Music

In this post I want to talk about the importance that music has in our lifes.

 Music is, first of all, an expression of everyone's character and personality, it's a way to understanding our feelings and made it become something we can listen to. Music plays with emotions, with happy or melanconic feelings, music can make you feel exited or serene, among another moods. Music is usefull also to connect a group of persons between them, or make us forget temporally our problems. Sometimes it also helps us to affront this problems and not only to avoid them. Sometime a nice song is the only thing able to make a bad day become bearable.

Well, I think it is a very important part of our lifes, also if we don't realize that and instead of that we consider music a common thing, when in fact is one of the greatest things we have, because it will walk with us all along our lifes.

New ways of leisure time

Nowadays, with the progress of technology, our ways of living have been affected and had suffered a lot of changees. One of them is that now, a lot of people has the  chance to say something and be listened by lots of persons.

The first thinck that appeared was the TV. Now the people, specially the youth and the children dedicate most of their spare time to YouTube or Internet in general isted of TV. This is an important change, because, also if it can same similar, YouTube has only a few things in common with TV. The main difference is that on the Internet people can say what they want, or almost that, because you are the only responsable of yor acts and in the TV programs there is a very strict way of acting and the shows they offer have not the freedom that Internet offers. So that's a positive thing because the persons who offer entretaining and humoristic content will follow their own rules and in consequence their creations will be better and more original. This new kind of entretainment estimulates more the creativity and above everything the factor that makes it an attractive point is that there is a huge diversity of content.

In conclusion, I thinck that the classical ways of entretaining are changing and evolving and everytime there are new possibilities.

Strange sports

In the world there are a lot of sports. Many of them had becomed famous, such as football, swimming, baseball, volleybal, etc. But there are also a lot of unknown and are minority, but between them there are ones that are really originals or weird. Those are sports that don't seem nothing serious, but most of them even have a World Championship, and they also are older than what one imagines.

Those are my top three strange and unknown sports:

In third place there is the sport called "Wife carrying", originated in Finland. This sport needs the participation of a lot of teams of two persons. Those teams are couples and the man has to carry his woman (or girlfriend, because is not required to be legally married) on his back and run through obstacles along the way. The rules are that the team who finishes faster the course wins, but if the man drops his partner, five seconds will be added to their time.

I thinck this sport can seem a bit chauvinist, but it's also is true that the couples have to cooperate and understand each other if they want to win, so it can be interesting and funny.

In second place I put the sport called Cycleball. This sport is a competition between teams of two, played on bicycles with no breaks. The goal of the players is to get the ball into the goal using only their wheels and their heads, they cannot use the hands, exept when they are deffending. 

I's similar to football, and it has to be impractical to have a bike disturbing you, because is difficult to score a goal inly using the wheels instead of your own foots. I tried something similar to that with some friends when I was little and it was so fun, but I thinck that is better have balls and bicycles separated, because they don't combine especially well.

Finnally, the first one is Underwather Hockey, a sport in which two teams compete to manoeuvre a puck across the bottom of a swimming pool into the opposing team's goal moving it with a kind of pusher. Is so similar to hockey, but in this case in very important the apnea, that alouds you to be underwather more time and that gives you an important advantage. I've seen people playing this sport a lot of time in the swimming pool and maybe one day I'll try it, bot only for have fun, bacause I thing that swimming is a better way to use a swimming pool.

 A new discovery of the past has been found by the archaeologists. The discovery was a medieval ship from a Dutch riverbed where this piece of history had lain beneath for half a millennium and no one had noticed it until now.

The ship was discovered by some construction workers during an underwater investigation whilst preparing to excavate the port. The vessel is believed to have been a trading ship, used to sail the Baltic and North Seas. The wreck was Built with metal joints, and is strudier than a lot of other contemporany finds.
They encased the ship, that is so big (20-metre by 8-metre) in a specially constructed metal frame, raising all 40 tons from the water with the help of experienced divers, and the delicate remains will be kept at the Newell and Heritage Centre in a specially designed station keeping it wet at all times.

Source: www.ondemandnews.com

 

Technological conflicts vith Apple

This new is about how technology is affecting our society. With the fact that explains this news we see the real huge power thw technology companies have, that is that big that can deny the FBI requests.

The Apple boss Tim Cook, In an interview on the ABC News with David Muir, has hit back the FBI over the handling of the court order to help unlock the iPhone of San Bernardino killers Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik. 

The Apple chief defended the company’s decision of do not comply with the FBI's order to remove security blocks on the attackers' device, and he did it by comparing the change on software the FBI was ordering to a disease.

“The only way know would be to write a piece of software that we view as a sort of a software equivalent of cancer. We think it is a bad news to write. We would never write it, we have never written it. And that's what is the stake here.

If we knew a way to get the information on the phone, that we haven't already given, if we knew a way to do this, that would not expose hundreds of millions for other people’s issues, we would obviously do it.”
Conflicting polls suggest the American public's divided, but Cook is remaining firm on his position.

Source: www.ondemandnews.com

Amazing Wingsuit competition!

This is a Wingsuit competition called "The Red Bull Aces". At this competition, 40 competitors flew 2.3 kilometres above ground level at speeds of up to 257 kilometres per hour, obviously this sport is only practiced by a very specific and reduced group of people, this sport is not for everyone.

To win the contest, four flyer heats race through a slalom course of 112-foot (34 metres) pylons hanging from helicopters.

The winner of the second edition of this competition was Andy Farrington and he was from America. With the results he got, America defended his title from last year's competition, winning in only a 4/10 of a second margin. 

With speeds of up to 160 miles per hour (257 kph), this sport is certainly both dangerous and exiting!

Playing chess in cold-water. Crazy! (frozen body, and training mind)

If playing chess wouldn't be difficult by itself, why don't make this sport became not only an intellectual proof, but also a phisical one. And you'll be askin why? Let's do a summary of this new and you'll see how crazy it is.

Well,  cold-water chess is a winter pursuit that consists on playing a normal game of chess but with the special thing that the rivals have to be bathing in frozen water. It may look like a crazy thing to do, but it's not that strange knowing that this kind of chess.game is played in Russia. The russians that play this tipology of chess say that it does have its benefits. They say playing in cold water helps you concentrate and lets you stay in the water for longer. He says that is a way of testing your tolerance and stamina.

These players of chess say they got the idea for cold-water chess after reading about winter swimmers who played the game in Soviet times.

 

The World Surf League

 In the surf's Big Wawe competition, that takes place in Mexico, surfers have to ride the biggest wawes they can, some of them are truthly huge. All the surfers participating in this phase of the World Surf League are professionals, but until now the two better ones have been Josh Kerr, an Australian surfer, won the competition, which had scored 24.27, and an american surfer: Greg Long, that finished second with a score of 18.84. 

After the Big Wawe competition Kerr, that waved goodbye to fear, boldly ridingthe ocean, is now leading the classification, but he'll still have to wave off competition, as there are two more events of the tour which will finish at the end of February.

 Source: www.ondemandnews.com

A girl that can't love?

Hi, this term we had talked about love, so I thinck this new is so interesting because is absolutely related with this topic. This new, appart of moving me, because it's a relly big shame the problem that this girl has, make me thinck about love, and asking myself what is the role genetic has in love.

This new it's about a little girl with a rare genetic disorder that makes to the three-year-old girl unable to accept love. Their familiars say that she responds to affection only with aggression.

The doctors say taht she was born without the chromosome 22, and this Syndrome, called Phelan-McDermid Syndrome affects around 130 people in the UK and only 1,500 worldwide, affects speech, mobility and cognitive development.

“There's a lot of research linked with autism that's going on in in the UK and overseas in the US.”

Although trapped in her little body, Melody does show moments of warmth.

“She came over and she sat next to me and I just thought, ‘Have I done something, why do I deserve this?' and she passed me a paper and a pen to draw hrt a picture, it was brilliant, it was the best thing, the best affection I’ve ever had from her.”

Rebecca, the mother of this girla, says every day spent with her daughter is a gift and they've learned how to show love in their own special way. Rebecca's sharing her story to raise awareness, but she's also appealing for help from medical experts, so she can understand more about this rare disease.

Source: www.ondemandnews.com