Rich and famous people’s foundations. Be. Alejandro Cañas B.

William Henry Gates III (Seattle, Washington, USA, October 28, 1955) better known as Bill Gates, is a businessman and philanthropist U.S., cofounder of software company Microsoft, producer of the operating system for personal computers used in more the world (according to some estimates nine out of ten computers using some system Windows).
He studied at the elite private school of Lakeside in Seattle. He created the software company Microsoft on April 4, 1975, while still a student at Harvard University. Bill Gates is third in the annual list of the largest personal fortunes made by Forbes magazine, with estimated assets of around 56,000 million U.S. dollars (2007) .7 In 1994, purchased a manuscript of Leonardo da Vinci by $ 25 million .
He suffers from Asperger syndrome.
His company after numerous delays, Microsoft visionary released latest operating system, Vista, in January. Last June announced his retirement from company he cofounded 31 years ago. The Harvard dropout who promised "a computer on every desk and in every home" now focusing time and talents on tackling diseases (hepatitis B, AIDS, malaria) in Africa, boosting America's lackluster high school graduation rate and helping women abroad start small businesses. This summer bridge buddy Warren Buffett pledged majority of his Berkshire Hathaway stock to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation over the next 20 years, potentially doubling foundation's endowment. Sells 20 million Microsoft shares a quarter, plows proceeds into personal investment vehicle Cascade. Today more than half of net worth invested outside Microsoft.

RICH AND FAMOUS PEOPLE’S FUNDATIONS. BY NICOLAS ALVIAR GR 10

THE OPRAH WINFREY FOUNDATIONS

The Oprah Winfrey Foundations provide grants to not-for-profit organizations that offer education opportunities and enhance the quality of life for children and families throughout the world.

After five years of planning and building, Oprah opened a Boys & Girls Club in her hometown, Kosciusko, Mississippi.

other mision i named the: Oprah's mission: to give hope to children in South Africa. How her dream became 21 days, 50,000 children and a million moments of happiness.

To date, Oprah's Angel Network has funded 60 new schools in 13 countries, including an innovative new primary school called Seven Fountains. Help make education a priority around the world,and the Families displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita now have new places to call home! Take a walk around their new neighborhoods. all this tings maked by the oprah fundation.

Uncommon tourist places. Be Alejandro Cañas B.

The most important group of islands of the country is Mindanao in the southern part of The Philippines.
Davao, which has an international airport, is the industrial center of Mindanao and is composed of three provinces and a city.
The mount Apo, is 2.954 meters high, it is the highest mountain of the country, and is the mansion of the Philipine eagle that is on the verge of extinction.
A walk along the city and his surroundings will take the visitor to Dabaw Ethnic, a small native village of the tribe Mandaba; to the museum Dabaw, whose exhibition includes objects of crafts, tribal suits; and to the temples Taoist and Buddhist of Lon Wa. Also it is possible to visit the farms Greenhills and Derling where Davao's orchids shine. The orchid waling-waling is the queen of the orchids of the province due to his color and size.
The Club of Golf Apo that tiene18 holes is opened the visitors and offers a panoramic sight of the surroundings.
Zamboanga's exotic city is a fusion of races in the south of The Philippines. In Zamboanga and his surroundings there wide variety of ethnic groups like: the Badjao, the Subanon, the Samas, the Sausug and the Yakan, those are the most important in the region.
Though the Moslem influence is visible in the architecture, the Christians form 80 per cent of all the inhabitants of Zamboanga and 20 remaining per cent belong in the main to the Moslem religion.
The major popular attractions of the province are the source of Pillar; Pasonanca's park, with his botanical garden; the Deep River; and Taluksangay, where the members of the tribe Samal live in his huts on supports. The Hotel Lantaka is an ideal place for the visitors who want to do shopping. In the nearby sea they find the Moslem crafts, so called vintas, with multicolored candles, full of objects of crafts like mats, utensils of bronze and beautiful indigenous fabrics. The island of Saint Cross, it is 25 minutes in boat from the city, is known by his beach of pink coral, whereas Samal island is an ideal site for the swimming and the snorkeling.

Uncommon tourist places JAPAN BY NICOLAS ALVIAR

The Japanese archipelago stretches over 3000km (1900 miles) from the temperate, northernmost island of Hokkaido to the subtropical islands of Okinawa in the south. Both Tokyo and Kyoto are located on Honshu, the largest and economically and culturally most important of the four major islands. Shikoku and Kyushu lie to the southwest. Much of the archipelago is mountainous and only a small percentage of land is available for agriculture and development. Thus large areas remain forested while towns and cities tend to be densely populated. The coastline is indented with numerous bays, inlets and small islands.

EXCURSION
Narita, location of Narita Tokyo Airport, is an attractive old town with a large and impressive pilgrimage temple, Narita-san. Nearby Tokyo Disneyland is a major year-round attraction for Japanese and foreigners alike. Two hours north of Tokyo in Nikko, the extraordinary Toshogu Shrine complex is situated with the mausoleum of the founder of Japan’s Tokugawa Shogunate. The surrounding Nikko National Park offers mountain hot spring resorts and opportunities for hiking, fishing and boating. Pottery fans will enjoy the rural kiln town of Mashiko. The coastal town of Kamakura, one hour south of Tokyo, was the seat of Japan’s medieval feudal government and abounds in historic sights. Highlights include the giant bronze Great Buddha, colorful Hachimangu Shrine and picturesque Enoshima Island. The international port city of Yokohama, 30 minutes from Tokyo, has a vibrant Chinatown, harbor district and historic Sankei-en Garden. Japan’s highest mountain, Mount Fuji, may be climbed during the high summer. Located one hour 30 minutes from Tokyo is Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, a recreational paradise offering hot spring resorts, golf courses and facilities for fishing, camping, hiking, swimming and boating. At Hakone, cable cars carry visitors over volcanic landscapes of boiling mud, sightseeing boats ply scenic Lake Ashi and there is an Open Air Sculpture Museum, a Porsche Museum and several sights historical interest.

Amazing animals. By Alejandro Cañas B.

THE BEST FATHER OF THE WORLD (THE SEA HORSE)

The seahorse is a small very specializing salt-water fish. It´s name refers to seemed of his face with the terrestrial horses, but nothing else it is possible to compare with them.

They reproduce from the spring until the summer’s months. In this epoch, the male and the female interlace with the tail. After a wedding dance, in this position, the female penetrates of his sewer, with help of a genital papilla of some 3mm. Of length, his eggs to the bag ventral of the males, that it is covered with soft fabric and arranged in compartments, to support every separated egg, as in spongy cells.


A male can be visited certainly number of females who leave eggs him, but if an egg doesn´t manage to come to one of these departments doesn’t develop. Nevertheless, which fall good, develop in this bag up to 50 or 60 days and dead inside it.

The birth or ejection of the young men seems to be exhausting for the father. Supporting firmly with the tail as an aid, he rubs his bag against a shell or rock until the young men go out, with fractions of his internal fabrics.
A male of good size can give birth more than 400 young men, who are the perfect reply of the adult.

AMAZING ANIMALS

NICOLAS ALVIAR 200616208
DERECHO
GR.10
10.04.08

Some animals have developed amazing adaptations to their environments. Many different types of energy exist in the environment, some of which humans cannot detect. Here are some examples of how some animals sense the outside world and the anatomical structures that allow them to do so.

For example:

Bees
Can see light between wavelengths 300 nm and 650 nm.
Have chemoreceptors (taste receptors) on their jaws, forelimbs and antennae.
Worker honey bees have 5,500 lenses ("ommatidia") in each eye.
Worker honey bees have a ring of iron oxide ("magnetite") in their abdomens that may be used to detect magnetic fields. They may use this ability to detect changes in the earth's magnetic field and use it for navigation.
Can see polarized light.

Bats
Can detect warmth of an animal from about 16 cm away using its "nose-leaf".
Bats can also find food (insects) up to 18 ft. away and get information about the type of insect using their sense of echolocation.
Can hear frequencies between 3,000 and 120,000 Hz.
Snakes
Pit-vipers have a heat-sensitive organ between the eyes and the nostrils about 0.5 cm deep. This organ has a membrane containing 7,000 nerve endings that respond to temperature changes as small as 0.002-0.003 degrees centigrade. A rattlesnake can detect a mouse 40 cm away if the mouse is 10 degrees centigrade above the outside temperature.
The tongue of snakes has no taste buds. Instead, the tongue is used to bring smells and tastes into the mouth. Smells and tastes are then detected in two pits, called "Jacobson's organs", on the roof of their mouths. Receptors in the pits then transmit smell and taste information to the brain.
Snakes have no external ears. Therefore, they do not hear the music of a "snake charmer". Instead, they are probably responding to the movements of the snake charmer and the flute. However, sound waves may travel through bones in their heads to the middle ear.

Inusual Job. By Alejandro Cañas B.

MORTAL FISHING
This activity develops in October, with a season that goes from four days and that strange comes to more from twelve; in shifts of 20 hours exposed to an extreme climate, big waves and constant danger of suffocation, hypothermia and serious injuries. But in counterpart, with the possibility of winning up to 100,000 dollars in five days of work.
Alaska is the scene where there is carried out what might be named without fear of doubts, the most dangerous work of the world. It is a question of the fishing crab, a office for rash and brave men that they do not suffer from fear of the water and it is not important for whom to challenge to the death.
The American dream attracts many Hispanics who every year put in risk his life, having travelled up to what might be considered to be the end of the world; in order to try to extract a fortune to the sea. Here the gold this one in the crab that lives in the entrails of a violent and cold ocean that exists between Alaska and Siberia.
Almost every fisherman of crabs of Alaska returns to the coast with serious injuries and some class of wound: hands and squashed fingers, and ribs and broken extremities. And in the worst accidents the people die: the constant danger of suffocation, results in that more than 80 % dies drowned, as result of having being dragged by the hut, because of the incredibly violent seas.
Obviously, the risk implies an immense remuneration and in case of these fishermen it is in the habit of being very juicy: in counterpart to the immense danger there exists the possibility of winning up to hundred thousand dollars in five days of work.
In conclusion can say that this one is the work most dangerously of the world, but also it is the best paid.