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divendres, 2 de desembre del 2016

WHAT CAN ALBANIA TEACH US ABOUT TRUST?

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160909-what-can-albania-teach-us-about-trust

During the Kosovo war in 1990, many people had escaped from Kosovo for fear of death and the devastation caused by Serbian military forces, and they settled in refugee camps in Albania where many Albanian people were solidarity with his neighbour country by providing food, clothing and medical services.

The author of the new, Quinn Hargitai, explains that her grandmother host a Kosovar family in her house, but many Albanian families didn't have enough money to host a Kosovar family, however many families indebted and sheltered in their homes. The aurhor says that this desire is called besa, "that means to keep the promise and word of honor."The term besa is a code for the Albanians that it means to be generous and hospitable. If someone needs help, you are to offer him a place to remain them. This concept comes from a set of common laws called Lekë Dukagjini, created during the 15th century to rule the tribes of northern Albania.
Another laws called Kanun, say that before the house belong to the owner, it belongs first to God and the guests. Albanian tradition is known as strong tradition and hosptally, because the Kanun says that  you always have to a free bed if some guest appears you can host them. As well says Quinn Hargitai you aren't to force to follow the tradition of besa, but most Albanian people enjoy receiving guests at home, for them it is a point of pride.

But many aspects of besa have been losing over time, apart from the war of Kosovo, Albania suffered a crisi during the Second World War. It was one of the few European contruies that embraced many Jewish population, and even though the repression that offered the Italian Fascists and the Nazis, the Albanian people refuse to surrender their guests, because there was embarrassed to accomodate people that don't love them.

Recently Albania has again establish the besa to accomodate Iran people, and the country has expressed it's willingness to help Syrian refugees. Apart from these heroic cases, Albania is a small and poor Balkan country, and hardly receives international attention for its exploits. At this moment, the Syrian refugees are being rejected by all European borders, and it seems that many European countries have to learn from Albania and her hospitality although it is a poor country.

I think that Albania it's an hospitalary country, and many countries should take example from Albania, even a poor country with few resources, it tries to help at the most harmed people.









GREAT BARRIER REEF SUFFERED WORST BLEACHING ON RECORD IN 2016, REPORT FINDS

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38127320

During this last year, the higher levels of the water caused one of the worst destruction of corals ever recorded in the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. According to a study a 67% of the coral reefs located at the north of Australia it died. The bleaching coral begins when the water temperature rises during a temperate climate. During the February, March and April, the temperatures rose 1ºC more than usual, and the mortality of coral reefs was because this fact.
This coral bleaching occurs when transform sunlight into food, this leads to the aparence of white coral, which left without its main source of energy, as it becomes prey for other marine organisms such as seashells and starfishes.

Professor Hughes is convinced that the cause of rising sea temperatures it's because of carbon emissions and he warning that climate change could lead to a constant lightening. The most losses have been in the northern part of the island.

One of the arees most affected is around the Lizard island in far north of Queensland where the 90% of the coral reefs died. The Doctor Andrew Hoey affirmed that is very devasting to visit an area from 20 years you have to visit and now you see in bad conditions. On the Lizard island has been insatlled a scientific station that collects information from the coral reefs, and while we are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere the temperatures will rise further and cause the extinction of the coral reefs of the Lizard island.

In the central and southern of Australia where the whitening isn't frequent, there are scientifics that begins to concern that as probably a few years may damage certain areas that currently are in safe. The Australian government has published a plan for sustainability the coral reefs and it promised that investigate the bleaching of the corals. This plan is created to help coral reefs that will more resilient to the climate change in a future and trying to reduce carbon emissions.

I think it's important to safe and conserve this protected area, because eventually the coral reefs are disappearing, but not only affect at corals, affect many other marine species that use the coral reefs  for a source of nutrients, for camouflage, to lay and save eggs and it disappearing the colours and forms of this spectacular coral reefs.





EARTH WARMING TO CLIMATE TIPPING POINT, WARNS STUDY

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38146248

In recent years scientists are telling us that the world is becoming increasingly warmer. They warn that as temperatures are more warmer, the carbon concentrations will increase, and thus released amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, more specifically for each 1ºC will arrive at the atmosphere 55 billion tones of carbon.
These scientists say that most of the reserve of carbon are dissolved in the ground, and while the temperature increases and the terrestrial organisms will become more active and will cause an increase of carbon at the atmosphere, and therefore has been done studies how could decrease the concentrations of carbon from the atmosphere.

For this reason it's important that we are attentive when we hear the latsets news of the climate change, if we can't stop this threat has been estimated that within 20 years in 49 locations around the world, the concentrations of carbon decreases 55 million of tonnes, how more carbon is released from the earth, is causing more warming and the concentrations of carbon in the aire increase. In the carbon cycles, the soil acts as a reservoir where the carbon is stored in a state that doesn't influence directly in the global climate system.

This carbon trapped in the soil, because it is extracted from the atmosphere by vegetable organisms through photosyntesis, and in cold zones, it stored in the soil and minimizes the athmospheric concentrations. In the soils there are microbes, animals that lived under the soils and plant roots that using this carbon to accelerate its growth. if this organisms increase will consume grater amounts of carbon and it's release carbon dioxode a greenhouse gas.

A recent agreements created is The Paris Agreement was signed in December of 2015, where nations agreed to keep global average temperature rise below 2ºC of the permitted levels.

This feedback will exist, and may occur if fulfilling the objectives, but the magnitude of the feedback, and really can cushion these enormous losses if we reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases.

I think it's important to reduce this emissions and take care from as planet, to ensure a better life.



divendres, 11 de novembre del 2016

THIS IS WHY YOU ARE ALWAYS SO HUNGRY WHEN THE WHEATHER STARTS GETTING COLD

http://elitedaily.com/wellness/why-youre-hungry-cold-weather/1682138/

This article was written by Claudia Fisher.

When the cold arrives many people start talking just eating and sleeping, teherfore the others interests leave and get the energy that helps us keeping our body. Also we try to take refuge in places where the sun beams us and always try to stay wrap up with a blanket to avoid having shiver from cold.
But the question that we ask are: Why when the cold approaches we have much hungrier than when we stay at summer?

One study has found that when the winter comes people increased their consumption of animal fat and lactic products. This fact made people feel more comfortable to dinner in a gloomy and cold night of winter, than a hot and humit night of summer. Therefore it investigated that everything depends on the temperature, when the temperature drops people are more hungry than the temperature rises.

The cardiologist of the University of Massachusetts, Ockene said that people consume on average about 86 calories diary during the autumn than in spring. He represents us as a squirrel, when the sun sets sooner we stay biologically forced to found for food and eat more fast. But is during the winter when we spend more energy than the body is used to, so that energy was absorb from the food to keep a comfortable temperature for our body.
During the Christams season isn't usually eaten indulgent meals, is eating meals loaded fat and sugar such as cookies, nougats, cannelloni, turkey and for drinking wine, champaigne, etc...

Another study have studied that the cold and dark days we are more rigid and uncomfortable, because the day is shorter and the sun sets very soon, and for fight with a dark and cold day we encourage to eat hot meals such as a soup or it is also found that most of the people for pass a boring day share this day with snacks such as sweeties.

I think that we should control our food during the winter, because it is the time when people usually gain weight because they eat without moderation is not very healthy food.











dissabte, 5 de novembre del 2016

THE RARE PHENOMENON OF THE "MOONBOW"


This article was posted by Kelly Grovier.

This article explains that an English poet named William Cole, was doing a walk at the city of Norfolk one day in October 1799. Suddenly he was observed a rare phenomenon in the  dark sky. The appearance was so extraordinary that he was photographing the sky. 

Actually this phenomenon is called moonbow, rather a lunar bow, this phenomenon is formed when the atmosphere contains vapors wet, these flowing and the pale moon exhibits its lunar arc.

A final appearance on 18 October 2016, two hundred years after it's possible to observe a phenomenon that has many people never heard and much less has been seen, that it's confirm the observation that had William Cole in October of 1799. This week the social websites have been comenting the photo which was captured on 18 October.

The lunar arc is generated in the same way that the rainbow, but in the overnight, it's happen when the light reflected from the moon instead of shining directly of the sun, is reflected through  the rain or the fog suspending in the dimming atmosphere. His fleeting projection is more delicate than the rainbow, lunar bow doesn't show the full spectrum of colors and it appears colored with a white ice.

This strange occurrence has led many artists and painters to desing canvas and squares with the image of the moonbow.

I think that this new was interesting, because explains this phenomenon that was more than two hundred years that doesn't observed and since has appeared this year it is important to remember, because, because we don't know if we can see once more.




divendres, 28 d’octubre del 2016

PEOPLE WHO ARE AFRAID OF THE DARK AREN'T IMMATURE, THEY ARE IMAGINATIVE

http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/people-afraid-dark-imaginative/1671441/

This new was written by Kaylin Pound.

Each person has their own fears and phobias or nightmares with creepy characters that don't let you to get to sleep at night or you just produced an upset whenever you are forced to delve into the dark, you have to think and believe that you aren't alone.

The fear of the dark is known with nyctophobia it's a reality that is becoming incresingly more frightening, since many people can't get rid of in his life. It is verify that a 40% of the people are afraid to walk at home with the lights off and a 10% of the people don't dare to get out of bed for don't face at his worst fear.

Kaylin explains that she was afraid of the dark up to 24 years, but says that before bedtime she leave the lights turn on of the corridor, becuase still have the feeling of fear of the dark and worry about if there are monsters or oneiric creatures hide at home, because we know that there aren't exist and only can exist in legends or horror movies, but acording to the science to have afraid of the darkness indicate have an amazing imagination, so the people that have a wild imagination involve being afraid of the darkness as you imagine lurking creatures, monsters, shadows and all sorts of strange phenomens that don't exist, but your imagination makes it appear in your dreams and at and when you stay awake.

Acording to a psychologist, Thomas Ollendick children are who have the most creative mind, he says that always kids surprise us with the thoughts and beliefs, because they believe the impossible such that perhaps someone can enter and steal her favorites toys, so their fears stem  from unexpected things, therefore associate at darkness with imaginatives phenomens and this fact are creating a fear into the darkness.

Ancestors discovered that predators attacked during the night, so actually darkness give us a sense of danger, we aren't sure of stay save, at the time when the lights turn off to go to sleep our body create a situation of insecurity, and thus we cling to the idea that afraid of the dark like as a species.

As we mentioned another factor that makes us fear the darknes, for example in a sacry movie the frightening creatures appears when the sun sinks below the clouds and the moon appears, all terrifying scenes are recording at night and during the day rules the calm.

In conclusion I think that it's important to not imagine frightening thoughts when you stay lying at bed. The best remedy is to leave the mind in blank and bunch pleasent thoughts, but without crossing the limit of imaginig strange criatures, and if you believe that you need help, try to solve your crazy imagination.





DOES HUMOR PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN LIFE

Humor is an important physical state that consisting clear people minds with amounts of problems and negative things to have a little minute to disconect of work.

I think that if a person has humor it's an important step to get a positive mind to solve problems or to disconect of the rules that invade your mind. This is the moment when you are being with your friends laughting and telling new experiences or things that you want to share with them.

And the people who don't want to share with others to tell about what they did the previous it's probably that this person will be depressed or alone without nobody who hold them.

In conclusion I think that a person needs humor to lead problems and to clean minds with positive energy and to have good times.

dimecres, 12 d’octubre del 2016

HOW TAKING ADDERALL RECREATIONALLY AFFECTS THOSE WHO REALLY NEED IT

http://elitedaily.com/wellness/taking-adderall-recreationally-affects-really-need/1608347/

This article was writing for Rebecca Clark.

This article it's about a pill called Adderall, also refered to a drug that may have probably dangers to our organism. Is better don't take adderall if you haven't a doctor prescribe, because an abuse of this drug can cause physical and mental problems, and others for example if this drug blends and reacts any other medication that you may be taking.

But people already know that this drug is bad like drinking excessive amounts of alcohol, taking hard drugs or smoking cigarrets is bad for us, but we also do it anyway. But this drug is somewhat different from other drugs that makes it special. Adderall cause effects that help you to concentrate better.

Rebecca says that at the university that she was studying during the midterms and finals, thi drug was becoming the friend of all students, because it helped us to focus helping students for study for longer periods of time, because we all want to get good results.

But people that ingest excessive amounts od Adderall don't know that they are playing with their own mental health have an effects on states such us anxiety or depression. Such us Rebecca that has spent five years taking Zoloft, a medication based on serotonin that helped curb the antidepressant states, caused she for have been taking endless amounts of Adderall during the university, and this drug has improved my mood, and she says that has been fortunate to haven't suffered mental illnesses, which are more deep than suffer anxiety or depression.

All these students who were had been taking the drug they feel proud of themselves for their struggle for not through a mental illness. She says that they are tired of finding a solution and being told that we must to hold on, because there are other people with more serious problems that they and would be grateful and we are exaggerating and we afraid that we will be ostracized and we preffer to keep us out of things. Some of us have bent the past barrier and now we have to focus to the future thanks the family to the understanding and support with the mental healt.

 I think if the peaople continues abusing with Adderall it will be harder to control moods and to receive a medical prescription to repair lives. My friend and I feel mocked with the people that take Adderall, because we can't forget when we took that drug and we would like to avoid it and I don't see how the this people must go through the situations that I had been gone.

I encourage people that will be think before ingest this drug that stopped to consider the negative consequences that can be bring the Adderall.

You choose your live and your decision. Think about it.







dissabte, 1 d’octubre del 2016

10 TIPS TO MAKE YOUR FIRST SOLO TRAVELING EXPERIENCE A HUGE SUCCESS

This article had been writting for Samantha Fryzol

This article shows us what are the things that we consider before to set out on an alone adventure, and so we have to learn some important advices and warnings before departure.

1)DO YOUR RESEARCH

Before departure, you must be sure with the place that you choose, it's important to do a research around that place to make sure that it is a safe place. For example explore the language, the food, the culture, the people that live here and if you like the excursions or places for visiting.
It's important find out the place, because if you don't like the food or if you don't feel identify with the culture and the people it is better not travel there, because nobody is too much qualified for traveling alone.

2)SAVE, SAVE, SAVE

Have saved your money before leaving your country it's an important fact, because think that you will be travel alone and you don't have nobody that can leave his money.
It's important to bring  more money that necessary, because is better to be left over money that lacks money. And also spend the money with necessary things and without wasting it.

3)BREAK UP WITH YOUR COMFORT ZONE

To take an alone trip we can overcome the fear as it a symptoms that frequently appears at adventurers. Therefore you must know live with ourselves. This is the way to plunge into an adventures without fears and something that it are back up to this idea.
For example climb the Mount Everest, go on a safari in Africa, cuddle up with dolphins, tigers or exotic animals and delve into the Amazon rainforest are synonyums of adventure.

4)MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A FORM OF CONTACT

Keep the family informed during the adventure is more important, because they were  be concerned for how you should confront the adventure and what things you find by the road.
Therefore is important to set up a timetable to check in by each day and it is also important to put an alarm, because it's probably to get miss.

5)DON'T BE AFRAID TO TRUST LOCALS, BUT DON'T BE TO NAIVE

Surenly your family warn you from the dangers of a solo traveling, for example, never rely or accept drinks or another substances from strangers and if you stay uncomfortable is better to leave that zone.
But not always must be like that, also it's important make contacts and new friends from all over the world and talk with fellow travelers, it's important to strike up conversations to gain confidence with another people.


6)DO EXCURSIONS THAT WILL IMMERSE YOU IN THE CULTURE OF THE COUNTRY

For visit a country is essencial to sign up with extraordinary excursions  that will be let you to know more the history of that country, also can you discover new exotic flora and fauna and news protected and privated routes that probably haven't seen.

7)DON'T RUIN YOUR TRIP BY CONSTANTLY LOOKING FOR SOUVENIRS

Enjoy your time whithout constantly buy souvenirs for your family, because they will be love you although that you will be buy anything there. It's more important invest the money for another cause.

8)SELFIE STICKS ARE RIDICULOUS, BUT THEY ARE ALSO YOUR BEST FRIEND

One of the things you usually do when you are in a trip is taking photos, some of them absurd and the others at a landscapes or a buildings to remember that trip.


9)EASE YOURSELF IN WITH SOME GROUP TOURS

If you stay nervous and you don't sure to do an alone excursion you can cange and do a guided tour group, so you can feel sure and you can make new friends.

10)DON'T BE AFRAID TO GET LOST

Especially if you get lost during a route think that it's a part of the route, because you never  know where you will go and also it's a way to discover new uknown and magical places that nobody have to visit yet.


If you think that you can beat these ten tips  are you ready for begin an to begin a madcap adventure where there will nobody who can give you advices.

Are you ready for the adventure?
















diumenge, 25 de setembre del 2016

PERSONAL OPINION OF GRADUATION...NOW WHAT?

I agree with the speech of this teacher that the students that working every day at every moment, who strives to get good grades, are the students who can will choose thei future, their future job and where they want to will be studying.

I think that all students are ability to study what they want to be independent. Only students needed one thing: to have grit and put the enthusiastically for solve problems and to overcome your goals. The most important is not the intelligence, because if you don't use the intelligence it ends, is the effort and dedication, so you can will make the best future for your life.

dijous, 22 de setembre del 2016

E-MAIL TO TEACHER MY DREAM

My dear teacher,

Hello my name is Guillem, and this year I'm preparing to leave the high school and begin another state of my life, study.
But now I'm focus to this year, because is the last year in my high school and the finishing of batxilleart. I think this year will be difficult, because teachers are coaching students for selectivity and syllabus are begining to spread more than the last year, so this year will be more difficult for me, but I want to put my best effort for lead my challeges taht will appear in my future.

When this year finished, I will be begining another stage of my life, that I mention the independence, because most of the students that will be graduate in the university, if is it far away from your home, probably you will be set up at student flat or a residence.

I would like to set up at a student flat, probably in Barcelona for make new friends, with no obligations and meet other students that will study the same as me. I have not yet decided that I will be studying in my life, but I would like Biology or Geology, because are the subjects that I am interest in and probably are the subjects less difficult for me.

I wish that my dream will become true.

dissabte, 28 de novembre del 2015

TO FIND ALIENS, WE NEED TO BUILD A GIANT SPACE PARASOL

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151115-to-find-aliens-we-need-to-build-a-giant-space-parasol

Over the last few years, astronomers have discovered thousands of planets outside the Solar System, which leads us to believe that there may be exist many hidden worlds. Nick Siegler, director of NASA, said that more than once they have become a question: Is there life in other planets ?, the probability increase, since there are many planets and it may be that one is a twin of the Earth.
Sara Seager, a scientist that searching for life in other planets, believes the key is to examine the atmospheres of alien worlds.Is discovered a device as a flower called stellar umbrella to help the search for new lives. This umbrella is designed to block the starlight, allowing the telescope to avoid the glare of the planets and reveal signs of extra terrestrial life. This umbrella it is 10 billion times brighter than a planet the size of Earth.They want to study the gases and chemicals from other planets to see their composition and whether it could breathe these gases, because you can not see with sight the planet, for fault brightness of light.
Astronomers have already smelled some planets, because when a planet passes in front of a star, the starlight penetrates the gaseous layer enveloping the planet. The molecules in the atmosphere absorb specific wavelengths of light, depending the chemical. By measuring which wavelengths are absorbed, astronomers can identify the gases.
If all goes well the NASA wants to throw in 2026 the first stellar umbrella and also a space telescope equipped with a chronograph that blocks starlight from inside the telescope, while it is now focused on finding Earth's twin.
This article and all whose theme the future are very interesting because they explain anecdotes about the future, as this article who want to build a stellar umbrella to identify signs of alien life on other planets.




EARTHQUAKES

During the last two months of October and November there have been many earthquakes, that her intensity  are between 1 or 2 in the Richter scale in a few kilometers from the coast of Roses and Sant Pere Pescador, are the populations where it felt the earth tremor.
The earthquake with the higher intensity was happened in the early morning Thursday 29th of October, for set at 01:37am, that registered 4'3 degrees in the Ritcher scale. That early Thursday, there was many calls in 112 and many of people they woke up because of the earthquake tremor,some inhabitants of these villages close to the coast had enough shocks and even this phenomenon  fell some objects like frames and squares hanging on the wall, the cupboards where there were glasses and plates shivered, and many objects moved and embeded into the walls.
Seismographs not rule out that another earthquake happens this intensity because after this earthquake have been picked up many aftershocks.


dimecres, 25 de novembre del 2015

THE TINY ISLAND OF SHOOTING STARS

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151119-the-tiny-island-of-shooting-stars

The Channel Island of Sark is a British crown dependency with 600 habitants, it measures only two square miles, but there aren't street lights. In 2011 it unveiled the world's first Dark Sky Island. Sark is located just 25 miles west of France's Normandy coast it has won the award, not only for the sky, but the efforts of this community to preserved their darkness. In 2015 it opened the observatory of Sark, for contemplate the sky stars.People take turns peering heavenward through a simple, sliding roof. From the island, you can see the Pleiades cluster in its full magnificence.
The ban on street lights means that any night-time walks are generally led by torchlight, while the lack of cars means people get around by foot, bicycle or horse-drawn carriage. Along the island’s dirt lanes Sark's array  have wonderful old buildings  from grand 16th century manors to brightly coloured cottages and shops with corrugated iron roofs. Sark have a small island next to him, her name is Little Sark, where that have handrails were built by German prisoners of war in 1945 following the island's liberation from Nazi rule, people crossed due to the risk of winds blowing them over the into the sea on the other side.
One of the tradition of Sark is the "Veilles" that have been held for centuries, bringing islanders together on cold nights to share the warmth of a fire while swapping stories and other entertainments.

I think it's an interesting text because it gives us information from one part of the planet, thanks to its inhabitants makes wonderful.I would like to travel to Sark to enter the observatory and contemplate the starry sky.



ARE KILLER AFRICANIZED BEES REALY THAT DANGEROUS?

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151123-are-killer-africanized-bees-really-that-dangerous

In 1956 the scientist Warwik Kerr imported African honeybees to South America with the intention of breeding a more productive strain. Some of them scaped and raised with European bees, resulting a new specie.
In 1985 this honeybees began to spread until Mexico, and San Francisco. The Africanized honeybees acquired the nickname "killer bees" inspiring plenty of fear and many films of bees.
The africanized honeybees is smaller than European bees, for that reason they brings less venom.This venom is no more potent. This bees are more danger because they proceed more quickly, in greater numbers and with more stinging.This explains the agressive reaction that this bees have caused the death of 100 people over the last of 50 years.
Bert Rivera-Marchand an entomologist of Puerto Rico said that the Puerto Rican bees are slower to sting and do so less frequently, Bert he said that only they are defending their hive. Bees show significantly reduced defensive behaviour.
Then Bert with his colleagues demonstrated that the Puerto Rican killer bees behaved almost exactly like European honeybees.
Beekeepers are using local Africanized bees for in their industry and do not report problems with highly defensive behaviour.

In my opinion I think that Kerr was right to import bees from Africa to South America and we have known that other species of bees and how well they have learned things from European bees, and vice versa.








diumenge, 22 de novembre del 2015

THE WOMEN OF THE PICK TOOTH

Once upon a time a sixteen years old girl was living with her mother in a big magic city.
One night the girl called Ysa had been invited at the party of her best friend. It was rainning a lot, and her mother said that she had to take care because there was a street where were living the women of the tooth pick. Ysa was going to the party, when suddenly appeared to her a small blue car. Inside the car was the women of the magic tooth pick. The car stopped and the women went up. She said: Where do you think you are going brat? Come here!! The girl began running, but the women removed the tooth pick out of the mouth and surrounded her with drooling, she caught Ysa and put her in the car.