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Celphone change of ‘ face ‘ function in accordance with chosen

Technology mode shift transforms device into celphone, touches-MP3 and camera. Rokr E8, of the Motorola, will be launched in the first semester; price was not divulged.

The celphone telephone Rokr E8, presented for the Motorola in CES 2008, also exerts functions of touches-MP3 and 2 camera digital of megapixels. Until there, nothing excessively. Where the device really is distinguished is in the junction of all these functions with a called technology mode shift: it in accordance with changes the face of the Rokr E8 the selected function.

The accessory does not have “physical” keyboard keys, but they appear when it functions as celphone telephone. Also it does not have specific buttons of digital player of music, but these icons are shown when it exerts this function. Already the icons of zoom and recorder of video if disclose when the user wants a digital camera. The storage capacity is of 2 GB, and is possible expandiz it with a card of 4 GB. The celphone one will be launched in the international market still in the first semester, but its price was not divulged.

New keyboard for games

This keyboard uses basically only the left side of the keyboard to facilitate the players this keyboard costs 35 US dollars but this keyboard is used only for games with counter strike and others.
USB has the keyboard input but if the person has also want the Warrior Xxtreme which costs 70 US dollars.

Novos Baianos!

The group was lined up in the 60s, in Bahia, and debuted in the show “Desembarque dos Bichos Depois do Dilúvio Universal” (1968). They participated in a BPM festival and put out their first album, “É Ferro na Boneca”, in 1969. In 1971, The band moved to Rio de Janeiro, and they all went to live together in a penthouse. By that time, singer/songwriter João Gilberto would spend time with the group, definitively influencing their musical concept and inducing the switch from rock to BPM. The following year, they moved to a farmhouse, living in a community, and releasing the album “Acabou Chorare”, a groundbreaking mix of rock, samba, frevo and choro that would influence performers, songwriters and bands in the years to come. Novos Baianos broke up in 1978, and most of the members went out for solo careers. In 1997, songwriter Galvão wrote the book “Anos 70: Novos

You’ll Be In My Heart – Phill Collins

Watch the Clip

Come, stop your crying, it will be all right
Just take my hand, hold it tight
I will protect you from, all around you
I will be here, don’t you cry

For one so small, you seem so strong
My arms will hold you, keep you safe and warm
This bond between us, can’t be broken
I will be here, don’t you cry

1-’CAUSE you’ll be in my heart
YES, you’ll be in my heart
From this day on, now and forever more

2-You’ll be in my heart
No matter what they say
You’ll be here in my heart, always

Why can’t they understand the way we feel?
They just don’t trust, what they can’t explain
I know we’re different but, deep inside us
We’re not that different at all
(repeat 1..AND)

Don’t listen to them, ’cause what do they know?
We need each other, to have, to hold
They’ll see in time, I know
When destiny calls you, you must be strong
I may not be with you, but you’ve got to hold on
They’ll see in time, I know, we’ll show them together

(repeat 1..BELIEVE ME..I’LL BE THERE)
(repeat 2..YOU’LL BE HERE IN MY HEART..I’LL BE WITH YOU)

Always, I’ll be with you
I’ll be there for you, always, always and always
Just look over your shoulder (3)
I’ll be there, always

Rage Against The Machine – History

Rage Against the Machine was formed in Los Angeles in 1991. Vocalist Zack De La Rocha was previously in a band called Inside Out and took the name “Rage Against the Machine” from Inside Out’s second unreleased album. Their first public performance was in a living room in Orange County. Shortly after this the band recorded a 12-song demo tape which included “Bullet in the Head” later released on RATM’s self titled debut album. They managed to sell 5,000 copies of the demo tape through their fan club and at various live performances around L.A. Rage then supported Porno For Pyros on their debut performance. Rage then got to play two shows on the second stage at Lollapalooza II at Irvine Meadows, California where they were spotted and signed by Epic. In October 92, rage toured Europe supporting Suicidal Tendancies then shortly after the tour finished “Rage Against the Machine” was released on November 10, 1992. The album recieved a lot of attention from critics. Timothy White the billboard editor in cheif remarked, “On the strength of the album, they must be viewed as one of the most original and virtuosic new rock bands in the nation”. The album went on to sell over one million copies and was on Billboard’s top 200 chart for 89 weeks peaking at #45.

In 93 rage went on a US tour where they toured with House of Pain and played benefits such as the Headlining Anti-Nazi League Benefit and the Rock for Choice Benefit. In 93 Rage appeared at Lollapalooza III this time on the main stage and without playing a single note. They created a silent protest against the P-M-R-C (Parents Music Resource Center) with each band member standing naked on stage for 14 minutes each with duct tape across his mouth and the letters “P” “M” “R” “C” written with one letter on each of the members chests. The idea of the protest was if we don’t take action against censorship soon we wont be able to see bands like rage. In december 93 the Freedom video was premiered on MTV’s “120 Minutes”. The video directed by Peter Christopherson, contained live performance footage as well as scenes from the 1992 documentary “Incident at Oglala” and text from Peter Matthiesen’s “In the Spirit of Crazy Horse”. In Febuary 94 the video was #1 in U.S.A. Later In 1994 rage played two benefits for Leonard Peliter. The first was organised by rage and called “For the Freedom of Leonard Peltier”. It was played in California with acts including Cypress Hill and a guest appearance by the Beastie Boys. The second Benefit was “Latinpalooza” which was a joint benefit for Leonard Peltier, United Workers and Para Los Ninos.

With the extreme tour schedule rage had been engaged in they hadn’t got the time to really know each other and rumours of their break up began to circulate. So the band moved to Atlanta and started living together. They attempted to record a new album but found it didn’t work. The came back to L.A and started to work effectively on recording their second album “Evil Empire”. In 96 rage appeared on “Saturday Night Live” and had their two song performance cut to just one song after the band attempted to hang inverted American Flags from their amps as a protest against having president candidate Steve Forbes on the show that night. The next day Bulls on Parade was premiered on MTV’s 120 minutes. Then two days later on April 16, 1999 Evil Empire was released entering the Billboard top 200 charts at #1. In July, 96 rage begin a headlining US tour which toured across the US until October that year.

In January 97, Tom Morello and Zack De La Rocha took part in two-hour debut of “Radio Free L.A” which was broadcast over the internet and on more than 50 commercial US radio stations. The broadcast included two live sets of a band made up of Tom Morello (guitar), Zack De La Rocha (vocals), Flea (Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Bass) and Steven Perkins (Porno for Pyros, drums). In February 97, “Tire Me” won the best Metal performance in the Grammy awards. Shortly after this in April rage began a series of concerts supporting U2. Rage donated it’s net earnings from these performances to organizations including Mumia Abu-Jamal, FAIR, EZLN, and Women Alive. In August rage began a headlining US tour with the Wu-Tang Clan. Wu-Tang Withdrew from the tour after just one week of shows for a reason I dont know. The hole that Wu-Tang left was filled by bands including The Foo Fighters and Roots. On November 25 Rage released it’s first home video more to keep the fans happy than anything else. The video featured live concert footage as well as all the video clips rage had made up to that point. An extra incentive to buy the video was it came with a CD single: a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “The Ghost of Tom Joad”. In Santa Monica that December Tom Morello was arrested for protesting against sweatshop abuses by Guess?.

Early in 98 rage recorded “No Shelter” which appeared on the Godzilla Soundtrack. Midway thorough 98 rage began rehersals for “The Battle of Los Angeles” and by September they had recorded the instrumentals for 14 songs with the lyrics not completed. In January 99 rage organised a benefit for Mumia Abu-Jamal. The benefit attracted a lot of attention and at one point wasn’t going to be allowed to go ahead. But in the end it was allowed and acts including Black Star, Bad Religion and the Beastie Boys appeared. In Geneva, on April 12 Zack appeared before the United Nations on the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal and and the death penalty in the US. If you find some pictures of this conference you will be lucky enough to see zack in a suit. Rage then went on to play the Tibetan Freedom Concert and Woodstock 99. At Woodstock, rage again made their presence felt by burning the American flag on stage as the played their last song – Killing in the Name. On october 12, “Guerilla Radio”, the first single from the new album was released. This was followed up by the Australian release of “The Battle of Los Angeles” on October 25. The album hit US shelves on election day November 2, 1999. On the same day rage made an appearance on David Letterman performing the new single “Guerilla Radio”. Rage then appeared on Conan O’Brien which resulted in the FOP boycotting the NBC network for allowing rage to play. Amidst all this Rage kicked of their US tour promoting the new album.

the epic continues…

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Rehearse of the Beijing opening will be on July 10

The official agency of the government of China Xinhua confirmed this Tuesday that the first test for the official opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing will be held on July 10, at the National Stadium, also known as the Bird Nest.

Preparations for the ceremony will begin in May. From the day June 10, the organizers can already use the National Stadium for tests. But only in July will be held a preview of the festival, with people dressed to the character.

Currently, the organizers working on the development of choreography, music and infrastructure. The opening ceremony will take place on August 8, in the National Stadium.

My name isn’t Johnny

“O verdadeiro lugar de nascimento é aquele em que lançamos pela primeira vez um olhar inteligente sobre nós mesmos (…)” Marguerite Yourcenar

This was the Christmas card sent by the judge Marilena Soares to João Guilherme Estrella in December 1996. In his childhood used to be the south carioca boy, when adult he became the biggest drugdealer in Rio. Arrested in 1995 and waiting for judgement, João had already and will track a long way to finally understand what really mean these words from judge Marilena one of the most strict in the country.

He had everything except limits. João was a middle class young man who enjoyed the most of your youth. Smart and sympathetic he was beloved and popular with friends. As an adventurer he dived in trouble. In the 90′s beggining he became the biggest drugdealer in South Rio.
Investigated by the police was arrested and his name was shown on the newspapers headlines. His history show us common dreams and dramas of our youth.

Simple Past Tense

To form the past simple tense we need to take the verb as we find it in the dictionary and remove the “to”. Then we need to add “-ed” to the verb.

Example

Yesterday we listened to the radio for four hours. (Ayer escuchamos la radio durante cuatro horas)

Some verbs have spelling changes when adding “-ed”.

Example If the verb ends in “-e”, we only add “-d” to form the past simple.

They live in a big house. (Viven en una casa grande)

They lived in a big house. (Vivieron en una casa grande)

If the verb consists of only one syllable and the last three letters are: consonant plus vowel plus consonant, we will double the last consonant, then we add “-ed”.

Example

The police stop the car. (La policía para el coche)

The police stopped the car. (La policía paró el coche)

*Note: Many verbs have irregular past simple tenses, so you need to study them by heart, as they do not follow the above-mentioned rule.

Example

Yesterday we read all the explanations on English verbs. (Ayer leímos todas las explicaciones sobre los verbos ingleses)

For the negative form we use “did not” (didn’t) in front of the verb.

Example

Yesterday we did not study Spanish. (Ayer no estudiamos español)

If the verb we want to negate is the verb “to be”, we do not need to use the auxiliary “did not”, we just add “not” after the verb “to be” in its past simple form.

Example

Yesterday I was not (wasn’t) at home. (Ayer no estuve en casa)

For the interrogative form we use “did” before the person.

Example

Did you study Spanish yesterday? (¿Estudiaste español ayer?)

If it is the verb “to be” we just use it before the person.

Example

Were you at home yesterday? (¿Estuviste en casa ayer?)

SOME GENERAL USES

We use the past simple to talk about an action or event that took place at a specific point in the past. We can say exactly when it happened, or not, if we prefer so.

Example

Yesterday I went to the cinema. (Ayer fui al cine)

This morning I went to the supermarket. (Esta mañana fui al supermercado)

I worked for the same company for two years. (Trabajé para la misma empresa durante dos años)

This last example shows that the action of working for the same company is finished although we do not specify when it started and finished. The past simple refers to a past action (finished) in a past time. This means that not only the action is finished but also the time when it occurred is finished and past.

Example

Last week I read a book. (La semana pasada leí un libro)

Last year I travelled around Europe. (El año pasado viajé por Europa)

We use the expression “Used to” with the verb in the present simple tense but it implies a past action that was repeated over a period of time (in the past) or was frequent (in the past).

Example

The girls used to play with their dolls. (Las niñas solían jugar con sus muñecas)

This example means that the girls do not play with their dolls anymore, but in the past, the action of playing with their dolls was common, frequent, repeated by the girls.

With the past simple it is frequent to find in the sentence adverbs of time specific to the past such: Yesterday, the day before yesterday, last week, last year, two years ago, etc.

Example

We went to the cinema yesterday evening. (Fuimos al cine ayer por la tarde)

He had a Chinese meal two weeks ago. (Comió una comida china hace dos semanas)

They went to Australia last year on their holiday. (Fueron a Australia el año pasado en sus vacaciones)

Lets us conjugate a verb as an example. We are going to take the verb “to study”.

	Positive	Negative	Question
I	studied	didn’t study	Did I study?
You	studied	didn’t study	Did you study?
He	studied	didn’t study	Did he study?
She	studied	didn’t study	Did she study?
It	studied	didn’t study	Did it study?
We	studied	didn’t study	Did we study?
You (all)	studied	didn’t study	Did you study?
They	studied	didn’t study	Did they study?

Exercises 1
Exercises 2