The year of Bicentenary

On September 18, 2010 Chile celebrated its 200 years of republican life. This date is a symbolic milestone in our history because it was the beginning of the process that would lead us to be an independent nation. Chile's Bicentennial is an important date, because we can celebrate who we are as a nation and what we have achieved in these two hundred years. Also is a crucial moment to reflect on what we did right and what must change and improve in the coming years.
Despite all the important and beautiful it is celebrating 200 years of independence of our country, this year there have been a lot of events undoubtedly have marked the history of our country, either positively or negatively. Starting from the earthquake that shook the whole country and the world, one of the largest disasters in the history of our country. The earthquake occurred at 3:34:17, on Saturday February 27, 2010, it reached a magnitude of 8.8. The epicenter was located in the Chilean Sea, opposite the towns of Cobquecura Curanipe and about 150 miles northwest of Concepción and 63 miles southwest of Cauquenes, and 47.4 miles beneath the earth's crust. The areas most affected by the earthquake were the Chilean regions of Valparaíso, Metropolitana de Santiago, O'Higgins, Maule, Bío Bío and La Araucanía, who accumulate more than 13 million people, about 80% of the population. As a result of the earthquake, the same happened on February 27 a strong tsunami that struck our coast, destroying several villages. This disaster certainly marked the history of our country, because apart from being regarded as the second strongest in the country's history and one of the five strongest recorded by mankind, the number of people who lost their property or more important even their own lives is a fact that undoubtedly will not forget in a long time and marked in 2010.
However, not everything was bad in 2010, because this year a situation that seemed to be another tragedy became one of the positive things this year, as was the successful rescue of 33 miners who were trapped in the mine under earth. This situation thanks to the efforts of many people and hope and strength of families and the miners themselves, had a happy ending and could contribute to the pretty face of this year's bicentennial.
From this analysis and to end is important to remember that the bicentenary offers us a unique opportunity to be proud of who we are, and dream of the country we want to build for future generations as well as being a time of celebration, togetherness, reflection and projection into the future and despite all adverse events that occurred, it is important that each of us can help us to have a world and a better country, starting every one of us to build a better future.

THE BIG FISH...

Hi to everyone! Today I will talk about the film That I love, "The Big Fish"
Well, before giving an overview of the film, I will tell you when I saw it, I remember it was just last summer. Many people had recommended me, and one day I decided to download the movie and in this moment I remembered all the people I had recommended me the film.
This movie is truly magical for me, is why give them a short review of it so hopefully they can see it sometime.Edward, the main character spends the day reading the Encyclopedia because it is a child of eight years should be in bed due to supernatural growth. It is set in an article on the big fish in learning that "if the big fish are kept in a fish bowl little will remain small. With more space, the fish can double, triple or quadruple its size. " Ten years later, after become the most popular girl in his city, he realizes that as the big fish to grow, must leave home and explore the world. As she confesses to her new friend Karl the Giant, "Do you think This town is too small for you? To which he responds, "is too small for a man of my ambition. " And then begins a mythical and amazing journey. Many years and countless adventures later, Edward is well known as a storyteller about his colorful and his wanderlust that took him around the world. His mythical Stories range from the charming to the surreal, from epic sagas on giants and werewolves, Korean lounge singers, a witch with a glass eye that can see the future up to a big fish that refuses to being caught. The fabulous stories to anyone who loves Edward is except his son Will, who has also left home, but in this case to escape the long shadow of his father. When Edward ill and his wife Sandra tries to reconcile them, Will embarks
in his own personal journey to separate myth from reality his father's life and accept the great successes and great failures ... This is not the end, look better than yourselves, you will not regret.

Myths and truths about the human brain...

Hi to everyone! Today I will talk about the Doctor Pedro Maldonado’s presentation, and specificly about the “myths and truths about the human brain”.
Well, for starters it is important to mention that the "human brain" is a complex issue, but also wonderfully interesting, because it is the structure of the body that governs all our behavior, including our emotions, for this reason that the human brain is full of myths about which Dr. Pedro Maldonado spoke and clarified in his interesting talk.
Among the myths that Dr. Maldonado said is the "Size and shape of the brain", this issue is very interesting because when compare the human brain with that of other species, are impressive both differences and similarities in the structure and size this structure, for example, the animal that is more like the brain to us humans is the "chimp" and on the opposite side, we find a staggering difference in the convolutions, size, shape, etc., which has an animal as small as squirrels, which have a very small brain, poor convolutions, which realizes the regarding the complexity of functions performed by agencies related to the characteristics of the brain of each species.
Another controversial issue about the brain, is the comparison made of this structure with a computer. Although this myth has been useful in cognitive psychology, neuro sciences research. Cognitive has revealed many important differences between the brains and computers, these differences could be crucial for understand the neural mechanisms of information processing that certainly is much more complex than a computer.
Well finally, it is important to note that the brain is a complex issue and actually engaging, as well as having important for all of us, knowledge of its early development and its functions are essential for understanding many of our behaviors and impressed by how amazing it is the perfection of this structure.

Should we be worried about early puberty?

Hi to everyone! Today I will comment on an article in the online newspaper "The Guardian", the article is named "Should we be worried about aerly puberty?" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/19/worried-about-early-puberty).
The article starts talking about a girl, Hannah, who recently turned 8 years old, and his mother feel shocked because she already shows signs of being in puberty (such as the development of the nipples) ecnuentra which she very early, compared to their situation, unlike what has her daughter, she did not show signs of puberty at an early age.
Along with this case, the paper presents other situations in which demonstrates the acceleration of the onset of puberty in children, especially girls the women, where their first menstrual period, which usually occurs long before now than it was in times past. This is evidenced by speaking of figures, since the author mentions that the average age at onset of puberty is 10.75 years in girls and 11.5 years for males (the first sign for children is the enlargement of the testicles).
Within it an important factor mentioned by the author is currently a tendency to obesity and overweight, which advances the age of puberty, in part because the hormonal changes that start are triggered by the body of a children reach a certain size. "It is very likely that there is a link with the body weight increases, but the data is just beginning to show that," says Hindmarsh. "It makes sense, though. In an era of abundance, a species that always has a great interest in self-preservation tends to reproduce quickly."
Other factors mentioned in the article, are the ratio of the advancement of puberty with the "lack of parental presence, since, according to studies, this situation acts as a signal to the brain of pre-teen girls, triggering the hormonal changes that allow it to reproduce.

The increase in female sex hormones come at a time when your brain is not ready. Children at this age usually are in a stage of childhood where they are in the fantasy game, and changes in the brain that are activated at puberty are all about reality and understand that actions have consequences in the long term . This situation becomes very confusing for young children and as the author relates to the tendency to withdraw and other personality disorders that are directly related to how children cope with this new, accelerated phase, which involves many changes, as it moves from being just a child, to live the series of events and changes which means the transition to puberty.

To end the article talks about recent studies that link early puberty to a greater risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer and heart disease in adulthood. This situation is certainly alarming to us because it increases the rate of those diseases and predisposes to many people because of the advancement of this vital process to be "ill adults".

Dealing with stress...

Hi to everyone! the topic of today is "dealing with stress”.
Well, for starters I will talk about the Meaning of the "stress" concept,the stress "is a Psychological or physical demand out of the usual, causing a state
anxious in the body."
Among the triggers of stress, can be mentioned various stimuli, either internal or external, directly or indirectly determines an alteration in the dynamic equilibrium of the body.
Based on the above, the main causes of stress can be classified in:
-Physiological: These causes are related to disease and injury the body that increase the tension inside the person producing a level stress that it becomes counterproductive to oneself.
-Psychological: relates to emotional and cognitive vulnerability. Life crises by changes: childhood, adolescence, maturity,old age.Conflicting or inadequate interpersonal relationships. Terms frustrating to work or study: excessive demand or competitiveness,monotony,inconsistent standards, career dissatisfaction, etc.
-Social: Social change in which each era brings new challenges face.
-Environmental: environmental pollution, food toxic denatured industrial workplaces with little security or charge electrostatic pathogens, natural disasters, etc.
As stress symptoms the most common are: tightness chest, sweating in the palms, palpitations, difficulty swallowing or breathing, body tremors, cold hands and feet, muscle tension, lack or increased appetite, restlessness, nervousness, anxiety, etc.
In the aftermath of stress we can find some that are very common, and certainly all have felt ever due to some situation, these are fatigue, exhaustion, headaches, tension neck, moodiness and therefore problems in the relationship with others etc.
There are many people in the world who suffer from stress, as it is a serious condition especially common in today, because we live in a world very agitated that predisposes us to be people more stressed and therefore suffer the unpleasant consequences of stress.
In my point view the best way is trying to cope with stress take the time to do different things, not just devote 100% to something if not try to distract doing recreational activities or out of the daily routine.

LEVONORGESTREL

Hi to everyone one more time! in this time I will talk about the LEVONORGESTREL, considering Dr. Carlos Valenzuela's speech.
Well, for starters I will talk about how important was the presentation of Dr. Carlos Valenzuela. In my view this presentation is of great importance to our professional training and for the important data delivered, but it is also important for the reason that we can have an informed view.
Certainly with the Doctor Valenzuela's speech I could understand better his inestigation about the LEVONORGESTREL, as clarified many points and was very educational for explaining how he carried out his work in defense of his hypothesis about the controversial LEVONORGESTREL,also he was very helpful the graphics used statistics to more clearly explain the issue.
The "LEVONORGESTREL" is an emergency contraceptive of very controversial use, known by most people as "day-after pill" and as previously mentioned its use is very controversial, as there are people who consider that is a pill abortive and others not consider an abortive method. From the point of view of Dr. Valenzuela "LEVONORGESTREL" is not an abortive method, because It not affects the implantation of the conceptus in the uterus, and it has effect on the follicle. This drug is used after having sexual relation , seeking to prevent an unwanted pregnancy.
In my point of view, the "abortion" is the termination of pregnancy causing the death of the product of pregnancy, altering the process, whether natural or artificial way, since the embryo has life from my point of view, since the male sperm unites with the female egg (union of gametes). On the other hand an "ectopic pregnancy is a pregnancy complication in which the product of fertilization takes place in different tissues of the uterus, either in the oviducts (more often) in the ovary, cervix or pelvic or abdominal cavity.
As for the terms "Contraceptive" and "Anticontraceptive" I believe that there are two terms that refer to the same, since both are related to prevent conception.
Finally, from my point of view the use of "LEVONORGESTREL" must be highly regulated, because this drug is very useful for extreme cases such as rape, however, must be restraint in its use, the effects and also because controversy has idiológica that the use of this pill has.

What music means in my life...

Hi to everyone one more time! in this time I will talk about what music means in my life.
Well, to start, I will tell you that one of the things I like to do is listening to music, because I always find a song that suits in each moment of my life, besides that listening to music
relax me when I'm stressed, I am happy or I remember past moments. It's nice when I remember some people when I'm listening to music, I really like that.
I listen a variety of musical styles such as indie rock, funk, soul, rock, etc.. I find each of these styles has its charm and that's why I love them. Some of the groups and singers that I like are "Arctic Monkeys", "Incubus", "Death Cab for Cutie", "City and Colour", "Stereophonics", among others. I also like some singers that shaped the history such as "Elvis Presley", which I know because my grandmother is really fan of him, "The Beattles", "The Doors", etc.
I think one of the reasons why I like so much music is because I've been to many concerts since I have 14 years, in addition to I share most of my music with my friends and I grew up
listening to great music thanks to my parents, I hope I do the same with my children because music is something really wonderful.
Well, to finish I show you my page of music
http://www.lastfm.es/user/dulcemente in this page I can listen my favorite
music and download songs of many musical groups, I recomend you that visit
this page and that you can created an account for listen new music, is very
funny :D