Well, my post this week is about Lacrosse, this is a team sport played mainly in north America (United States and Canada). It's a rough sport, since you need physical contact to win the opponent. To play it you need equipment; gloves, helmets (for boys) and a lacrosse stick, which is designed to catch the ball, hold it and then pass it to your partner. The objetive of the game is to score by shooting the ball into the opponent's goal.
This sport dates back to the year 1000, comes from America as I said before, but the original game was different from the current one, it usually lasted 3 days or so, and they played in ceremonies.
This is not a very popular sport, so it doesn't have many exponents, but in America there is a national Lacrosse League, which is the largest men's post collegiate club lacrosse league. Nowdays the 2012 champion is a club called Magerk's.
I personally like it because is one of the few sport I can watch without getting bored, it keeps you busy and alert to all the players' moves. Even though it is a rough sport, it is not dangerous at all, because it has clear rules to keep the players away to hit each other.
I'm not part of a lacrosse team and I've never been, but there was a lacrosse team in my high school and I really enjoyed watching the games, and cheering for our school team!! I would've love to play it but i suck at any kind of sports so they would've kicked me out of the team haha.
jueves, 25 de octubre de 2012
jueves, 18 de octubre de 2012
This news is about environmental issues. How current laws about protection of nature are not working, and how we need something new to innovate and help us to stop destroying our Home.
Ecosystem services are not exactly the first thing that comes up to our minds when we think about saving our planet. Usually we think about Greenpeace and other non profit organizations.
According to economics, people respond to incentives. Activicts don't make profits or create jobs from this organizations. So someone came out with the idea of payment for ecosystem services (PES) that tries to save the world and make money at the same time.
Nevertheless some activicts think that this project is just another way to give more power to the rich corporations. They think that moral values about our nature can't be treated in economics terms, beside the fact that nature can't be priced.
Another problem with this corporations is the fact that, for example the system will pay landowners to plant some kind of seed and, since people respond to incentives, they might plant gennetically improved trees.
The transaction costs of this kind of companies are higher than other ones, so it would be more likely to work in development countries.This issues should be resolved by the government, who is in charge to provide the common welfare and not by the companies who work for their own interests.
The question is, do we have another choice? I mean apparently, old ways to save the world are not working, but is that the only way to make it better? because leaving it all up to the private market could be a very dangerous ans risky way to do it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/18/what-wrong-price-on-nature?INTCMP=SRCH
Ecosystem services are not exactly the first thing that comes up to our minds when we think about saving our planet. Usually we think about Greenpeace and other non profit organizations.
According to economics, people respond to incentives. Activicts don't make profits or create jobs from this organizations. So someone came out with the idea of payment for ecosystem services (PES) that tries to save the world and make money at the same time.
Nevertheless some activicts think that this project is just another way to give more power to the rich corporations. They think that moral values about our nature can't be treated in economics terms, beside the fact that nature can't be priced.
Another problem with this corporations is the fact that, for example the system will pay landowners to plant some kind of seed and, since people respond to incentives, they might plant gennetically improved trees.
The transaction costs of this kind of companies are higher than other ones, so it would be more likely to work in development countries.This issues should be resolved by the government, who is in charge to provide the common welfare and not by the companies who work for their own interests.
The question is, do we have another choice? I mean apparently, old ways to save the world are not working, but is that the only way to make it better? because leaving it all up to the private market could be a very dangerous ans risky way to do it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/18/what-wrong-price-on-nature?INTCMP=SRCH
jueves, 4 de octubre de 2012
If I have to think about one special trip i've made, the first thing that comes up in my mind is my study trip. We were in sophmore year when we took the trip of our lives, we will never forget it.
We all were between 15 and 16 years old, just kids, so excited to travel on our own, to have a good time and make memories that would last forever.
I remember it was in September of 2008, after the hollidays for independence day we all met at the airport to travel to Santiago, we had to sleep there 'cause our flight to Camboriu departed very early that morning.
Once we got there, we had an amazing time. The weather was great, not too cold, not too hot. The beach was just awesome it was nice to swim in a warmer ocean than the pacific.
I remember we were fascinated by every single thing, the landscape, the sea, people speaking Portuguese and us trying to keep up with that and learning new words.
It was one of the best trips of my life, first time i went out of the country without my family, with my friends and classmates so I tried to make the best of it.
We all were between 15 and 16 years old, just kids, so excited to travel on our own, to have a good time and make memories that would last forever.
I remember it was in September of 2008, after the hollidays for independence day we all met at the airport to travel to Santiago, we had to sleep there 'cause our flight to Camboriu departed very early that morning.
Once we got there, we had an amazing time. The weather was great, not too cold, not too hot. The beach was just awesome it was nice to swim in a warmer ocean than the pacific.
I remember we were fascinated by every single thing, the landscape, the sea, people speaking Portuguese and us trying to keep up with that and learning new words.
It was one of the best trips of my life, first time i went out of the country without my family, with my friends and classmates so I tried to make the best of it.
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