Can technology make a better world?

            Knowing that technology is utterly useful and it is a powerful tool at its prime, every single object/tool that can fit in this description can be used for good or bad. I always like to highlight the way social relations went from being good to poor and generical. Why would we ask someone for locations when we have a gps? Or online maps? Why would we meet someone when you can instant message them instead? Secodly, machines are stealing people's jobs, because why would we pay a month salary to someone when we can improve our industries machines to do a human's job?
            On the other hand, everything is not negative. I look forward to think that even with its flaws, it benefits us more than the harm it causes. Briefly, it makes life more easier and confortable, like using internet at home instead of going to the library to do a research, or renewable energies instead of using unrenewable ones which pollute our planet.
             Obviously, it is made to do positive things, but sometimes negative things can happen, but the only one to blame is the owner, the one who gave it usage, not the technology itself.

Informal conversation

                                       Characters: 1.Big Moris/ 2.Lil Mich/ 3. Dj Faron
3 old friends meet at the park...

3. Sup fellas. How ya'll doin'?
1. Doin' great. I'll have a lipo next week, because of my obesity and breathing probs.
2. WOW! Now you'll be able to pass through my house door.
1. Ha-Ha fucker. At least my gf is pleased with me
3. Hey guys! Be cool!
2. Dont worry bout that. It won't last too long.
1. What do you mean?
2. I'm gonna have a penis size enlargement.
3. You kiddin' ain't ya?
2. Nope man, I mean it.
1. My prob is serious business, I can't stand guys who do stuff...
3. That's stupid!
2. Do you guys realize how insecure I feel in the bed game?
1. I can imagine, don'cha Faron?
3. Don't be a dick with'im! Don't make fun of it.
2. Well I'll think about it.
1. Dont try so hard, will ya?

Can technology solve our problems?

Watching Jason Pontin's speech about technology really answered a lot of questions. Why have US been the first country to land in the moon? What happened to the future? How to solve big problems? Etc...

As him, I see JFK's iniciative of sending apollo 10 to the moon to prove that he had better rockets than the soviets a good thing because since then, for some reason we advanced a lot in technology, but as he says, these things won't solve humanity's biggest problems if we don't know how to use them, because most of the time our political system still fails, and some of these biggest problems are not even technological, like famine, which is caused by a bad food distribution.

Sometimes we can't solve them because we can't understand them, so, before trying to find the answer for something, political leaders and public must care to solve the problem, institutions must support the solution, it must really be a technological problem and we must understand it.

Presentation

Link to my presentation about comedy programs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKMwbzC6aUU&feature=youtu.be

Blessings

As my third your say about music, I'm going to analyze Blessings.

Big Sean, Kanye West and Drake reunited themselves to count their blessings and talk about their gratitudes.

The producer used trap beats and a dark/mysterious base for this song, and added a black and white thematic to make it more dramatic.

It belongs to Big Sean's album Dark Sky Paradise.

Big Sean introduces the song talking about friends who left him when he was broke and then came back when he got famous, like he said:

" I've done lost hommies who been with me since Edd, Ed n' Eddy 

Who flip like confetti"

and then finishes his first verse talking about not knowing what he would do without his crew. At his second verse, he talks about his life more specifically, and what he would do to keep his loved ones by his side.

Translated remarkable quotes from this song:

- I give whatever I'm worth, for my hommies who gon' go to hell and back for me, I'mma give 'em heaven on earth or a hell of a check, yeah whichever come first.

Yo doy por lo que valgo, por mis amigos que irian al infierno y volverian por mi, les daré el cielo en la tierra o un cheque de la hostia, si, lo que venga primero

-So every morning I'm up cause I can't let 'em down

Cada mañana estoy levantado porque no les puedo decepcionar

-No mistakes in life ever, it's only lessons

nunca hay errores en la vida, solo lecciones

Newborn found buried alive alongside Los Angeles area walking path

The crying coming from under a block of asphalt sounded like it was from a cat to Angelica Blount. But it turned out to be an abandoned baby that police say was deliberately buried under debris along a Los Angeles area walking path.

Blount was walking in Compton on Friday, when her sister Evangelina McCrary pointed the sound out to her.

"She told me, 'Can you hear the baby crying?'" Blount told. "And I said, 'I don't know; it might be a cat.' And my sister said, 'No, it's a baby crying.'"

They called 911.

Two deputies from the LA Sheriff's Department found the newborn under pieces of asphalt and debris inside a crevice.

Newborn was found under asphalt along popular Compton walking path

She was "cold to the touch" and wrapped in what appeared to be a hospital blanket, the sheriff's office said.

"There's indications that the child was born at a medical facility or at a hospital...because of the blanket," LA Sheriff's Dept. Sgt. Marvin Jaramilla told journalists on Saturday.

Paramedics treated her at the scene before transporting her to the hospital where she's listed in stable condition.

Police say the baby girl was born within the last 36 to 48 hours. She's lucky to be alive.

"We do know that if the child had spent the night there in those conditions the baby wouldn't have survived," Sgt. Jaramilla said. If the parents are found, they will face attempted murder and child endangerment charges.

Los Angeles County has a so-called "Baby Safe Surrender Program" that provides parents the option to hand their baby over at any LA county hospital or fire station, no questions asked.

"I don't know how someone would just dump the baby and throw them in that hole and forget about it," resident Angel Flores told KABC.

-Opinion:

It just don't amaze me. I've seen plenty of parents doing that same stuff. Leaving a baby in a box in the middle of the street, by the side of a river, etc... I don't even know how the child survived. The baby had just lived for 36-48h and was already facing something i've never fought against in my life. I hope LS police department find the responsible parents and do what they deserve.

Vocabulary

Facility: Instalaciones

Dump:Tugurio

Debris:Escombros

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/29/us/los-angeles-county-abandoned-baby-found-under-asphalt/index.html

Why slain Russian pilot deserves to be honored

(CNN)As a military analyst for CNN, I've found the anchors often ask tough questions regarding tactics, battlefield operations, strategy and political maneuvering associated with conflict. But Sunday morning, I was asked: "What is the protocol for the transfer of remains of the Russian pilot whose plane was shot down over Turkey?"

That may be the most difficult question I've ever been asked.

Mark Hertling

Watching an escorted fallen soldier returning home to family and friends is something I have experienced far too often. I keep a box with photos of 257 soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice under my command, and every day those pictures remind me of their service to country and of a life which ended too abruptly. That's why I became emotional commenting on the final flight of Lt. Col. Oleg Peshkov.

No matter your thoughts on Russian, Turkish or U.S. national strategy regarding the civil war in Syria and the fight against the terrorists of ISIS, Peshkov was a simple soldier -- a bomber pilot -- serving his state, and he deserves to be honored.

Russia will want to make Turkey pay (Opinion)

Unfortunately, given the circumstances, there really aren't any protocols. But we've learned Peshkov's body was prepared by an Orthodox priest near where he fell, and then taken on a flight from Hatay, Turkey, near where the body was recovered, to the capital, Ankara. Accompanied by a Russian military attache (who was likely a Russian colonel), he was met by the Russian ambassador to Turkey and the Russian Embassy staff upon landing in Ankara.

The flight will quickly leave Turkey for Russia, and I suspect Peshkov's family will meet him wherever he lands. There will likely be a bevy of media and scores of Russian politicians present. This is certainly not the same protocol afforded the hundreds of Russians soldiers who have fallen in Ukraine, because those are battlefield casualties that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not want publicly honored, or even known, by his fellow citizens.

Peshkov's arrival will certainly generate more anti-Turkish fervor, more Russian nationalism and continued support by Putin of Syria's Assad regime. The level of those emotions will be fueled by the factors associated with not just the shoot-down of the aircraft, but Peshkov's combat death.

Peshkov was the unfortunate pilot of an aircraft that served as the final straw for Turkey's patience. While there had been multiple incursions by Russian aircraft in Turkish airspace, and multiple warnings to desist, this Su-24 bomber would become the example for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to show he was serious about Turkish territorial integrity. The flight and shoot-downhave become the center of a political firestorm.

But it was what happened after the shoot-down that will contribute to complications 

between these two countries.

After successfully bailing out of his damaged aircraft, Peshkov was killed. According to video distributed on social media by a Syrian rebel group, Turkmen freedom fighters shot at the ejected pilots as they were landing on the border between Turkey and Syria. (CNN couldn't immediately confirm the video's claim.)

If the facts back up the video, they committed a war crime in their actions. Firing on an unarmed, parachuting pilot is an unmistakable violation of the law of land warfare.

There have been hundreds of political and military disputes between Russia and Turkey over the years. Some have been casus belli -- justifications for possible war -- while others have contributed to strained relations. The circumstances of Peshkov's death will certainly contribute to tension between Turkey's and Russia's bellicose and mercurial leaders. We'll likely see it played out in public this week in Paris.

But today is a day to separate the warrior from the war. On Sunday, Peshkov will return home to his loved ones and to the Russian motherland. For his family's sake, I hope for a dignified transfer of remains, and for his sake, I pray he rests in peace. Because that is what a fellow soldier does.

How is this not WWIII? Turkeys went crazy blowing up a russian jet, and now they got war with russia. In the other side we see ISIS atacking Paris, which will surely get help from the british and the americans. The russian Pilot got killed unarmed and that violates the law of land warfare. He will be back home at sunday to be buried.

Vocabulary:

Staff:personal

Fellow:compañero

Strained:tenso

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/29/opinions/hertling-russian-pilots-body-transferred/index.html