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IndexIndex..................................................................................................................................................2

“To the Reader”.................................................................................................................................3

Smoking ban in Costa Rica...............................................................................................................4

By Dayana Ceciliano.......................................................................................................................4

In vitro fecundation..........................................................................................................................5

By Dayana Ceciliano.......................................................................................................................5

Five “S” and Time management.......................................................................................................6

By: Dayana Ceciliano......................................................................................................................6

TANGO: music, poetry and dance....................................................................................................8

By Dayana Ceciliano.......................................................................................................................8

London 2012 Olympic Games........................................................................................................10

By: Jose Andrés Calvo Soto...........................................................................................................10

University retirement.....................................................................................................................12

By: Jose Andrés Calvo Soto...........................................................................................................12

The Euro Cup..................................................................................................................................14

By: Jose Andrés Calvo Soto...........................................................................................................14

How can IT help your Business?....................................................................................................15

By: Jose Andrés Calvo Soto...........................................................................................................15

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“To the Reader”

Dear Reader:

“Healthy lifestyle and sports” is a new

magazine inspired by the importance that our team wants to provide to the health

of our readers.  We firmly believe that having a healthy life is

a goal that people achieve not only by practicing some sports but paying attention to s

ome good habits that can be implemented in our daily life.

In the first part you will find some articles about health but from a legal

perspective.  These are two of the most popular are controversial topics

in the legislative current nowadays: “Smoking ban in Costa Rica” and “In vitro

Fecundation”.  Also in this section you will read a brief note about “Time management

and five “S” witch are some skills that can teach you about organizing your time

and work environment.

For the second part, we have research about sports, traditions

and an interesting article about the Information technologies and how they

can help you in your business.  We selected these articles since we believe that, as

a part of the health, all people need to have rest

and improve the playful area without disregarding their job area.

We really hope you enjoy reading “Healthy lifestyle and sports”, all your comments

and suggestions are well come.

Best Regards,

The Editor.

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Smoking ban in Costa RicaBy Dayana Ceciliano

In march 26th, 2012 was published in the official newspaper of the Republic of Costa

Rica the “General Law of Control of Tobacco and its harmful effects in health”1. The

main objectives of this law, according with its second article are: to reduce the

consumption of products made from the tobacco;

minimize human exposure to harmful smoke

products, to reduce the damage to health, social

life and environment caused by smoking, fighting

the illicit trade of these products, among others.

This law entered in the legislature current in 2009

and it is part of the commitments of our country that is signatory of the Framework

Convention on World Health Organization (WHO)2. However, in Costa Rica our

members of the National Assembly, signed the acceptance of this framework in July of

2008. This framework is to rule the production, sale, distribution, advertisement and

taxation of tobacco.

Since the effective date of this Law in Costa Rica, one of the changes that the citizens

have experienced in the social area is the reduction of people smoking inside the bars,

colleges, public buildings. The economic field has experienced changes as well, for

example, the price of the cigarettes has increase in order to charge more taxes for the

consumption of all this products and the advertisement are almost totally banned in

the television, the billboards and inside the cigarettes the boxes, the producers have

the responsibility of informing about the bad effects for health of smoking.

1 General Law of Control of Tobacco and its harmful effects in health, taken from: http://www.gaceta.go.cr/pub/2012/03/26/ALCA37_26_03_2012.pdf2 Information retrieved from http://www.ministeriodesalud.go.cr/index.php/centro-de-prensa/noticias/3-newsflash/323-aprobacion-de-ley-de-tabaco-y-sus-efectos-nocivos-en-la-salud-traera-multiples-beneficios-para-los-ciudadanos, on August 11th, 2012

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Nevertheless, is important to highlight that there are two different opinions in the

country regarding to the law that ban smoking. On one behalf, for some of the

smokers, this law is against their rights and they consider that if they smoke is not

because it is a trend but an addiction and addictions are illness; so, they consider that

their rights are violated. And, on the other behalf, people that do not smoke: the

passive smokers think that they have the right of being in a smoke free environment

and this is part of their right to health.

In my opinion, these kinds of laws are important to prevent some illness that have a

high price to all the Costa Ricans and for me it is important to support these initiatives

that help the country to become a best place to live. With this law we are helping the

smokers to overcome their addiction, even when they are not aware about it and,

more important to that, we are taking some measures to avoid cancer and, as a

consequence, we are preserving the life.

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In vitro fecundationBy Dayana Ceciliano

According to the National Cancer Institute In vitro fertilization is a procedure in which “eggs are removed from a woman’s ovary and combined with sperm outside the body to form embryos. The embryos are grown in the laboratory for several days and then

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either placed in a woman’s uterus or cryopreserved (frozen) for future use.” 3 This topic has become really popular in the last years because Costa Rica, has been developing a discussion about the legality of this method in the public and private practice.

Most of the discussion has to do with the issue of defining life, not only as a medical but legal term and whether IVF procedure violate the human right of “life” or not. Is important high light that in the Costa Rican Political Constitution the right to life is enshrined in the article number 21 and also our State has signed and ratified many international agreements in order to protect this right such as the American Convention on Human Rights (Pacto San José)4, among others.

But what is life? For lawyers is difficult to define it, nevertheless this was the reason why in 2001 the Costa Rican Constitutional Tribunal annulled a Presidential Decree that allowed that practice and determined that In Vitro Fertilization was against the constitution, because it violates the right to life of the unborn child or children5. Since that moment, it was started a battle of 10 pairs that find this judgment harmful of other the human rights as equality, dignity, pursuit of family.

For this reason these couples brought this petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and after almost 10 years in 2011 the Commission sent the petition to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights6. Now, even when exists a project of Law in the Legislative Assembly that will rule this practice, we have to expect for the trial against Costa Rica get started, the IAHR decide the future of the IVF in our country and of course to see the results of the judgment.

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Five “S” and Time managementBy: Dayana Ceciliano

Having a good budget of one’s time and organizing the workplace are tools that will

definitely define the success of people, not only in the professional area or in business

3 Retrieved from http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary?CdrID=440108, on July 03, 20124 Américan Convention on Human Right, “Article 4. Right to Life: 1. Every person has the right to have his life respected. This right shall be protected by law and, in general, from the moment of conception. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life (…)5 Constitutional Tribunal of Costa Rica, Sentence 2000-023066 OEA-IACHR, file 12361.

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but in life in general. “Five S” and the “time management”

are two methods currently used to maximize efficiency of

people all around the world.

On the one hand, it is important to say that according

to experts time management is a method similar to

managing one’s life: “too much time loss can be equated too

many great things and opportunities missed”7. Time management should not only be

used in work tasks but in daily activities, such an in school or college, home chores,

planning free time and so on. On the other hand, “five S” is a Japanese method, an

structured program to implement workplace organization and standardization. This

method implements some skills like safety, work efficiency, productivity, ownership

and, as a consequence, people motivation on their jobs.

These techniques are really important in a corporate world since that when

one person use them properly, he or she will assure successes because it will improve

the efficiency, proactively, motivation, productiveness and will develop the activities

or task a better way, avoiding the “last-minute” stress.

However, for the operation of these methods it is

necessary to take into account some tips. In the case of

time management, people should use planners or make

lists about the pending tasks, use the time wisely and

prizing yourself for every accomplished goal. For five s, it

is important to understand the meaning of every “s” word: sort, set in order, shine,

standardize and sustain and then evaluate the application of the program.

We chose these topics because we consider them necessary to learn how to

organize the time and workplace in a way that allows us, as future professionals, to

attend all our commitments but also enjoy free time with family and friends. As well,

we believe that part of the success of outstanding people has to do with the manner in 7 Harris, J. (2008) Time management: 100 success secrets, retrieved on July 14th, 2012 from http://books.google.co.cr/books?id=4LC0vQRoSqEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=time+management+tips&source=bl&ots=YEd_wROUZy&sig=eAxvOs7v6Me2F7dv1gVl8QZSBfY&hl=es&sa=X&ei=cKgBUPaWD5Gk8ATDlK2qCA&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=time%20management%20tips&f=false 

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which they divide their time and activities: they can enjoy their jobs but also they can

spend quality time when they are not working.

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TANGO: music, poetry and dance By Dayana Ceciliano

Some experts say the tango dance is part of the

Argentine tradition and folklore; however it

has been found to be the Uruguayan culture as

well. Tango music comes before the dance as

part of the black and immigrant roots and it

started to be known in the late XIX century.

Tango became a national and popular symbol

with Carlos Gardel, in 1917, when he recorded

the song “mi noche triste”. Additionally, tango

is defined by Royal Academy: “Argentine dance

with bonded couples, binary musical form and

rhythm of two by four, internationally spread”

This Argentine tradition emerged in the Rio de La Plata region, in the middle of

popular social classes, when merged European immigrants, African slaves and native

people or creoles habitants. It´s was born a particular cultural identity as a product of

the mixture of beliefs, rites and customs of this people.

Around the 80’s, tango started to spread in theaters and academies. In the beginning,

this dance was practiced by men and later women were incorporated as dance

partners. Since October 2009 tango musical gender is considered as Intangible

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Cultural Heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural

Organization, UNESCO. Tango has succeeded in spreading its true spirit worldwide,

but at the same time it has adopted new ages which includes a wide range of

musicians, professional dancers and others.

Some characteristics that identify tango are: dance, music and poetry, since these

elements are part of the culture. Tango dance consists of three basic steps: the

embrace, the slow walking style and improvisation. However, the important thing is

that with tango, through the body language along the dance, the couple emotions have

to be transmitted.

In the tango dance it is important the strong embrace of the couple, both have to see

the same side: woman to the right and man to the left and then both walk like if they

were supported in the front part of feet. During this dance, the couple must do shapes,

pauses, to create different movements for each of them without dropping each other,

these steps are called:

“Cuts, creeks and

doodles".

Nowadays, people

dance tango to

transmit some kind of

interpersonal

communication; it is

danced in clubs,

contests and as a

hobby in some cases. Experts say that tango reflects some sadness in dancers and for

other people also it is related to sexual desires.

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London 2012 Olympic GamesBy: Jose Andrés Calvo Soto

The XXX Olympic Games was a sporting event that took place from 27 July to 12

August 2012 in the city of London, UK. Around 10,500 athletes from 204 countries

participating in the Olympic Games in London.

London is the first city to host the

Olympics three times, having

previously played host in 1908

and 1948.

Twenty-six were developed

covering 39 Olympic sports

disciplines. With respect to the

previous edition, two sports were less with the removal of baseball and softball from

the Olympic program. However, there was some news: for the first time took place in

the women's boxing, also in cycling track the number of competitions for each gender

was 5, unlike Beijing where he had 5 for men and 3 for women and in added tennis

mixed doubles competition.

There were 204 national federations affiliated to the International Olympic

Committee. It was the same number of representations regarding the Beijing

Olympics, but was disbanded in 2011 the Olympic Committee of the Netherlands

Antilles, and his place was taken by Brunei, who had been excluded from participation

in previous games. However, the athletes of the Netherlands Antilles, as well as an

athlete in Southern Sudan (country without a National Olympic Committee),

competed as Independent

Olympic Participants.

The number of athletes at the

Games totaled 10,919, of whom

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6,078 were men and 4,841 were women.2 fact, for the first time in the history of the

Olympics, women competed in all the delegations, as Olympic Committees Saudi

Arabia, Tasting and Brunei, which traditionally had never been included, decided his

inscripción.60 Another highlight was the participation of South African Oscar

Pistorius, who became the first double amputee athlete to participate in the Games.

This is an issue that has been the talk in recent months by the crisis in England these

days, however we must not forget the effort of all those participating in this event,

from athletes to organizers, lived large emotions.

Also like to mention the opening and closing events of the Olympics, are among the

most emotional moments during these sports competitions.

Now we wait with excitement as the Olympics in 2016 Brazil World Cup Soccer also in

that same country in 2014.

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University retirementBy: Jose Andrés Calvo Soto

As a co-curricular activity for our English fourth level class, we had a tour to Centro

Recreativo Amanecer in San Ramon,

Alajuela. We had group activities

and we talked about topics of our

interest. the subject of additions was

one of them, and we had the

opportunity to listen to our

colleagues’ opinion concerning what

addictions mean to them. I conclude

that an addiction is an

uncontrollable need that a person develops by consuming something that gives

pleasure.

Among the most common addictions of modern times, we have: internet and social

networks, video games, drugs, sex, sports, work and cell phones, exercises and plastic

surgery.

People become addicts for many reasons, such as stress caused by work pressure;

because he feels pleasure to use and to feel accepted by friends.

In case of drugs, they are often taken because of group pressure or because people feel

the need to "feel better or superior". When a person is addicted to something they

have no control over it and just want to do the things that give them pleasure. Some

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people may stop eating, or Talking with other people just to feel because of an

addiction.

Stress is very common these times, so it is almost impossible to live without it. For me,

stress comes as an annoyance that happens on the chest when we have many tasks or

backlog, and there is no time to finish them; stress is not allowed to think or work in a

comfortable and relaxed environment. People usually need to have time to breathe

deeply, sort ideas, and feel calm and peaceful, in order to release stress and make

things right.

One way to release stress is through exercises or sports; they are good for both; the

body and the mind.

Living in harmony is important in

order to have a balance in life, and to

have control over stress and enjoy

life. This equilibrium status will

occur produces a better

environment, relax and focus.  

There is only one way to overcome

an addiction, that is: “Take the

decision to leave it and abandon don’t come back to it forever never again” that would

be a true and mature decision to end the addition.

The time we had in San Ramon was a great help because we had a very nice and

relaxed moment. We also practiced English a lot and learned many things about

addictions, stress, how to avoid them and how balance can help us in our personal life,

work and family.

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The Euro Cup By: Jose Andrés Calvo Soto

The Euro Cup is one of the most

important tournaments of national

selection level in which are evolved

teams from the Union of European

Football Associations known as

UEFA.

 

The fact that Spain had won 2 times the Euro Cup and the World Cup is very

interesting because is something that had never happened before.

 UEFA indicated ten players from the Spain team were selected like the best players of

the tournament, like Andre Iniesta as the best player and Fernando Torres with the

golden boot trophy for being the top scorer of the tournament. This is due to the great

generation of players that Spain has and the great work done by the teams of the

football league in Spain such as Barcelona Football Club which has provided seven

players and five of them are holders

 

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Seeing the success of these athletes to achieve these unique achievements will

generate a great joy to all the Spanish

and will give a great example of

overcoming all young idols of this great

football team.

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http://totallycoolpix.com/2012/07/euro-2012-final-spain-vs-italy/

How can IT help your Business?By: Jose Andrés Calvo Soto

In today’s economy every single company in the world is trying to stay ahead of

his competition. Technology on the other hand helps companies to efficiently develop

their abilities in the best possible way with the best available resources

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IT stands for

Information Technologies,

this means basically all the

available technology applied

to Information. . IT brings

to the table those tools to

make it happen by giving

businesses all around the

world the necessary tools to

take the best out of available

technologies. There are numerous successful cases in which IT has been applied to

businesses in our country; for example, which are known as handheld devices.

Throughout they have experienced changes in the structure and function. Now, they

are more resistant to hard work, moisture and cold. They are more resistant to falling

from 2 meters. They also have the option of storage, networking through: Wi-Fi,

Bluetooth, 3G, GSM, which allows the updating of databases immediate or query data

at the right time. Furthermore, the use of these devices eliminates the high

consumption of paper and snapshot management information.

In our country they have been used in the pineapple exportation market helping

workers keep track of what’s being exported. Another ally who is here to stay are the

systems of sales and online orders. These let you manage many customers at once,

without requiring a high number of employees in a call center or office serving the

public. These provide customers the ability to check stock and prices of products

without having to move to the company by reducing the expenditure of time and

money.

By seeing all these happening right now you may wonder what’s to come, well, the

next huge jump in the IT field is cloud computers. We will not need any hardware or

licensed software in the future because we will have all we need in the “cloud”.

Instead of installing a suite of software for each computer, you'd only have to load one

application. That application would allow workers to log into a Web-based service

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which hosts all the programs the user would need for his or her job. Remote machines

owned by another company would run everything from e-mail to word processing to

complex data analysis programs. It's called cloud computing. In a cloud computing

system, there's a significant workload shift. Local computers no longer have to do all

the heavy lifting when it comes to running applications. The network of computers

that make up the cloud handles them instead. Hardware and software demands on the

user's side decrease. The only thing the user's computer needs to be able to run is the

cloud computing system's interface software, which can be as simple as a Web

browser, and the cloud's network takes care of the rest. By using cloud computing we

can also host meeting, have access to a remote desktop and seeing all that happens

within our business no matter

where we are.

After all the wonders that IT offer

us you may want to join this, well

all it takes its action. The first

thing that you need before

getting into this its assigning a

budget to spend on technology, in

order to do this you might first

want to hire an IT specialist that

will tell you how to spend that money wisely. Once you have all the Technology that

you need you might need to have a team within your company that takes care of it.

The results will amaze you.

As we can see the world of IT it’s pretty big and there is a huge amount of

technology to choose from. The results are pretty amazing and the best of it all it will

put us in the international market as a real competitor. As a country as well we need

to invest into having the best technology available at our hands to be important in this

globalized world.

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