Black Friday

The Black Friday is an American tradition that consists in a huge discount in a lot of products, only for a day or a weekend. This day coincide with the day after Thanksgiving Day.

This tradition has extended all over the world. In Spain, the discounts are leading by "El Corte Ingles" and "Media Market", and a lot of people have taken advantage of this.

But there's something that have let me down and it's embarassing. Media Market went up their prices before the Black Friday to save their discounts and lose less money with the discounts. Embarassing.

In my opinion, all the discounts are welcome, but it's a symbol that our society is becoming more american and we're losing our traditions and adopting the american.

Fast food: Healthy or sickly?

Nowadays  there are a lot of  fast food chains: McDonalds, Burger King, KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken),... and, of course,there are a lot of consumers all around the world. Some people, who probably have never seen the documental of "Supersize me", think that this fast food is healthy or not as bad as the other people think.

In this documental, Morgan Spurlock ate during  30 days only food of McDonald. In five days, he increased his weight 4,5kg! He needed 5 months to lost the weight that he had won in that month.

But not all are disadvantatges. The fast food gives you lots of calories and it's a good way to recover energy in few time, And normally it's very cheap (KFC is not as cheap). In McDonalds you can take a menu for moreless 6€.

In fact, fast food it's not as bad as people think unless you eat fast food with moderation. To finish I have tos say that I like fast food, is very economic and it's tasty, but recently I have had bad experiences with fast food. One day, in Barcelona, after having a big lunch in McDonalds, I went with my friends for a walk, and my heart was shouting to stop. I had never felt on this way before. And it was produced by McDonalds food, because of the low-quality meat. I have never eat  in McDonalds as much as that day, and it was two years ago.

TV programmes in Spain

Now, the majority of the TV programmes in Spain are Americans. Why? It has simple reasons.

The first reason is because we belive that USA is the center of the world. They have more control because they took advantage of us when the first and the Second World War finished, because Europe were destroyed and they gave us money to rebuilt. In that time, we began to depend of the USA.
The second reason is because most of the Spanish series are very bad and seedy. They haven't have a good plots and some of the scenes are pathetic. The few good spanish series have not as exit as the american series, because it's only showed in Spain.

Another fact that make us prefer american programmes is because the "famous programmes" in Spain are junk TV, for example, "Salvame"

Sincerely, I prefer americane series than spanish series or catalan series, but, normally I enjoy it because it's about things that are nearer to me than the matters that appear american series.

Oral Presentation

oral presentation

This first term I did an oral presentation with Pau and Jere. In my opinion it went better than what I expected. Althought it went well, I think that I didn't prepare enough and sometimes I lost the thread of what I was saying. But after all,when we were making the presentation, our objective was to gain the attention of the class, adding short videos and not talking too much  non-stop, and I think that we got it..

Could someday mankind turn into a robot?

Could someday mankind turn into a robot? It has a very simple answer: yes. But the polemic question is: Is really what we want to?

This question is hard to answer, because if we automate a person, that person is not a really person because it has changed genetically: he had a metal arm instead of a bone arm … And his mind is not the same. His instinct of survival disappears and he only accomplishes a series of algorithms.  He loses most of the human qualities, like the happiness or the fear. He will be immortal but we couldn’t consider him a human. In this case, we have to put a limit to not change the specie

A consequence could be that the mankind will disappear because there wouldn't be real humans and we would be another kind of organism and as the theory of evolution said, only the strongest species can survive, and we'll couldn't be as strong as a robot..

Book review

"Tres Sombreros de Copa" is a book written by Miguel Mihura. It's not really a book, it's a play. This play is about a man called Dionisio that he's going to get marry, and the night before, he went to a hotel to stay the night. In that night he met a comedian company and he fell in love with a girl called Paula. At the daybreak, his father in law came angry because Dionisio hadn't answered his phone calls and  they talked about his new life. After their conversation, Dionisio didn't want to get married, he wanted to runaway with Paula, but it was too late.

It's a funny play that I have laughted a lot. I read it in 2 hours moreless but it seemed less because it was enjoyable and entertaining. I recommend it to everybody because it shows the society of the 30s in a satiric way

news

A hospital in Afganistan has been bombed by U.S Force Army. The head of an international medical charity has said that it was not a mistake, and a member of Doctors Without Borders has said that it must be investigated as a war crime.

This hospital, situated in Kunduz, was repeatedly bombarded and hit from the front to the back. This attack has killed 22 persons, including patients and stuff.

Obama has apologized for the attack, and said some investigations showed that the hospital was used to coordinate Taliban activity

This is a serious war crime. In that hospital there were basically civil people, who had been injured, not Talibans. if there were Taliban, they would send soldiers instead of bombed the hospital. They  have chosen the easy way

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/10/18/msf-kunduz-hospital-mistake-charity-head_n_8326826.html 

are all the wars avoidable?

During history there has been a lot of wars that have ended with a huge amount of deaths, for example, the first and the second World War. Most of them could have been avoided, but the question is: are all the wars avoidable? The answer is "no", basically, for two reasons:

First, because the wars are produced because the tensions between countries. Normally, these tensions are difficult to solve, and they are increase until there's a trigger which force to begin the war. One example of that is the beginning of the 1st World War.

Second, there are countries that are interested in begin a war because their armament are greater than the other country and they want something that the other country own. An other reason for begin a war with another country is to force a  third country to take part in the war. For example, the Korea's war, where USA wanted to participate in the war to force URSS to take part too.

In conclusion, not all the wars are avoidable because of the interest of some countries or the accumulated tensions between various countries.

Golden State Warriors

The Golden State Warriors have beaten the record of games won in the beginning of a season. They have won 18 games consecutive, all the games that they have played.

One of the reasons why have won those games is because the MVP, Stephen Curry is averaging over 31 points per game, and the team haven't changed a lot regarding last year,which they won the Finals.

They base their tactics on the outside game, playing with a "small" quintet and moving the ball and going to counterattack. Their games are always very enjoyable to see. They mix the patience to find a good position to shoot and a vertical play.

If they continue playing as they are playing now, they could break the record of 72 games won in the regular season. That record was made by the Bulls when Michael Jordan played on that team and is considered the best team in history

Is humour necessary?

Humour is essential in our lives, all types of humour, even dark humour. It's impossible to imagine a life without humour. So, why is it necessary?

It's important not to make the days monotonous. When you grow old and you try to remember the best days of your life you will remember the days that you had laughed a lot .

 Humour also has a lot of benefits in our physical and mental health. Humour relaxes your muscles, eases anxiety and relieves stress.

A social benefit that humour has is that everybody prefers to be with somebody that makes you laugh than somebody too serious, because it seems that the time passes faster.

But some kind of humour can seem offensive. And it's difficult to put a limit to the humour because it depends on the person. In my point of view, the humour doesn't have limits, even if it's very offensive to somebody or something, because it's only humour, there's no intention to hurt somebody, only to make somebody laugh , and we have to respect it.

There's a hell and a heaven inside all of us

Everybody has a good and a dark side, it’s in our nature and it’s impossible to change it. These sides are very different from each other.

The evil side is a moment or a little period of time that you’re full of rage and you don’t think about the consequences of your actions, and it depends on the people. Oscar Wilde compared these two sides of the people with the heaven and the hell. In this story, this evil side appears when Dorian killed Basil.

The good side is shown in your routine and it’s what we want to show to the people to cause a good impression. This side appears in the story when Dorian is with Mr. Henry.

The duration of these sides depends on the person, specially on his temperament and his environment.

1st term

This first term has been strange. I began better than last year, with better marks and working less. That’s wonderful. But it hasn’t been as good as it seems. In some subjects I have nearly failed because either I didn't study enough or because I didn't pay attention in the exam. Anyway, I have to work harder.

Something strange is that some subjects that at the beginning I considered boring, now I consider interesting, maybe because the teacher is better or because the lesson is more interesting.

But the main reason why I think that it has been a strange term is because at the beginning of this school year I thought that it would be very difficult because everybody said that, but studying less I’m getting the same mark or better. I know that it depends on the subject and the lesson, but it I’m surprised of that.

I hope that this second term will go better, partly because I won’t have the research project and because now I know how I have to organize my time

Piece of News 2

The last Saturday night, Brussels remained on its highest terror alert. The city was under a serious threat of a terrorist attack. The whole city had a huge amount of military and it remained very controlled.

 The malls, the commercial centres and the underground of the city were closed. Even the sports competitions were cancelled to prevent. On Saturday night some zones of the city seemed as a ghost town.

 The Prime Minister said that several terrorists that took part in Paris attacks had lived in Brussels. He also commented that Salah Abdeslam, an important and dangerous terrorist had crossed into Belgium the day after the attacks on Paris


 The contemporary situation in the world is shameful. The people can’t do their life in a peaceful way because of the terrorism. The majority of the European countries have the high alert and every big city is very controlled as never before because they are main objectives to terrorists. I hope this situation could end soon, but it seems that can go for a long time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/22/brussels-lockdown-terror-threat-paris-attacks_n_8621626.html

Joke

News

Have you got a lot of passwords? Are you sick of remember all of them?

For that problem, the company Facephi has spent seven years developing a new technology, using 16 engineers in order to "simplify" our lives. Javier Barranchinas, head of research Facephi tells us that  this  technology is for have a facial recognition in cheap webcams for acces in your accounts.

This operation is very simple: somebody stands in front of a camera, the program FacePhi makes you different photos in microseconds and converts that information into numbers. The program can detect changes that one suffers when you grow up,your hairstyle change ... Of course, you have to use often so you can recognize change.

This program has an error rate of one per million abd it's also able to distinguish whether it is a photo or the real person, and distinguish twins.

Although FacePhi wants to use thid technology to access on your account on social networks or to see if you are able to driving, detecting if you are tired or drunk.

This experiment is a good idea, because normally you have to remember a lot of passwords but, if we are in the habit of don't use the passwords and only use this technology, the day which this technology fall down, anybody could acces to his/her accounts. Somehow, if we use with care, it's very usefull

News

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131016-smart-organs-for-everyone

Robert Langer, professor in biomedical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had the idea of regenerate the tissues, taking plastics and adding cells to it. If you use the right kind of plastics and the right structure, you have the hability to make skin, bone or any organ in the body.

Langer says that there has been a lot of progress. But, the rejection is the most inconvenient. He says that one day, you could have sensors that they could inform if you will have a heart attack or a stroke and go to the hospital before or inform to the hospital for an ambulance

This matter is very controversy, because some people says: Until what we must manipulate the human? I think this experiment it's not as bad as some people  because this can advise you to go to the hospital before you have a heart attack. It's a good research.

News

In the USA, there's a trial that is made with 18 patients with vision problems in the retina. This patients have been treated with stem cells to regenerate tissue of the retina, which is the part of the eye where images are projected. The test was a success: 10 of the 18 patients significantly improved their vision, 7 of the 18 improved slightly or remained stable and only one of them lost vision.

One of these patients is a man of 75 who was blind in one eye and is dedicated to breeding horses. After a month of treatment, improved both the vision returned to ride a horse and was able to detect objects that were in the way. His eye went from having no vision to be between 20-40% vision.

This healing technique was being investigated during a lot of time, but had not done ever until  now because it can be rejected or create tumors. Steven Schwartz, the author of the Work says that if all goes well, in 2020 this technique will be marketed worldwide and it could cure other diseases that now are incurable like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and diabetes.

In my opinion, I don't understand why people are against the stem cells. I think it can be the research of the decade. If they could research more, they maybe could cure cancer

Oral Presentation

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6OXHEP4E7TiRW1HM0pXUFN5R0E/view?usp=sharing

Milwaukee Bucks and Toronto Raptors

These are the two revelations of the East Conference in the NBA

Milwaukee Bucks is a team of the NBA and it's in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They play in the Bradley Center since 1988. The lasts 10 years they were the worst NBA team, but this year, they have change the coach and they're more competitive. They also hired the nº 2 of the last draft, Jabari Parker.

This year they trust to play the playoff. At the moment, they have won 10 games and they have lost 9 games.


Toronto Raptors is a team of the NBA and it's in Toronto, Canada. They play in the Air Canada since 1999. This is the only Canadian team in the NBA. They only have played 6 times the playoffs since 1995.

This year, at the moment, are the best team in the East Conference, winning 14 games and losing 4 games

My favourite historic player

Larry bird was born in west Baden, Indiana in the year 1956. His family was poor, so he worked very hard toAfter the high school, he worked as a builder and street sweeper during a couple of years. After that, he went three years in the University of Indiana State. He left the university because he wanted to play in the NBA.

He played in the Boston Celtics during fourteen years, winning 3 times the Playoffs. He is the best 3 shooter of the history. Now, he lives in Terre Haute, Indiana. He hasn’t got married and he hasn’t got any children. He retired at 1992.

I like this player because he played with intelligence and he's a legend.