Castaway

Can you imagine spending more than a month drifting in a small boat in the South Pacific Ocean? Two sailors from Kiribati were eventually found on an isolated atoll on the southern fringes of the Marshall Islands, 500km (300 miles) from home. Little is known about how they survived but theirs is a story of true resilience.

 

For Bob Cooper, a veteran survival expert from Western Australia, escaping such dire circumstances depends on staying positive and calm, not easy when salvation seems so far away.

"That fight is going on with your logical side saying, 'We need water, warmth, shelter, signals and food.”

Experts agree that while sound planning and a clear mind are key ingredients, luck plays a decisive part too. One over-inquisitive nudge by a passing shark or a freak wave could sink all hope, while a slice of good fortune could make all the difference.

Gabriel, José, Laís, Lina, Lucas, Rodrigo and Otávio

Rock N Roll: ACDC

AC/DC are an Australian hard rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. The Band is normaly classified as hard rock and considered one of the pioneers of heavy metal, along with bands like Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. However, the members always classified the music like rock and roll.

The AC/DC sold more than 150 million albums worldwide, including 71 million only in United States. Back in Black has sold an estimated 49 million units worldwide, making it the highest-selling album by any band and the second-highest-selling album in history, behind Thriller by Michael Jackson. AC/DC ranked fourth on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock" and were named the seventh "Greatest Heavy Metal Band of All Time" by MTV. In 2004, AC/DC were ranked number 72 in the Rolling Stone list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2010, AC/DC were ranked number 23 in the VH1 list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".

The band received a lot of indications for Grammy Award,” The best performance of Hard Rock” for four times, “Blow Up Your Video” in 1989, “The Razors Edge” in 1991, “Moneytalks” in 1992 and “Highway to Hell” in 1994, and “The best performance of rock for one duet or group” in 2009 with “Rock N Roll Train” and any others.

The AC/DC start in rock and roll hall of fame on March 2003. For the ceremony the band play the music, Highway to Hell and You shook me all night long witch the Aerosmith’s singer, Steven Tyler. it´s a long way to the top if wanna rock n roll!!!

Facebook

Facebook is a social network released in February 4, 1994. Was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin (brazilian) and Chris Huges, former students from Havard University. Originally, membership of Facebook was restricted to students of Harvard University. Ir was expanded to the Massachussets Institute of Technology, Boston University, Boston College and all Ivy Leagues Schools whitin two months.

Facebook has more than 500 active users. Facebook's position in the ranking of visitor traffic, climbed up from 60th place to 7th place.

10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT FACEBOOK

1- The original logo of the service was the face of AL PACINO.

2- On average, 200.000 people registered on Facebook all day and stay 55 minutes on the site.

3- An avarage user has 130 friends.

4- Among users, the fatest growing demographic category: women over 55% (900% between 2009 and 2010). the more drops: university students ( down 55% in the same period).

5- Facebook has more than 500 million active users.

6- People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook.

7- There are over 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.

8- More than 25 million items ( links, news, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) are shared each month.

9- People who access Facebook via mobile are two times more active than non-mobile users.

10- On avarage, a Facebook user is connected on avarage 80 pages, groups and events.

Restavecs

A restavec (or restavek; from the French reste avec, "one who stays with") is a child in Haiti who is sent by their parents to work for a host household as a domestic servant because the parents lack the resources required to support the child. Restavek may refer to a child staying with a host family, but usually refers specifically to those who are abused.
But, to understand why Haiti is so poor, we need to know some history facts about this country. In 1492, Cristopher Columbus discovered the island. At the end of the eleventh century almost all of native population had disapeared, enslaved or dead by settlers. In 1697 the western part of the island, where Haiti is located today, was given to France by the Spain. After a slave revolt 1794 the country became the first in the world to abolish slavery, and, in 1804, Haiti became independent. As a way of retaliation, USA and Europe maintain an economic blockade on Haiti for 60 years, and after this, to end the economic blockade, the country accepted to pay an indemnity very big to France. Because all these facts that this country is considered the poorest in America.
So coming back to the Restavecs, in Haiti, parents unable to care for children may send them to live with more affluent families. This is perceived as acceptable because in Haitian culture, it is ubiquitous for housing to be shared among members of an extended family, including distant relatives. (In contrast, the concept of a single nuclear family occupying each household is seen as desirable in other cultures.) Therefore, in Haiti it is acceptable for parents to send children to distant relatives to live, often these relatives are living in more urban areas. The children receive food and housing (and sometimes an education) in exchange for housework. However many restavecs live in poverty, they might not receive proper education and, sometimes, the child could be abused, beaten or raped. The United Nations considers restavec a "modern form of slavery".
Restavecs are mostly young black girls that are around the age of 9 and younger. However, there are still young males that are involved in this system as well. These young girls are born into poverty and they have suffered some type of mental, physical, and sexual abuse. They have no social or political voice, so they can’t determine their futures. A lot of parents send their children to be restavecs thinking that they are going to live a better life, but a lot of times this is not the case. Children who are raised in a poor family or lose their parents become domestic workers in Haiti.
I decide to write about this after I watched a documentary from ESPN "Haiti: o país dos restavec vous", produced by Lúcio de Castro. In this documentary we can see how is the real situation of that country, and what they realy need. They don’t need troops to control a civil war, they need some humanitary help in education, with food, with the population health. A lot of money has been spent with a false war, and this is not what the population need. I recommend everybody to watch the documentary that shows the restavecs and the worldwide symbol of human race shame.

Haiti: o país dos restavecs vous
Parte 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIeu4lUrV0E
Parte 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSp7EwU-zjg&feature=related
Parte 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJlVZu71W04&feature=related
Parte 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMRtEX7qQEg&feature=related
Parte 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJ71hM7z9Y&feature=related

New research of Miguel Nicolelis makes monkeys move and feel virtual arm only with the mind.

The scientist Miguel Nicolelis in his laboratory at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina: a new research made monkeys move a virtual arm using only brain signals.

One more step in the ambitious project “Walk Again”, coordinated by the Brazilian scientist Miguel Nicolelis , who want to create a robot able vest to make a quadriplegic walk again. In a study published online by the magazine Nature, Nicolelis and his team report that the experience made a monkey control a virtual arm using only thought. But the study went further: the monkey got back tactile signals, as if the virtual arm could feel the texture of real objects, a first in the history of science.

The research opens way for in the near future, as they want Nicolelis and his team at Duke University, USA, and Institute of Neuroscience of Natal, in Brazil, a tetraplegic to walk again using a robotic device. Fanatic Palmeiras, the Brazilian scientist's goal is to make a person wearing the vest kick off the opening match of World Cup 2014.

The revolution is in the fact that this time, Nicolelis's team used a brain-machine interface, brain (ICMC), equal to the ICM, but able to send information back to the brain by means of visual, tactile or electrical . It is as if the brain talk to the machine and the machine talk back to the brain.

Ooops!

The adventurous spirit always took care of all human beings, since man placed his feet on the moon, its fixation by adrenaline has been the main fuel for the discovery of new sources of this hormone.

Created by a group of cyclists, the newness in the riding world is now pratice in places where it naturally would not be recommended. But that emotion was recently turned into tragedy.
During the cross country competition at the Albert Falls reserve in South Africa, the cyclist Evan van der Spuy was riding around the track when it was hit by an antelope. The rider who came back Travis Walker and had a camera mounted on the handlebars of your bike caught the impressive scene.
The man who suffered the accident is medicated and well, but that be a lesson to others and not take yourself so seriously practice in wild places as well!
Actions speak louder than words, if it's true...

"Paul is dead"

  The rumors began in 1966, shortly after the release of Revolver, when the Beatles stopped touring due to the difficulty of playing live more complex and unusual arrangements. All because of a motorcycle accident supposedly suffered by Paul McCartney.

The Legend

  According to the legend, Paul has died in a car accident at 5 a.m on a Wednesday, November 9th, 1966. He has been hit by a vehicle while he was driving. The news spread across the world, it became fans' obsession, turned into books, TV specials, websites and films.

  In the music "A Day In The Life" we can see it neatly: "he blew his mind out in a car…he didn’t notice that the lights had changed". Also in "I Am The Walrus": John sings: "I am the walrus", but then, someone says: "No you're not! Say Little Nicola!”, and then to complete, on the White Album, John sings:  "and here's another clue for you all…the walrus was Paul…" (song: Glass Onion)

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – 1967 (cover)

The entire set of elements of this layer would be a kind of funeral (Paul's). Looking at all those people, note the flower arrangements typical of a funeral.

Abbey Road – 1969 (cover)

A car seems to come to Paul. Or, as the British drive on the left hand, it seems that the car has reached Paul and moved on. Paul is the only barefooted Beatle. There is an English custom of being buried in bare feet.

  

  But now you might be wondering: "who is the man who made a concert in Brazil?". William Campbell, musician, almost as talented as Paul and had won a Paul McCartney look-alike contest. The truth is that the boy has never been seen in his town after that.


Are you a big fan? Wanna know more about it? Here you can find: Is Paul really dead?