American Sniper

American Sniper is a film based in a book which name is identical, and is the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S military history, Chris Kyle, and is the author of the book.

This film is about the life of Chris Kyle. He was born in a little town of Texas, and he became attractive in guns when he was little. When he was 30, he decided to go to the SEAL to fight against the terrorism. Before he went to Iraq, he got married. He went to Iraq 4 times, and he became the most lethal sniper in the history of U.S, killing nearly 250 persons.

In this movie, I think the best is the moment when he killed another sniper who was more than a kilometer far. Plus, the beginning of the film is wonderful.

The only thing that I improve is that in some battles you don’t see very well who is shooting, because the action is very fast, but it passes in two or three battles.

At least, I think this film is wonderful and one of the best movies of this 2015, and I suggest to see this film, because the end of it is very impressive.

        The real Chris Kyle                                                                   Chris Kyle  (Bradley Cooper)

The 2nd term

This 2nd term hasn't been as good as the first and I don't know why. Since I returned of Christmas holydays, I'm not the same. I've done most of my homework in the last time, like the lasts 4 years. Doing this, this year I have been doing homework and studying from the 15:00 until 23:30 a few times, and it's not very healthy.

And this lack of hard-working caused to me stress, be sleepy and be lazier because I'm tired all the time. In most of the subjects I mark worse than last term. This is probably because in the first term I worked harder and I passed all the subjects with an average of 8, and this term I've been too relaxed.

I can promise to work harder, do my works and the homework in the same day and attend more in class in regards to the 3rd and the last term, but the question is if I will do it, and when I will do it: after this weekend or after the Holy Week?

All Stars Weekend: Sprite Slam Dunk

The last 14th February, there was the Dunk competition in the NBA. The competitors were Zach Lavine (Minessota Timberwolves), Victor Oladipo (Orlando Magic), Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Bucks) and Mason Plumlee (Brooklyn Nets).

In this competition, the objective is do the most beautiful dunk. The competitors have three attemps to do a dunk, and the judges (there are 5 judges) give a valuation of 6 to 10. There are two rounds, and the two best dunker pass to the final. In the final there are two rounds too.

This year, the final was Lavine against Oladipo, but it wasn't as exciting as the first round, and Lavine won clearly.

These are the 4 dunks of Zach Lavine

All Stars Weekend: Three-point contest

The last 14th February, there was the Dunk competition in the NBA. The competitors were Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors), Klay Thompson (Golden State Warriors), Kyle Korver (Atlanta Hawks), Kyrie Irving (Cleveland Cavaliers), Wesley Matthews (Portland Trail Blazers), J.J Redick (Los Angeles Clippers), James Harden (Houston Rockets) and Marco Belinelli (San Antonio Spurs).

In this competition, the objective is score the greatest number of 3 point shoot in a minute and in 25 attemps. The balls are distributed in 5 cars. The tricolour balls score 2 points, and the other balls 1 point. The last ball of every cart is a tricolour ball, and there's a cart where all the balls are tricolour. The maximum score in this competition is 35 points.
In this competition there's a first round, and a final, in which the top three are classified to the final.

This year, this competition was wonderful. The score minimum to go to the final was 23. This year, the winner was Stephen Curry, scoring 27 points. It was exciting until the end

This the final round of Stephen Curry

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.