OUR BRAIN REACTS TO INJUSTICE,,

A European investigation has revealed that human reactions to unfair situations cannot be controlled because they are produced automatically. The reason of these reactions is the increased amygdala’s activity.

According to this research, in this type of situations men seem more aggressive than women.

Moreover, when a person refuses to sharing something with another person, the brain of the last one has some mechanisms which make him react immediately. Furthermore, that person’s reaction is linked with his/her feelings of fairness or unfairness.

That’s the reason why investigators proved this justice sense in 35 players and they considered their brain activity with a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

They made up a game which is aimed at proposing a fixed sum of money from one player to another one. After this, they both have to share that money (as you can see, teams are formed by pairs). The last one can accept this suggestion and pick the money or reject it, in which case neither of them receives anything.

“If the sum of money which has to be distribute is one hundred Swedish crowns and they are divided into two players (50 and 50 crowns to each other) all of them accept this because they consider it fair”, says the study’s lead author and also researcher at the Karolinska Institute in Estocolm (Sweden).

Notwithstanding, if a player suggests he takes 80 crowns and gives to the other player just 20 crowns it will be absolutely considered unfair. This means that, almost in a half of these cases, the player who has to receive money rejects the suggestion, although he knows he will lose 20 crowns.

So, through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experts have discovered that the brain area which is aimed at controlling financial decisions is in the amygdala and not in the prefrontal cortex and the insula, just as some other previous studies suggested. This brain region controls feelings of anger and fear and reacts to injustices as well.

After this, investigators can affirm that tendency to reacting in an aggressive way and penalize the player who suggested an unfair distribution of the money was connected to an increased amygdala activity.

It did not happen the same when tranquilizers were delivered to players because they became antianxiety with just a benzodiazepine. In these situations all the players showed less activity in this brain region although the money was unfairly distributed.

In addition, investigators’ studies prove that when a situation like this happens to a woman their reactions are not registered when tranquilizers have been delivered to them, while men respond in any case in an aggressive way.

Finally, another author of the study points out that “The final result may have ethical implications because the use or abuse of some medicines can clearly affect our daily decisions.

STAY STRONG MURCIA, WE ARE ALL HERE TO HELP YOU!

Last Wednesday, Murcia was shaken by an earthquake which was due to the interaction between two tectonic plates: the Iberian plate and the African plate.

Experts believe that the continuous movement of these plates of the earth’s crust is exactly what turns Peninsula’s southeast into a seismically active zone.

According to the “Instituto Geográfico Nacional” it was a 4.5 magnitude earthquake in Richter’s scale. This earthquake took place about 17:05 hours and then Lorca town (Murcia) started shaking. Unfortunately, this catastrophe had its epicentre in Lorca’s northeast so it was followed by a 5.1 aftershock which was even more destructive.

Yesterday throughout the afternoon and evening there were some more aftershocks, including a 3.9 degrees earthquake. Sources of “Red Sísmica del Instituto Geográfico” affirm that the strongest earthquakes here were registered on southeast Spain at least 500 years ago.

Experts pointed out that the second earthquake was “probably” the main earthquake. It meant that according to scientific terminology the first one (which began at 17:05 pm) could be classified as a premonitory earth temblor. Both eartquakes have also got to Murcia, Albacete, Almería, Jaén, Granada, Málaga and Sevilla, but in a smoothest way.

Natural hazards technician from the Delegation of the Government of Murcia Sofía González has explained that Lorca’s earthquake has caused many deaths and hundreds of injured so far, considering that it released energy similar to energy produced by 2 million Kg of explosives.

For his part, Jaén University geologist Juan Jiménez has pointed out that earthquakes which took place last Wednesday are related to the activity of Alhama’s fault in Murcia. This fault belongs to a great system of faults situated in northeast-southeast, which is extended from Almería to Alicante and it’s known as Trans-Alborán shear zone. Its global movement system is similar to the system developed by San Andres’ fault in California, although the first one has a lower magnitude. Trans-Alborán shear zone makes the southeast Iberian Peninsula segment move progressively to the northeast.

The length and continuity of this fault system is the largest of the Baetic system so, it has become the most propitious system to generating large earthquakes. During all these years many earthquakes have taken place in these zone so they confirm that in Spain south coasts and North Africa there’s a high risk of earthquakes. According to Jiménez, the high destructive effect of last Wednesday earthquakes is due to a simple fact: the hypocentre (depth where the earthquake is situated) is less than 1 Km away, according to the first seismic data

In my opinion, this has been a tragedy! Lives of all those people have changed overnight and that's the worst thing which can happen to anyone's life! I don't know if I could handle all this pain! I truly hope they can get their old lives back, or at least a similar ones, as soon as possible! All my thoughts are with them right now! Let's hope Goverment help them in everything it can! I wish them the best!:)

If you are interested in earthquakes I have pasted into this page a link of “Muy Intesesante” magazine which talks about the largest earthquakes of all the time.

http://www.muyinteresante.es/los-cinco-terremotos-mas-intensos-de-la-historia

HOW WONDERFUL ARE SCIENCES.. ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ARE ABLE TO SHOW US THINGS WE THOUGHT WE WOULD NEVER DISCOVER!

A Spanish and American team of investigators has developed an optical sensor which is based on crystal clear structure of golden nanoparticles and it’s able to detect some infectious proteins in our body before taking the first symptoms.

This innovation would mean a great advance in the early detection of diseases such as the BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), or even in future Alzheimer and Parkinson.

Actually, the key element of this new method is the supercrystal it generates. Supercrystal is able to work as a microscopic antenna which identifies pathogenic molecules.

Scientists explain through their research that the sensor they have made can detect nearly ten prions (infectious proteins with altered secondary structure) per litter of blood. So, we could say that this new discovered crystal would be able to find a needle in a haystack.
Rafael Álvarez, the main scientist of this study explains that after immersing the supercrystal they’ve made with the optical sensor in a plasma sample or centrifuged blood “the sensor, which generates extremely high electric field on crystal’s surface, produces to us in an amplified way the signal which bounces off the prions”.

Thereby, the quantity of infectious proteins which exist in blood can be observed easily.
Nevertheless, the most interesting part of this development is its application. After years of investigation and waiting it has been discovered that illnesses such as Parkinson or Alzheimer have a prion origin. So, as Álvarez points out, early diagnosis systems could be designed to these diseases long before the first symptoms were found/could be found.

Furthermore, investigators affirm that some illnesses with a prion origin, such as the BSE, can be efficiently detected nowadays.

All this work has been developed by Spanish investigators from CSIS in collaboration with American scientists. Lastly, their studies, investigations and discoveries have been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) magazine.

OSAMA BIN LADEN KILLED WITHOUT THE RIGHT OF BEING JUDGED. WORLD, WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU?

USA President Barack Obama announced Osama Bin Laden’s death last Sunday 1st May, the International Worker’s Day. Just few hours later, this piece of news outshined any other happening and everyone in the world was informed about this fact. Since this news came to light both praises and hard criticism have surrounded Bin Laden’s death. I’d like to share my opinion about this topic, but first I’m summarizing the most outstanding facts everyone should be aware of this happening.

Firstly, everyone must know who’s the man I’m talking about. Bin Laden was the Al-Qaeda leader and founder as well. Al-Qaeda is a terrorist organization aimed at committing violent attacks to those who they consider that can be a threat to Islam religion or Islam society, in short, the people they consider possible enemies. Nevertheless, the problem of these attacks is that they don’t only kill possible enemies but also lots of innocent people.

Besides, he was accused of being the mastermind behind the worst terrorist attacks in the USA and Europe. So, he is believed to have ordered the attacks on New York and Washington on 11th September 2001 and a number of others. That’s the reason why Bin Laden was top of the US “most wanted” list until last week because he evaded the forces of the US and its allies for almost a decade.

Now, you’ll probably wonder…and how could the US forces took him after so long? Well, they had already started their search in 2001 but they couldn’t find any clue of his hiding place, so his whereabouts are completely unknown until 2007: the identity of one of Osama’s couriers was discovered four years ago. His area of operation was found two years ago and finally last August US Forces founded his residence in Abbottabad. As a result of this discovery, US forces began their mission, which took many months.

Therefore, Osama Bin Laden was killed by the US forces in Pakistan when they finally found him. He was shot dead in a ground operation after resisting. There were also other victims in this attack: three other men (one of Bin Laden’s sons and two couriers) were killed in the raid and also some women who were used as a shield. After this fire fight US forces took possession of Bin Laden’s body. The Al-Qaeda leader was buried at the sea after a Muslim funeral on board an aircraft carrier. He was buried at the sea to prevent that his burial place could become a shrine. Although many people think that the death body doesn’t belong to Bin Laden, US forces did him some DNA tests to confirm his identity. Bin Laden was 54 years old.

On the other hand, when Obama was informed about this happening he did an emotional speech the night of 1st May. President Obama said that Osama’s death was “the most significant achievement to date in our nation’s effort to defeat Al-Qaeda”. Following, crowds gathered outside the White House (Washington) and Times Square (New York) as well chanting “USA, USA!”. It’s also important to remember that all world leaders welcomed the news of Bin Laden’s death.

Nevertheless, US aren’t in a safe place at all. The media has already informed that Al-Qaeda members may want revenge. So, they have to protect more than ever their inhabitants because no one can predict when this revenge attack will took place so far.

Well, in my opinion Osama Bin Laden deserved a long and painful death. Anyway, I think that US forces and Barack Obama this time didn’t take the appropriate decision. Everyone knows that Bin Laden was a criminal, but as any other criminal he is entitled to be tried and sentenced by the Supreme Court. I think that this act has just caused anger between members of Al-Qaeda, so President and Us Forces have threatened once again the lives of many innocent people. I’m not trying to say that it was completely unfair; I’m just saying that it sounds like they have done it this way just for their own benefit. And now I wonder…What about us? Have they thought about the possibility of another terrorist attack? Maybe sometimes governments should stop thinking about money, promotion and votes and ensure our welfare and above all protect us.

DOCTORS ASSURE THAT SOME FEELINGS CAN BE AS PAINFUL AS PHYSICAL PAIN IS

Investigators of the University of Michigan (US) have revealed to a magazine called “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” (PNAS) that physical pain and intense feelings caused by social rejection can hurt us in the same way. Their investigation proves that the brain regions which respond to painful sensorial experiences are also activated during the intense experiences of social rejection.

To reach this conclusion, Dr. Cross and his colleagues interviewed forty people who had suffered from a break-up in the last six months. All of them confessed that when they were thinking about the breaking-up experience they felt absolutely rejected.

Every participant completed two tasks in the study. One of the tasks was related to their feelings of rejection; the other one was related to the feelings which generate a painful, but tolerable, stimulus (such as when we have our hand in a cup of hot coffee).

Participants carried out all the tasks while they were being subjected to Functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI). Doctors realized that the strong feelings of rejection were able to activate the brain regions which are involved in physical pain feeling. Surprisingly, both painful experiences and social rejection feeling come into operation neurons in the secondary somatosensory cortex and the dorsal posterior insula.

In any case, the final results agree with the popular wisdom, because, as everyone knows, almost all cultures use similar terms to describe experiences of physical pain and experiences of social rejection as well, such as “pain” or “hurt”.

HE THOUGHT HE WAS SUFFERING FROM MIGRAINE, BUT ACTUALLY HE HAD A KINFE STUCK IN HIS BRAIN FOR FOUR YEARS

This is Li Fu’s story. He went to the doctor after complaining of a heavy headache. He used to suffer from headaches frequently, so he thought that it would be a simply chronic migraine. In any case, he was completely wrong. Li Fu didn’t know that he was going to be surprised at all!

Doctors scanned Fu's head while they were treating his case. Unexpectedly, when doctors could finally see the scan results they found out that Li Fu’s pain wasn’t only a chronic illness, but also a 10 centimetres blade trapped in his brain for almost four years. To understand better this unbelievable fact, you should know that it has a simply explanation.

Li Fu, from Yunnan (China) was accidentally stabbed during a robbery which took place in 2006 and unfortunately this blade had stuck deeply in his cranium. Despite receiving medical treatment because of his injuries, doctors didn’t realize about this little trouble. This mistake caused severe headaches on this 37-year-old man’s head but any doctor could diagnose the real reason of this incurable pain until some months ago.

From the robbery’s day headaches and discomfort never deserted Li Fu, so he decided to find a solution to his nightmare once and for all. This was the reason why he visited his doctor some months ago. Fortunately, that day he could finally know the truth about all this trouble. Doctors, after an X-rays inspection discovered the unbelievable reason of Li Fu’s chronic migraines.

Nevertheless, much time had gone by after the robbery, so Li and his family didn’t believe the X-rays result at first. Therefore, he asked for a second professional opinion before giving doctors permission to operate him. The second doctor confirmed other doctor’s suspicions. Following, Li Fu had an operation and doctors finally extracted the knife. The intervention result was really satisfactory. Li stayed in hospital some days and he was completely cured and safe.

Surgeons were really stunned with this case because it was completely different than they are used to operate. To him, it’s a miracle Li Fu is alive after suffering from a stub in a so delicate body part. Furthermore, they still cannot believe that no one realized about the knife after being stuck in his head so much time.

The most surprising thing about Li’s case is that the knife was almost intact when doctors extracted it.

DIOR says...JOHN GALLIANO, YOU'RE FIRED!

Last Thursday 24th Febrary Dior designer John Galliano went for a drink in “La Perle” a bar situated in the city of Paris. There were some people sitting in the table next to him. The man who filmed this video said that the 50-year-old designer was there alone and really drunk. Otherwise, in the video can only be heard some ladies’ voices discussing completely horrified John Galliano’s arguments. At first, everything was alright. It was a common night, in a common place. However, the conversation turned evil when the British designer declared his love to Hitler and started talking to the people who were sitting next to him like this: "People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be f****** gassed." After this, ladies became completely surprised for those anti-Semitic comments. Unfortunately, he didn’t stop right there. When one of the girls said “Have you got any problem?” He also added: "With you. You're ugly." Following, when another lady asked him “Where are you from?” he just answered: “You’re a**hole”.

This trouble happened on Thursday 24th February. However, on Saturday, another woman ledged a complaint for similar behaviour back in October, so it wasn’t the first time the designer said so racist comments.

Consequently, fashion house Dior took steps to this disgusting behaviour. They make it easier and said that their decision would be beneficial to each one. They said that the reason why they fired Galliano on Tuesday was designer John Galliano and the fashion house have different points of view on their job. Many people consider this fact a positive change. John Galliano had been artistic director of Dior’s industry for almost eleven years. So, it was a great opportunity to redefine the fashion house’s style. Galliano had a theatrical style and it wasn’t Dior’s liking recently.

Now, house Dior main intention is create a subtler and refined elegance which better reflects post-economic crisis of the society. Nevertheless, Dior industry cannot reveal the identity of Galliano’s successor yet because negotiations with all the parties involved take time. Even though, rumours say that Riccardo Tisci, who has won praise for his work at Givenchy, could fill John Galliano’s place. Tisci has a special gift and he’s very creative as well. He has the ability to play with colours, especially with black ones. He has done wonderful things so, he probably he would be capable of interpreting Dior's universe. Furthermore, it’s important to remember he has revitalised Givenchy since 2005 with his dark, romantic and slightly melancholic designs.

However, those are just rumours and no one knows for certain who is going to be John Galliano’s predecessor.

Galliano has recently apologized for his improperly behaviour. Nevertheless, apologizes aren’t enough when he has insulted so many people in so many ways. As a proof of this indignation actress Natalie Portman, who should have been dressed with a Galliano’s design inspired in her prize-winner movie “Black Swan”, rejected any association with John Galliano and chose another design label. Finally, she chose a purple dress designed by Rodarte. She’s pregnant but she looked gorgeous with her lovely purple dress.

In my opinion it’s a story with a moral ending, don’t you think? Who could ever imagine that a simple (and completely arrogant) gesture can completely change one person’s life overnight?

COLUMBINE MASSACRE: THE TRAGICAL RESOULT OF BULLYING, VIOLENCE AND GUNS

My biggest wish since last year is become some day a prestigious journalist. I have always been very interested in all the things which happen around the world so I believe this is the most important step to make my dream come true. However, I use to think that I still have a lot of things to learn because I realize that sometimes I don’t have enough knowledge of general culture or essential information. Nevertheless, I already know which type of journalism is the most suitable one for me: INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM. From my point of view, if I could work on it in the future I’m sure I would be the happiest person of the world. My favourite topics to investigate are:

-CRIMES (of any kind): I aaaaalways watch TV programmes about this; especially “CRIMENES IMPERFECTOS” and I also search for documentaries about it on web sites.

-DISEASES: Firstly, I would read and learn all the information about them and then I would begin my work. The disease that maybe I’m more interested in is CANCER, so I wish with all my own to be able some day to record a documentary with young victims or something like this. Then, I would try to earn voluntary donations from families and give this to doctors to help them in their investigations to find a final cure for cancer. I’m also interested in transmission diseases, uncommon diseases, mental diseases, etc.

-THE HARSH FACTS: On the other hand, I would like to do documentaries about the real world we live in. To get this, I would travel to poor countries or unsettled neighbourhoods. I would interview victims of mafia or clandestine groups as well. Besides, I would interview and try to help women who are victims of violence because, sadly, this is a very common fact in our society nowadays. I could also interview immigrants and show to people their culture and their habits, etc.

-CULTURES: One of my other biggest wishes is travel around the world. If I could do it while I’m working it would be wonderful. With my travels to other countries I would learn a lot of new things, such as new habits, food, or believes. I’d love to spend some weeks in each zone to do a great job.

Finally, I have to say that I love Hollywood’s world and all related to this. I hardly know all famous stars names, their movies, all the news about them...I adore all those things! Anyway, I just consider this liking to Hollywood a hobby. I wouldn’t like being a journalist specializing in this topic because I know a lot of things about paparazzi, scandals and all this stuff... and I don’t like it at all! I love to be aware of some things about famous stars world but honestly, I’m not made for this type of job!

Last week, I was watching a really interesting documentary about a massacre which took place in Columbine, specifically in Columbine High School, in 1999. After watching all the report, I was completely terrified about this fact. I couldn’t believe how two teenagers of my age could commit such an appalling crime. Following, I’ll summarize all the important facts as a piece of news.

Dylan Klebold (eighteen years old, right) and Eric Harris (seventeen years old, left) were two teenagers who went to Columbine High School. In 1999, they were already high school seniors.

Eric Harris was originally born in Wichita, Kansas, but he and his family were constantly moving because of his father job: he had a responsible post in the U.S. Air Force. This was the reason why Harris could never make friends and became a lonely and misunderstood child. Even though his mother was a homemaker, she and her husband didn’t worry about their son’s feelings very much.

For his part, Dylan Klebold had always lived in Colorado. His father was a geophysicist and his mother worked for the State of Colorado, administering training programs for the disabled. They were a very common family. During his childhood, Dylan’s best friend was Brooks Brown. However, they distanced themselves when Eric Harris moved to Colorado and knew Dylan Klebold there. Klebold wasn’t a little angel but Harris was a bad company for him.

Since they met they were up to mischief all day long. Brooks’ mother found out there were a lot of complaints in Jefferson Country Sheriff’s office about Harris: he stole computer equipment from a car, he broke Brook’s windscreen with a huge rock because he got angry with him, he was in possession of narcotics...So, she considered Eric Harris a very dangerous guy. Besides, Harris never liked Brooks and he was an aggressive person. Therefore, Brook’s mother was really worried about his son’s life. After finding out all this information, she contacted with Michael Guerra, an investigator of Jefferson Country Sheriff’s office. Guerra, during his investigation, discovered the macabre web site which Eric Harris created some time ago, in 1996. Firstly, he basically wrote jokes and his thoughts about parents, school, friends... but all their writings included insults and death threats. At the end of the year, he started writing in his blog instructions on how to cause mischief and on how to make explosives as well. Then, in 1997, his posts began to show the first signs of Harris anger against society.

When the investigator informed Eric Harris’ parents of this, Harris started attending therapy with a psychologist and did it during a year. Harris’ psychiatrist prescribed him anti-depressant Soloft to relieve his depression, anger and suicidal thoughts. He also suffered from restlessness and lack of concentration so he also took a similar drug for this: Luxox. When the police performed an autopsy of his death body they found out very high level of these drugs in Eric’s system. Now, doctors have discovered that those drugs side effects can be aggressiveness and deep depression.

It’s also important to emphasize the fact that both Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold wrote a diary expressing their feelings and thoughts. Harris talked about his robbery in his diary: he said that he wrote a letter to the owner of the equipment he had stolen offering apologizes. Following, he laughed at this fact saying that there was no regret in his heart.

Some months before the attack, both Eric and Dylan felt they must start their war against society. So, they needed to show their anger towards those they hated. Shortly after this decision, Harris stopped posting information about his evil plain in his web site. Until then, he just talked about the game Doom, as he did in the beginning. Nevertheless, he still dedicated a section on posting his progress in the collection of guns and in the building of bombs (used in the attack) as well. In those days, a friend of them Robyn Anderson (who was already adult) bought a rifle and two shot guns for them (1998). In 1999, they built plenty of improvised explosive devises of various designs and sizes with instructions from the internet. They also modified their guns in order to make them easier to conceal.

Finally, they decided to put their plain into action on Tuesday, 20^th April, in 1999. Their attack took place in Columbine High School, in Columbine (Colorado). Everything began at 11:00 a.m. when Harris and Klebold arrived at Columbine High School in separate cars. From those spots, both of them had excellent views of the cafeteria’s side entrance and each one was covering a main exit of the school. Following, the pair set up a small fire bomb in a field near the school, at 11:14 a.m. They did it to distract the emergency personnel’s attention.

Firstly, when they got to the school again, Eric shot at Rachel Scott and Richard Castaldo, a couple who was sitting on the field. Scott died instantly and Castaldo was critically wounded. After this, they shot to the students who were on the west entrance of the school or were just trying to escape from them. They injured a lot of them and they killed student Mark Taylor as well. Then, the pair threw some of their homemade bombs in the cafeteria, at breakfast time (the busiest time of the day) and following they used their guns to shoot everyone who tried to escape from their attack. At this moment, arts teacher Patti Nelson saw the pair shooting. She thought the pair were just joking or recording a violent video. So, she said “Knock it off!” and then one of them shot her in the shoulder. Otherwise, she was able to run away and she alerted the students. Following, she hided in the library. While she was trying to protect all the students who were hidden in there she called the police.

After calling the police, shooters entered to the library. There they threw another bomb which damaged many people in the room. There were more than 52 students in the library. Harris yelled everyone “Get Up!”, but when nobody stood up Harris said “Well, I’m going to shoot anyway!” They killed ten students and many more became injured. After this, they threw another Molotov Cocktail but it failed to explode. Next, they went to science area and threw a small fire bomb. After leaving science area, they threw two more bombs in the cafeteria. In their way to the cafeteria they saw a teacher trying to escape, so they killed him. He was the only teacher who died in the massacre.

Finally, shooters re-entered to the library and committed suicide: Eric Harris did it with a single shoot in his mouth and Dylan Klebold with a single shoot in his head. They died approximately forty five minutes after the massacre.

Police still keeps up their diaries and all the video tapes they recorded before the massacre. They all became essential information to know the causes of the terrible crime they committed and of their behaviour. In their video tapes they pretended to be serial killers, superheroes who looked for revenge, they were practising their shoots with their new guns...There was also a video recorded approximately thirty minutes before the attack. In this recording the pair was saying goodbye and apologizing to their friends and families. It’s necessary to emphasize that the reasons of this evil action were...

-Bullying: They both suffered from this form of abuse just because they didn’t join to any school group.

-Lack of affection and attention from their parents. If they had listened or worried about them they maybe wouldn’t ever done this attack.

-In the U.S. buy guns is always an easy job. Every adult person (eighteen years old or older) has the right to own one or two guns at least to “protect” his or her life.

-Their aggressive behaviour could be influenced by violent movies or videogames they watched.

-The use of anti-depressant is also a relevant cause of Eric Harris aggressiveness.

In short, this massacre became the worst tragedy in schools. However, I think that it was predictable and, of course, preventable. Sadly, police didn’t act when it was completely necessary. For example, they arrived at the attack when everything was over. Everyone complained about this because police could save some students and teachers from shooters at least.

THE BIGGEST SCANDAL IN THE GOLDEN GLOBES AWARDS HISTORY: RICKY GERVAIS AND HIS HOSTING SKILLS STARED IN THE CEREMONY

The last 17th January were celebrated the 68th Annual Golden Globes Awards ceremony. Ricky Gervais was once more the master of ceremonies of this magic night. From the first moment he promised in the red carpet he would push boundaries to his monologues because he had offended a lot of people with his particular black humour the previous year. However, he didn’t keep his promise. So, this became the second time he hosted the Golden Globes. He humiliated and replied both celebrities and even the 90-year-old organizer of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).

Firstly, he opened the show in a “inapropriated” style, saying “It’s going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking - or as Charlie Sheen (from “Two Men and a Half”) call it, a breakfast”. Charlie Sheen is well-known for his role in this tv-series but hi scandals as hiting his woman or drinking too much are very often on the newspapers. It wasn’t all, he also laughed at Robert Downey’s Jr drug addiction or Bruce Willis age, introducing him as Ashton Kutcher's dad (Kutcher is her ex-wife husban, and he’s nearly 20 years yunger than him). He also talked about antisemism and racism (refering to Mel Gibson), about talent (talking about great stars as Angelina Jolie or Johnny Depp), about the irrational use of photoshop (referring to Sex and The City actresses, whom he consider almost anciants), about celebrities falsety (talking about J.Lo who’s pretending to be a Bronx girl when she’s the most diva of the female celebrities in Hollywood), he called Steven Carrel - who played Gervais’ role in the American version of Gervais’ British Show “The Office” - “ingrate” to decide to leav the show...And surprisingly he “bumped” Philip Berk describing him as an old man uncapable of doing anything on his own, and, of course, everyone considered it too offensive. This fact made the organizers of the ceremony (especially Berk) mad and they put gervais a vet on appearing in a celebration of this magnitude.

Many celebrities, such as two Oscar Winner Tom Hanks or Tim Allen expressed their disagreement and disappointment about Gervais’ jokes. In general, people considered he went too far with his monologue and then with his introductions during the ceremony.

On the other hand, there were also some famous stars, such as Robert de Niro (lifetime achievement winner) or Alec Baldwin who enjoyed the comic’s jokes and even wiped tears in their eyes (tears of happiness).

Critics from newspapers, magazines and TV shows had different opinions about the Golden Globes ceremony. While some of them described Gervais work as rude, inapropriated and completely unforgivable, others consider him the biggest genious of the 21st century. According to them, Ricky Gervais is able to put celebrities in a difficult situation easily, even the most legendary stars. When he talks, stars’ forced smile becomes a poker face and no one of them can escape from his skills. Gervais is even able to get on many other actors nerves, whom seem more worried about keeping their false smile in front of the camera and pretending to enjoy comic’s jokes than thinking about other things, such as the prizes.

It’s important to emphazise the fact that every one in Hollywood is completely feared of that day when they know Ricky Gervais will be there. Gervais is the only one who can show Hollywood’s real side and rake up its past.

For his part, Gervais considered that was his job roast on celebrities. He was just acting, playing his own role and trying to show once and for all that Hollywood is not that idyllic place everyone dreams of. It’s just an idealized where live the most self-interested and untrustworthy human beins of the whole world. Hollywood celebrities use to predend that they have perfect lives and there’s not place for any deffect in their characters or bodies. So, Gervais only tries to show the ugly truth about any of them. At the end of the night, he said: "Everyone took it well and the atmosphere backstage and at the after show was great."

The ceremony was seen by almost 17 million people in the US, which means it beat a record: Gervais get more audience than any other master of ceremonies in any other year.

Here are some examples of his BEST JOKES...

• "It was a big year for 3D movies. Toy Story, Despicable Me, Tron. It seems like everything this year was three-dimensional, except the characters in The Tourist. I already feel bad about that joke. I'm jumping on the bandwagon, because I haven't even seen The Tourist. Who has? I'd like to quash the rumours that the only reason The Tourist was nominated was so that the Hollywood Foreign Press can hang out with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. That is rubbish, that is not the only reason - they also accepted bribes."
• "I Love You Phillip Morris stars Jim Carey and Ewan McGregor - two heterosexual actors pretending to be gay. So, the complete opposite of some famous scientologists. Probably. My lawyers helped me with the wording of that joke."
• "I was sure the Golden Globe for special effects would go to the team that airbrushed [the Sex and the City 2] poster. Girls, we know how old you are. I saw one of you in an episode of Bonanza."
• On Jennifer Lopez - "She's just Jenny from the block. If the block in question is that one on Rodeo Drive between Cartier and Prada."
• On multi-millionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg: "Heather Mills calls him the one that got away."
• While introducing Robert Downey Jr - "Many of you in this room probably know him best from such facilities as the Betty Ford Clinic and Los Angeles County Jail."

THE HOMELESS MAN WITH THE GOLDEN VOICE,,

Ted Williams is a 53-year-old man and until some days ago he was just a homeless living on the cold winter streets. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father named him Ted Williams because he was a fanatic of the all-star baseball player named also like this. Since he was fourteen he collaborated on many radio programms. Nevertheless, Ted began consuming drugs and alcohol and this life style took him on the streets. Otherwise, he never lost his magical voice. He has nine kids: seven girls and two boys. He also is a grandfather. Patricia Kirtley, his ex-wife, raised up alone four daughters and also a baby boy the radioman had with another woman and she treated him as her own son. It has been a hard task because she’s partially blind. She considers Williams a good man, but she knows he’s weak and easily influenced so he went to the wrong way; and when he tried to prevent it it was just too late.

Videographer Doral Chenoweth III met Ted Williams at Huston Street (an Ohio highway), in Columbus. Then, Ted Williams was holding a sign claiming “I have a God given gift of voice. I’m an ex-radio announcer who has fallen on hard times. Please! Any help will be greatfully appreciated. Thank you and God bless you. Happy Holidays!” After seeing this, Chenoweth asked him to prove his talent while he was recording him. This videographer felt special afection for Ted Williams so he wanted to help him to get his bad situation over. Many years ago, Williams had trained in radio so he had some experience in this profession. Chenoweth’s video was produced by Dispatch.com, the company he worked in. Amazingly, the video was seen around the world in only few days. After this, he appeared in every Tv news and many shows sought him to offer a job.

He was just a homeless but overnight he became an Internet sensation. In only 24 hours, Ted Williams had got job offers, a free trip to visit his mom (he hadn't seen her for over twenty years)… and all those things just because of a YouTube video! It’s unbelievable how technology is able to broadcast information in just a few time and also how a simple recording can completely change the life of people as Williams. Nowadays, life has given to Ted Williams a second chance and he deffinitely wants to help financially his ex-wife and family and, for the first time, look after his grandsons.

The first he did when he becames famous was going to courthouse in Columubs, trying to get a capy of his birth certificate. He had been a homeless for four years so, he hadn’t got the I.D. updated and he needed it to move from Ohio. The next day, luckily, he could travel to New York to visit his mother Then, he was interviewed on “Today”. It’s also important to say that his first interview in Tv was in “Dr Phil Show”.

Nowadays, people use to compare him to Susan Boyle’s phenomenon, which also echoed around the world two years ago. Besides, his mom is really proud of him and she has already said: “God has answered my preayers”. These days, Ted has got several job offers and has made numerous appearances since he has been dicovered. Even the famous Hollywood actor Jack Nicholson wants Williams to appear in his movie.

He checked in Origins Recovery Center, in South Texas, for his drug and alcohol adiction. In January 24th he left rehab against medical advice when he hardly had spent two weeks there. He was really protected form the media there, but he was feeling unhappy with his treatment, so he decided to leave. Anyway, Williams informed everyone he wants to recover but with another help, such as an outpatient center. He has a girlfriend and she is already in a rehab center.

Ted lived in hard moments in the streets and there he knew how life works and realize of their failures. He knew perfectly she deserved this sort of punishment. However, after living many years on the worst conditions this was a lesson to him. This was the reason why this second chance was like a miracle to him. This lucky break made him the happiest person of the world and he will always be thankful for all the things live has given him. There are sometimes many reasons to think that life is unfair, but when things like this happen I use to believe that there’s nothing more wonderful than facts like these. In my opinion, Ted Williams is an admirable man and he’s the greatest example of overcoming. I’m happy to hear that life has given him another oportunity because I really think he deserves all the good things which are happening to him. Life use to work with money, but fortunately nobody is able to pay touching scenes like this one.

In a recent interview Ted Williams said: “It’s nice to be famous. It is better to be whole”.

ISABEL COIXET: HOW TO SUCCEED BEING YOURSELF

Isabel Coixet has become the perfect example of excelling nowadays.

In her beginnings she was a journalist but then, she decided to collaborate in advertising commercials. She was brilliant on it and she could make publicity even for the best makes in Spain as IKEA or McDonalds. However, Coixet wasn’t satisfied enough with this, she wanted to face up to new risks and challenges. She set about working in films industry but away from Hollywood. She has made films based in her feelings and her stories. From the first moment, Isabel Coixet knew that it wouldn’t be an easy task and that she would have to work really hard to get a fair recognition. She is a woman, and sometimes is quite difficult to be heard in our society if you’re of the female sex. She was aware of this, so she never gave up in herself. She was good enough to triumph and that’s exactly what she did. Her films are able to touch the deepest human feelings and they talk about well-known topics in people’s lives. She likes to work with novice actors as well as with celebrities who ask willingly to work with her. As a result, she has done magnificent works as: “My Life Without Me”, a dramatic film which talks about real problems (in this case about cancer) but always with a special touch.

Isabel Coixet knows exactly that she’s making a sad film and because of it she tries to turn this drama into a hypnotizing transparency based on hyper-reality. That’s her perfect formula to mix human fears and the strongest feelings. She is not only able to do it; she can do wonderful films tackling infinity of different topics as well. Of course, she does everything on her own way.

We could say she is a genius, but a really discreet genius. Her fragile appearance conceals a woman who believes in herself and who has gift for succeed in all her aims. It seems she feels like telling to the whole world her hidden thoughts through her films.

Otherwise, she is a great fan of Japan and Japanese culture. That’s the reason why her production company is called “Miss Wasabi”.

Isabel Coixet is a fighter woman and never refuses to know other cultures, other languages or new experiences. Perhaps she is the greatest example of the Catalan character.

GOD SAVE THE KING!!

Michael Jackson’s death has caused a lot of rumours. He had been found unconscious in his luxury mansion situated in Bel Air (L.A.) the last Thursday 25th June. Then he was moved at he UCLA medical centre where he was pronounced dead two hours later (exactly at 11.30pm)

Jackson, who had suffered from healthy problems, was staging few comeback concerts in the UK. These concerts had to begin on the 13rd July.
Firstly, concerts had to be performed earlier, but organisers insisted to move the dates because of the complexity of staging the show.

These kinds of concerts seemed to be too much for an unhealthy body of 50 years old. Michael was wishing to do it because these concerts were a way to feel that he could be the old Michael Jackson again.
Here comes the true story about Jackson’s death…

Michael Jackson was preparing his amazing last concerts in UK. He was 50 years old but he felt that he needed to do it. Doctors began to prescribe medicines to Michael when he had suffered the break of one of his vertebras and one of his legs. From that moment Michael was addicted to prescribed medicines. While Michael was practising his show he was overdosing himself to be able to arrive in perfect conditions at the concerts. This was the worst thing because the singer had medicines on his arrangement in every moment. The singer was really addicted to a painkiller called “Oxicodona” and a diary injection of it had been given to him with another painkiller called “Demerol”
Demerol, similar to morphine, has analgesic proprieties and works as a depressor of the Nervous Central System. It is used to relieve pain of medium or high intensity. Demerol belongs to the group of “Methadone”. It causes addiction and abstinence syndrome, so the dose has to be reduced in a gradually form.

The last days before his death Jackson arrived always late to his practises and his mates said that he looked weak and a bit tired. On Thursday, Michael was practising with pain and he was strongly medicated until few hours before his death. Because of his serious condition his personal doctor decided to give him a bigger dose of medicines. It caused his death.

Michael received a dose too big of narcotics the day of his death. The singer stopped breathing some minutes after the injection. His personal doctor was trying to revive him in every way but he didn’t succeed.
Conrad Murray (Jackson’s personal doctor) had been found with the singer when someone called to urgencies asking for help. Maybe Dr. Murray was the only witness.

Michael was completely in cardiac arrest in his mansion. Dr. Murray’s behaviour was really questioned (he disappeared after all without accepting his acts) Jackson’s family was annoyed and frustrated because of the silence of Murray.

The official autopsy of Michael Jackson has been done by the “forenses” team leaded by Dr. Lakshmann. Police found a great quantity of medicines in Dr. Murray’s car. Until nowadays Murray has taken statement twice and finally, he has been doomed with prison. But nobody knows how long it will take his sentence yet. Police are still investigating some people of the singer’s nearest circle.
Also the web “TMZ” (the first mean which informed about singer’s death) told that Police could be looking for another doctor, Dr. Thome Thome, singer’s friend and a possible indirect participation in the facts.

While Michael was in the hospital several hundred people were outside showing their support to the king. They were remembering him with the best way: singing his songs, performing his famous dances…

Singer’s family had been trying for months to take care of Michael but people who surrounded him didn’t let this happen.
Liza Minnelli, a good friend of Michael Jackson said: “It’s a good job we’re celebrating now his memory, because when everyone knows the result of the autopsy all hell’s going to break loose”

But…the biggest question asked was:
“Why wasn’t Michael on the floor instead of being in bed?” A doctor should know that revive someone on the floor has many more possibilities to be effective.


THINGS YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT MICHAEL…

REAL NAME: MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON

BORN: August 29, 1958, Gary, INDIANA, US

DEAD: June 25, 2009, Bel Air, L.A., US

ALSO KNOWN AS: The King of Pop, Wacko Jacko

BIGGEST HITS: I Want You Back, Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough, Thriller, Billie Jean, Bad, Black or White…

OBITUARY: REMARKABLE TALENT.

Jackson began his career as a child in his family group: THE JACKSON 5. Then, he got global fame as a solo artist with famous hits as “Billie Jean” or “Bad”. Thriller (made in 1982) is the biggest selling album of all the time. (65 million copies sold) according to the Guinness Book of World Records. He got 7 UK number ones and he won 13 Grammy Awards as well.

He was arrested in 2003 accused of an abuse of a 14-year-old boy, but finally he was found not guilty. This accusation caused him several problems and from that moment media got on top of him. All this affected very much his artistic career and caused him a big depression.

The star had three children: Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (Prince Michael I), Paris Michael Katherine Jackson (Paris) and Prince Michael II (Blanket).

Michael Jackson was not treated fairly by the media, but even when his world was falling down he never gave up. He fought to show that he was more than a public character and the most important thing: he never stopped his fight for the rights of people and to make the world a better place.

He was The King and his job will be never on vain. As me, millions of people will always have his memory inside their hearts.
GOD BLESS YOU MICHAEL!!

GAGA'S MURDERER DRESS

As all of you should know Lady Gaga is the most eccentric famous star nowadays.

She has a very unusual style and her dresses are famous around the world. She is able to dress everything you can imagine: from fluorescent wigs or large veils in her face to cans of cola tangled in her wigs. She’s definitely unique!
Her high platform shoes and her amazing clothes cause controversy everywhere she goes.
She loves to be considerate so odd because this is the reason why everybody knows her. Fame has given her money, luxury presents, privileges, lots of good and bad criticisms and especially the global recognition.
But few months ago something scared Gaga to dead because of one of her rareness and it’s not a joke! It is as real as life is!

Once, Lady Gaga promised to the TV program “Friday Night” (BBC): "I prefer to die than being seen from my fans without a pair of platform shoes! I will never give up wearing my wigs or my hats”

Maybe after this incident her thoughts were quite changed.
This is what really happened that day…


While Gaga was going to her last concert in London, she appeared in Heathrow’s airport wearing an eye-catching dress consisting of sticky tape strips in black and yellow (as you can see between these lines). As well she was wearing enormous blue shoes designed by Alexander Mc Queen, who died recently.

Her clothes were extremely uncomfortable and those strips were too tight for her. As a result of it, while she was taking a seat in the plane she began to feel some symptoms of an illness called “deep vein thrombosis” (DVT). This illness affects mainly lower part of legs and thigh’s veins. DVT causes clots which block blood flow.


Lady Gaga was saved by the experienced crew, who insisted on persuade the artist to take her clothes off. Gaga needed some help to be able to do it because her dress was really heavy.
What’s more Gaga took very offended when they also ask her to take her blue shoes off. She said that she was wearing them in memory of her friend Alexander.