Mr. Bean's 25th aniversary

This term we had talked about humor, so I thing it's interesting to talk about this new and also I think its nice because all the othetr news are negative, so is the time to talk about something funny related with humor.

To celebrate his 25th aniversary, the famous british comedy legend Mr Bean made an unexpected return to the streets of London. Sitting in the top of his caracteristic cad he headed to Buckingham Palace to celebrate his 25 years of success in as a comedioant.

The commuters and the tourists that he run into in his funny and extravagant car looked on in surprise as Mr.Bean  (played by Rowan Atkinson) navigated the most famous roads of the city. With his antics, Mr.Bean has enjoyed a lot of fans over 190 territories around the world, and the most important is that even now, 25 years since his first chapter, he still attracting new audience.


Source: www.ondemandnews.com

OPINION:

It has a lot of merit to be a comediant known around the whole world, but it's also more impressive to be that during25 years. The way he celebrated it it's so original and as funny as his films and short films. Doing that, the actor (Rowan Atkinson) had demonstrated his talent because one thing is to be acting infront of a camera and other is be acting in real life. The truth is that he had done it very well and I'm sure all the persones that were there had a lot of fun, so he had accomplished his function one more time.

Two damns bursted in Brazil

The government of Brazil had classificated this scene as en environmental catastrophe. Two damns bursted at an iron ore mine. This had produced an orange sediment that is washing into the ocean all along the coastline. The contamination is not the only negative consequence of this accident, there also had been eleven deads. The brazilian president has fined the mining company with 44.000 pounds, but most of the brazilians think that's not enough and protested in their fishing

Eleven people died in the disaster earlier this month. The Brazilian President has fined the mining company more than 44,000 pounds, but some believe that doesn't go far enough and proteste d in fishing boats. This company, called Samarco, has set up berriers in ordar to contain the mud flow ahd has also been digging canals during a week to guide the sediment out to sea. The mining company saaid that the mud is not toxic, but biologists and other enviromental experts had done their own inspections and disagree.

Source: www.ondemandnews.com

OPINION:
It is an accident, and accident can happen, but not in this cases, not when we are talking about toxics and contamination of water. This is a grat disaster for Brazil, but the people who life nearby is even more affected.  I think that punish the company is not the solution, the solution would be an enhanced supervision of all those kind of companies that can trigger a chain of disasters.

Turkish aircraft shoot down a russian plane

Vladimir Putin, the russian president, said that the loss of the plane is a stab in the back by accomplices of terrorists. There is a footage that shows russian military helicopters looking for the pilot of a downed jet near syrian border. The turkish military officials and the russian president Vladimir Putin have verified that the russian warplane was shot down and it was not an accident.

Turkmen commander said that the jet was warned a lot of times before being shooted, and the reason of the shoot was that the airplane was violating their airspace.

The crew reportedly ejected from the plane before it crashed into the mountains of the north of Latakia. Putin confirmed that the plane was shot down over syrian territory by a missile from a turkish aircraft. Putin also said that the pilots and the planes weren't threatening Turkey and were only there to accomplish their duty of fight Islamic State.

OPINION:
 First of all, it's a bad new because of the death of persons that shouldn't had to die. This will only  get worse the situation with the Islamic State terrorists. Hopefully the president od Russia, Vladimir Putin, had taken the necessary precautions.

The fastest skater ever!

The 24 year old skater called Zak Maytum had done the fastest skatin ever, at 112 kilometres per hour. There's a video on Youtube of him skating at this amazing speed has gone viral on Internet and had reached more than one milion views three days ago after it was uploaded. Obviously this kind of things need to be very controlled and organizated by someoene, in this case Venom Bushings was the overseer behind this insane stunt.
Justin Rouleau from the organisation said Zak Maytum was wearing padding underneath his clothes so the viewer couldn't see it on the video. In order to gain more security he also wore a helmet and a very specific shoes, with a fully customised high-performance skateboard, specially tuned for high-speed riding, so the danger was minimizated.Despite all this protections it is a very dangerous stunt and it shows that the skater Zak Maytum is one of the best professionals in the sport of downhill skateboarding because he is so talented and has a lot of experience ) more than ten years).

 Source: www.ondemandnews.com

 

That's just crazy! 

I'm sure doing that it's awesome, but also very dangerous. I won't do that i I could have the opportunity some day, because you need to be an expert and alsoto be a bit (or a lot) crazy, but it's nice to watch it on YouTube. 

Surgery to change appearances

A man from Mississippi who had suffered injuries in his face, that was burned during an attempt of saving a woman he thought was trapped in the blaze, underwent a facial transplant in August. His name is Patrick Hardison and he was a volunteer firefighter. The burns he suffered were of third degree and were covering his entire scalp.

The surgeons spent 26 hours completing the operation. This operation is an historic one because nothing like that had never happened before, there were transplants yet, but not with this ammont of tissue transplanted in Patrik's face. The surgeons reached to remove all the scars and give to Patrik's face a normal appearance.

The operation has been a success, but the patient had waited more than a year on a donor register. It was difficult to find someone with the same blood type and with fair skin and light hair. The donor was a 26-year-old, David Rodebaugh, who died in a cycling accident.

Now Patrik has a new face, but he will have to take immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of his life so his body does not reject the donor's face

OPINION:
I think the majority of the surgery opperations are not necessari and nothing important, but in this case, I think it's a very useful thing and I also think that surgery would have to be only used in this cases.
The fact of have someone else's face has to be so weird, I don't thing if he will get used to it some day.
I also think that it is a great success for technology and it's nice that this had happened with this man because he was so courageousit's a good thing what happened with that courageous sacrificing his face to protect another person.

source: www.ondemandnews.com

A kinder, gentle philosophi of success

Alain Botton talks about his idea of success.

He thinks that our lives are regularly punctuated.

Now it's easy than never before to make a good living but it has never been that hard to live without stress and free of career anxiety. One of the reasons of that it's that we're living in a world full of snobs, people that only knows a part of you and with that he makes his own visions of who you are. Principally we found this phenomen of snobbery at the job. In our society most of people onoly care about our achievements, so then we care so much about our degrees.

Another idea he explains it's that he thinks that we are no particulary materialistic, because what we want of a material good it's the emotional reward it provides, with the impression that the others will have of us, and it's that what we want, not the materialistic goods.

Another reason that makes, nowadays,be calm harder than before it'senvy. We have envy because nowadays we have equallity. For Alain, the feeling of envy is strengthly linked to the spirit of equality.

OPINION:
Alain's point of view it's quite interesting. I agree specially with the idea that he proposes that says that nowadays it's so hard to live without stress, and in part also it's because of the society in that we life. It's a society full of snobs, and people that think that know you only for your appearances or only knowing a little part of your personality.
We live in a worls that only cares about our achievements and nothing more, and that had caused so many problems in a lot of persons because averyone wants to succeed and be accepted by the others.

http://www.ted.com/playlists/158/graduation_now_what

Plastic surgery

Nowadays the use of Botox had becomed a very common thing, but basically are women the part of the population that uses more surgery to keep their beauty.Most of the times this use of Botox is triggered by an obsession of still young, because most people think persons are most beautiful in their 30's years. There is also another factor that encourages people to use plastic surgery. This factor is the pressure of the society and it affects mostly to women, but men are also affected.

In my opinion, all this stuff is not necessary. I think that's fine people want to look better and have a nice body or a pretty face, but there is no needing to exagerate that desire and become obssessed with it. Appearances have an importance in our society and in the feleeng that our, humans, have about ourselves, that cannot be forgotten. A better appearance aloud people to be more self confident. We usually associate an appearance with a way of living of a person. It's important to have a nice appearance but there are other ways to achieve taht. For example, sport. Doing sport could be the solution instead of a lot of liposuctions, and people who do sport are in good shape and don't need plastic surgery. And it's not all about appearance, it improves the body's health, and I thing health is without any doubt more important that appearance.

Michael Phelps returning to the pool in the 2016 Olympic Games of Rio de Janeiro?

Michael Phelps is the greatest swimmer ever, and also the athlete wich have won more medals in the Olympic Games. He had reterad himself of swimming in 2012 after the Olympic games, but it seems that he had come back to the swimming world and he want to be compiting in rio in this thirty first edition of this global sport event in Rio.

 

It seems he´s comming back,and I`m very exited about that, but he will be 31 year old in this competition. That`s a big issue because normally at this age swimmers are no more as fast as they were in their 20`s, but he is Michael Phelps and I think he can be very comepetitive even being at this "old" age in the swimming world. He started when he was only 15 year old in the Sydney`s 2000 Olympic Games being the youngest Olympic swimmer ever. His participation in Brazil`s 2016 will be Phelp`s fifth Olympic Games. If he is has been the youngest olympic swimmer of all times, why he can`t be the oldest swimmer ever too?

World Solar Challenge

Summary:
The biennial Worlds Solar Challenge starts in Darwin on 18 October and travels across country to Adelaide.
In this competition there will participate different futuristic cars powered by the Sun. The idea of this competition is to promote the research on solar-powered cars with the willing of make those cars become, in the future, a consumer product.

In this race there are several categories: challenger class (for one person cars) and cruiser class (for two seater class). Most teams are from universities but there are also teams from schools, such as Goko hig school in Japan.

Each team trusts his victory on a different factor, there are teams that get more concentrated on the aerodynamics, others on the efficiency of the solar panels. They can do the car as they want but they have to accomplish the condition that their cars are only allowed to store maximum 5k Wh of energy at a time, thus they have to obtain the rest of the energy from the Sun or from the motion of the car.

This year the IBM team will implement on his solar powered car a software that reports his driver all the weather conditions with extreme accuracy and precision. This is combined with cloud motion data from sky cameras and satellite observations and multiple other sophisticated weather prediction models. This new technology can offer forecasts with a 30% more accuracy than conventional ones. That will aloud to know where the clouds are, where they are going, and where the car should go faster in order to chase the Sun.

Opinion: this event goes forward than a simple race, it's not just that, it's a way to try new technologies in the motoring engineering. Any of the ideas the different teams that participate in the race can be applicable to the commercial cars or useful to it's development. Great brands of car's manufacture as Ford invest a lot of resources to find out sustainable ways of make cars run.

 

source: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34528753

How have the roles of women changed in our society in the last 100 years?

I think the role of the women has changed in the last century. During the humankind history, at least in European culture, women had been playing the role of being an object and a complement for the man. I really don't know why this situation of women's submission was so common, I can't find a reason that could make  the persons of the past think this way.

Sometimes I wonder if could had happened the same situation but with men instead of woman, and if it had happened, what would have been the consequences then? In any case it would be a madness to approve it. 

As we can see in the story of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, the main character constantly plays with women that fall in love with him, and the relationship they have has ever Dorian as the one who decides everything. About that, I thing that, perhaps, if there would have been some girl with more personality it could had helped Dorian to realize he was having a bad way of acting and living and he maybe had changed making the end of the story something totally different.

It's humor necessary?

In my opinion humor is absolutely necessary because of two main reasons: humor help you stay phisically and emotionally healthy. Now i will defend those two affirmations with scientific arguments.

First of all, humor improves your emotional health because it helps you keep a positive and optimistic outlook to face difficult situations.The best thing of humor is that, when you are with other persons, in infectious and triggers a chain of laughs. Humor has also an important role in all the societies because it binds people together and as the human being is a social animal all the stuff related with people that makes you more sociable it fundamental.

Humor is also very important for our phisical health in more than one aspect. First of all, laughter relaxes the whole body, which is very benefitial. Besides, laughter boosts the immune system, it decreases stress hormones andincreases immune cells, thus improving your resistance to disease. Laughter also triggers the release of endorphines and protects the hearth by improving the function of blood vessels and increasing your blood flow.

In conclusion, we can say that it's convenient for health to keep a little time in your daily routine for humor. It will improve your quality of life.