tablet PC that can compete with Apple iPad, launched 14 months ago.

The exhibition comes five months after Sinofsky showed a rudimentary version of the new Windows system that works with ARM Holdings chips at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. (With information from Reuters / ANE)

Learning English in a fun way !!!

         Before you begin, a brief note to beginners: One of the advantages of English over other languages, is that we always know a little vocabulary and that even without realizing it, we use the language on a daily basis and we see everywhere: billboards, commercials, radio and TV programs, magazines, almost all in the computer, Internet, etc. The situation is no longer "see it" and this is why it is understood. We must take this advantage in our favor.

Tip # 1 Take the Seventh Art to Learn English

          The home theater is one of the most entertaining and educational activities there. With advances in entertainment technology, today we can select the language and choose whether we want to see subtitles or not. In addition, we can see certain sections again and again.

Tip # 2 Learn English with songs

          Singing is one of the natural abilities we have as human beings. How well or poorly we do is subjective, but certainly is a good way to learn English.

Tip # 3 Storytelling

          Reading is essential to acquire vocabulary. No matter if it's a magazine, a book or manual, the important thing is that it is a reading that appeals to us.

Tip # 4 Díctale to your PC

          The speech recognition software every day is better and easier to install. If you have a PC you can take advantage of this.

Tip # 5 Make your computer read for you

          The software of "text to speech (text to speech) is a great help when you have doubts about the pronunciation of a word. This software is designed for people with low vision and can read the information that "sees" on the screen. At first the voices used were very robotic, but now have improved significantly and are a great help. In our case, just type the words and ask the program to read it.