One of the most terrible disasters of the aviation history

34 years ago, march 27th/77, two planes Boeing 747 , the big 'Jumbo', crashed on the track of 'Los Rodeos' airport (Tenerife Norte nowdays), located in the Canarian islands in Spain.

The planes injured were: flight KLM 4805 that left Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam (Holland) and PanAm 1736 that left JFK airport in New York City. Both planes was bound for Gran Canaria in Spain.

583 people died in the disaster. (All from both planes).

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Free Trade Agreement - all people agree with it?



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During the last week United States Congress and the House of Representatives approved three Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with South Korea, Panama and Colombia. Those agreements are important for those three countries. Probably it will help to grow up the economies. But the agreements will bring real benefits?

All the industries will obtain good results after the signing of this agreement?



Took from: http://tiny.cc/yzn7k



Probably for Panama and South Korea it will work.

But for Colombia?

Colombian Government was proud of the approval of this agreement! But Colombia is prepared to compete with United States economy?



Nowdays Colombian government can say that this agreement is one of the best thing for colombian economy. But its important to start working for better results and wait at least 10 years. Then we can take real conclusions about it.

The answer is on the mind of each citizen.

Here you can read more information about the FTA USA - Colombia http://www.ustr.gov/uscolombiatpa

Steve Jobs' (1955 - 2011)

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
Stanford University commencement, June 2005 (Took of Huffington Post)

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

Here you can read all: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

West?

When a citizen of any country that is located in America or Europe say 'this is west', a question arises. What is West? Where is located? which countries are West?

Ive heard many theories that says, the west start where Europe Start. So maybe it can be in the Ural, and also it start in Pacific Ocean, probably Hawaii.

But All this mentioned region is west? West is a cultural system or an economic system?

Geopolitically west are the countries advanced in technology and in markets nowdays.

But west is a big block?

Ive read during the last days some stuff that say, in East some countries are 'westernized' like Israel, China or Japan.

So West, speaking in terms of geopolitics is not available, only taking into account some characteristics such as economy or politics.

The debate is open.

Picture took from: http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/meRVcye/No+Frills+World+Map

Cold war - Last ten years

When the eighties began the world was in the last part of cold war conflict. After USSR invaded Afghanistan, President Carter (US 39th President), saw that the intention of peace wasnt real.

Ronald Reagan Arrived to US presidency later in 1981 and world attitude changed. But is important to take into account that after Carter's presidency the geopolitics of world changed drastically. 

Since that decade US emered as a world power infront all the countries. Japan and China began to position as powerful countries, but only in economy. 

United States of America showed its military, diplomatic and economic power to all the world. 

Last ten years of cold war showed that global geopolitics had changed and a bipolar world never will emerge again.

*'Both  changes  of  weaponry  and  changes  of  polarity  were  big  ones  with ramifications  that  spread  through  the  system,  yet  they  did  not  transform it. If the system were transformed, international politics would no longer be international  politics,  and  the  past  would  no  longer  serve  as  a  guide  to  the future. We would begin to call international politics by another name, as some  do.  The  terms  “world  politics”  or  “global  politics,”  for  example,  suggest that politics among self-interested states concerned with their security has  been  replaced  by  some  other  kind  of  politics  or  perhaps  by  no  politics  at all'.

The MIT Press Journals. Available in the Link. http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/waltz_kenneth_v25n1.pdf

Took from: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/ronaldreagan

MJ, a singer who has done something for the world

Some weeks ago was Michael Jackson's 53th bithday. He was born in Gary, Indiana.

Many people remember him as a good singer, other people remember him because of his 'scandals'.

But two years after his death, is important to remember him as a person that help many people around the world.

He fought against poverty, famine and many things that happen daily around the world.

So Michael Jackson can be called 'King of pop', but fo rsure he did a change.

Michael Jackson's - Earth Song