The Big Winner of the Oscars

This last weekend was celebrated the 83th edition of the Oscars. The British film “The King’s Speech” was the King of the night nominated to twelve academy awards and winning four of them including Best Lead actor (Colin Firth), Best Film, Best Director (Tom Hooper) and best original Screenplay (David Seidler).

Firth plays King George VI, who, to overcome his stutter, is introduced to Lionel Logue, an unorthodox speech therapist played by Geoffrey Rush. The two men become friends as they work together, and after his brother abdicates, the new king relies on Logue to help him make a radio broadcast at the beginning of World War II.

One of the most amazing things of this film is that it has just been in Australia on December 23, 2010 and The United Kingdom on January 7, 2011. This historical film seemed to gain a lot of popularity and amazed with its scenes, characters, script and plot. It seems that they only needed these two places to become the most awarded movie of the night. After them came “Social Network” which has the favorite to get all of its nominations. Although they shined at the Golden Globe, this was not their night.   

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Young Athletes On The Command

Trevor Bayne became the youngest driver to win the Daytona 500. This historic race gives great stories after every single edition. Now we have the youngest winner with just 20 years old. Bayne was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in February 1991. He currently resides in Mooresville, North Carolina.

Bayne has placed a new record not only in NASCAR’s history but in the world of sports. Young athletes breaking amazing records for their age has become into a new tendency in every sport around the world. Nowadays athletes are becoming professional in their respective sport younger and younger. For example, the latest Formula One world Champion Sebastian Vettel is just 23 years old. Other sports such as Soccer, Basketball and Volleyball have tons of records of youngsters of even 16 years old.

These events make us aware of the new tendency of younger champions. This is also why famous brands like Nike or Adidas and also the respective professional teams are searching and developing young athletes. Massive profits for longer time. Just look Lebron James’s Nike story.      

"Kill Switch" Internet Bill against terrorist attacks

A new internet bill has been proposed to give the government control over the internet. This "Kill Switch" bill has brought up because of the recent situation Egypt experienced. The Egyptian government turned off their internet to prevent communications through this media.

This has created a huge debate in the U.S because people don't agree with the fact that the government is going to increase, even more their power and control. But in the other hand this could save millions of life’s and also millions of dollars. If the "Kill Switch" prevents a terrorist attack without a doubt people will feel pleased and protected.

"This is all about control, an attempt to control every aspect of our existence," says Christopher Feudo, a cyber security expert who is chairman of Security Fusion Solutions. "I consider it an attack on our personal right of free speech. Look what recently occurred in Egypt."

How good would it be to include this bill? Could the Cyberspace become into National Asset legislation? I personally think that if this becomes official it is not going to be as easy as in Egypt. Over there they had to deal with a couple internet providers, here there are hundreds of them 

Digital Valentine's Day

Yesterday everyone was excited for the Valentine’s Day. People were wondering what to buy to their love ones, probably some chocolates, candy, clothes or some nice flowers. But what about those people who were miles away from those who love? Well, on this globalized world there are no limits for you to stop sharing your love. It doesn't matter how far someone is there is always a way to reach them. Social media is one of the best ways to reach someone, and especially on this special day.

You can send images, photos or videos to your family and friends. Facebook, Twitter and all of these wonderful sites facilitate a faster conversation with those people that live far away from you. Another great advantage nowadays is Skype. These wonderful programs not only gives you the opportunity to talk with anyone in the world for free, now you can even see the person while you talk to them and even play some games together.

I know it’s hard to live so far from those who you love so much, but social media has made it easier. You now can express yourself without waiting for months for a letter to arrive. A post on a wall, an inbox or a tweet can make the day for your love ones.

Hope you all had a great Valentine’s Day!

Gop Proposes to cut Billions

I'm sure every single person in the United States wants to b entitled to food that isn't toxic, to drink water that isn't poisonous, to breathe air that is breathable, to work on a safe environment and to the money they put into Social Security.The EPA is very important agency for the United State citizenes because it helps all of these things come true. Although the budget cut is going to be about 1 billion from the 10.3 that is currently in the EPA, this will have an impact on their functionality. Looking at several blogs, people are very concerned mainly about the budget cut of the EPA, but there are other 69 bugets that are being cut that although they are not as popular and gigantic as the EPA they will also have a considerable inpact in case of an emergency. Some of these are the Flood control and Costal emergencies (-$30M), Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy   (-$899M), National Institute of Health (-$1B) and the list could go longer. 

Every of this massive cuts will affect the functionality of the country. Does the United States really need to make this risk? There could be alot of after effects from this desicion that would affect every single person.