Catchy but Trashy

Few days ago, I was at home listening to the radio and I coud not avoid noticing all the trashy songs. Miley Cyrus, Lady GaGa, Ke$ha, Justin Bieber, Jonas Brothers, among others. Though they are catchy, they are still trashy. Lyrics about partying so hard that girls do not know where they are, or that they brush their teeth with Jack plus a kind of techno/pop music does not result well. I know that not all their songs are about having fun at parties, drinking alcohol or having sex. I know that, for example Miley Cyrus has songs about being the best you can be and stuff like that, but COME ON, teenagers prefer to listen to songs about partying hard.
Whenever we ask ourselves, why youth is so messed up, we must remember what these "singers" teach us. Whenever we ask ourselves, why girls get pregnant when they are just 16 years old, let's remember Rihanna's "Rude Boy". Whenever we ask ourselves about violence against women and why they are still treated like things, let's remember Alejandro Fernandez, "Unas Nalgadas", which caused a great controversy by the way, and all the girls in bikini dancing in music videos.
Most of the songs we listen today are bombs; they actually tell us what to do, how to behave, how to live...But that's media, there is not much we can do, we can't really run away. The only thing we can do is to promote better songs (and TALENTED singers), to be more exigent with what we listen, to know what we are actually listening to and to not listen to singers who are always drunk, in jail or taking pictures of themselves naked because they are role models for the little ones and the only thing we get when we buy their discs or go to their concerts is to increase their fame and when this happens the youngest ones always want to imit them and be exactly like the most famous pop singer or rockstar.Moreover they stop thinking by themselves. But, is it right for a 12-year-old girl to take pictures of herself with a wet shirt? Is it right for a 14-year-old boy to smoke? Of course it is not right at ANY AGE. But that is what we promote with 3 minutes of "music".

Another natural disaster; now Chile's turn

There has been around a month since the tragedy in Haiti that let hundreds of thousands of people without even a place to live. Now I noticed from an uncle that another big earthquake hit Chile, a 8.8 in the Ritcher's scale.

It is known that Chile is located in a seismic area, is a matter a fact, the biggest earthquake ever registered was in this same country in 1960 with a scale of 9.5 degrees!

It's obvious that the South American country is more prepared that Haiti economically and politically. Also, in this case we can say that the Chileans were "luckier" because the main hit was 300 kilometers from Santiago, the country's capital. In the case of the Haitians, their capital, Port Principe was almost completely destroyed.

But the important fact here is how most of people is handling this situation. All the world was shocked after watching Haiti's images, now, more than other time, aid from other countries and from the politicians will sure make the best to solve the hospitals saturation problems, among others.

Is definitely not the same to have a natural disaster like this one a month after one of the worst catastrophes in history.

We as humans cannot make anything to the mother nature, only be prepared when it is needed. We contributed to help Haiti, we definitely have to do the same to our brothers from Chile.

Maybe the biggest musical event in Latin America, Viña del Mar, was cancelled because of the earthquake, actually, I was watching this event yesterday, without a doubt, it's a shame that such event has to be canceled but there are more important things to worry about now.

Lack of self-confidence

One of the most recent problems I've personally seen on society is the lack of self-confidence leading to low self-esteem. Some girls, for example, present low or no self-confidence at all because she doesn't like her body. She feels less by seeing models on magazines or television thinking that they have the best bodies, wanting to be super skinny like them lead to horrible disorders like anorexia or bulimia. I consider that as a society we need to remove from magazines, and the fashion designers should stop hireing super anorexic models and start promoting health and nutrition among society. Lack of self-confidence may also lead you to wrong decisions. For example, I love architecture and I finnish college so I am looking for a job, there is this really great opportunity that a company is offering me but I have fear of rejection and fail, so I consider mysef inble to fulfill this job because I don't believe in mysef. Chances are: I will take back the fact that I didn't chose to take the oportunity not being able to do anything about it, wanting a job that I really want, but I consider I'm not that good for it. We have to be able to have self-confidence, just look at your role models, if they can do it you can do it too. Never ever give up on your dreams, even if people tell you you cannot do it just hear don't listen to them. We need to remind us everyday that we are capable to do what we desire and it doesn't affect somebody else. We need to know that all those things that we have and others lack, even if it's a couple pounds of weight, are what makes us unique and special. Remember that nothing's held back, when it comes to fulfilling your dreams, no is not an answer.

''Tell me I'm older, tell me I'm slower, tell me I can no longer fly, I WANT YOU TO'' -Michael Jordan

Increase in the Price of Gas' Cilinders in Mexico

Currently, Mexico is living the Economic Crisis Reccession, which provoques many changes in production, distribution, prices, etc... It affects the whole economy of the country. As a part of the economy there is the prices of products, foods, services, etc. In this new, they are saying that a basic need for mexicans is having a raise in the price. This rise was of like 5-10 cents per kg., appearryly its nothing for us. But if you then calculate how many kg you need, the general price will be higher.

According to what we saw in class, inflation is the causant of this increase in prices. When inflation occurs prices tend to increase due primarily, because there are excedents, I think. Plus these, all is increasing. That's why it is called inflation, everything increases. Costs of productions, materials, distribution costs, etc... so because everything needed to produce increases, the price of the final product has to be increased. In Mexico, we can see that all methods and forms of doing things are more expensive; because of different factors (crisis, etc). This is letting to a general increase of prices-INFLATION-. The thing is that the inflation in Mexico, should not be shown in this basic products. May be the government and enterprises could make some plans and arrangements in order of lowing the prices of this specific products. It can be possible that to compensed inflation, they increase other not so basic products; and those that are basic and vital, do not increase.

I am continue thinking that this whole matter of economy, inflation, crisis... can be solved very easily. Just that the difficult thing is politics. This is happening because of bad political desisions, that affect economic ones. They are based more on the personal interests and benefits than in the country's. They should be working more on desisions that help economy, may be we need to sacrificed money or goods, in order to stable our situation; but it is needed. We have to sacrifice in order to win.!

Another Earthquake, now in Chile!

Disaster in Chile + New government entrance...

This morning the world wake up with terrible news, an earthquake in Chile. This was a sism of 8.8 degrees, the 6th worst in the history of humanity. There are aprroximately 122 deaths, and many damages.

It seems that the story of Haiti is repeating, in many senses, it is the same. Luckly, in this eartquake there are less deaths and damaged people, but this doesn't mean it was nothing. It is a terrible disaster and huge damage to the country in all manners.
The different and new thing is that, currently, Chile ellected his new president-who will take possession on MArch 11, I think. So many questions appear... Will Chile Government will be as the Haiti one, not capable to raise up? Will the inminent change of government and powers, led authorities and Chile to raise up and care with this tragedy? In these next days, we will see how both governments, the currrent and the new one, work; and if they are capable of managing this disaster and situation. Also the political and economical life of Chile, will be prooved. If they can work together for the good of the country, then they will be having a good political situation. Plus, they have to look and manage the economical situation of the country.

I hope that the citizens and the governments, join efforts in order to beat this tragedy! I also hope that the politicians really join and see for the good of people, without mattering any political or economic differences.

We should help them!

"Drugs Problems in the Frontier"

I just read an article in the newspaper about a discussion between USA and Mexico governments, especially en Ciudad Juarez. In it USA blame Mexico for the narcotraffic problem, because the drug is produced here and sent to USA, on the other hand, Mexico blame USA of the narcotrafic problems because the addicts in USA create drug demand, opening a very violent market that begins in Mexico.
  The question is this: When we talk about a forbidden product, ¿Who is guiltier?¿The producer/seller or the costumer? I think both have almost the same responsibility, and I think it is necessary to attack both in order to control the problem and eliminate the illegal product. Instead of blaming each others cooperation should be looked after.

Overpopulation and resources

The capacity for the human in the ecosystem has been exceeded. According to the logic of Overshoot by William Catton: the amount of stored energy from the sun (including fossil fuels) humans use is the equivalent of ten earths' intake of usable solar energy for photosynthesis.

With all the trash and all that stuff that we throw a lot of tons of topsoil is lost, the survival rate would be only one tenth of the one tenth!! And petroleum is one of the most important resources that would mark in history.

Population has been growing a lot even though all these damages and the lack of resources.

People are dependant on resources, and we need them to live. Overpopulation is causing that all these resources disappeared. In petroleum for example, agriculture will be affected.

I think that overpopulation and resources is a theme that is very important nowadays. Resources are not for ever! We need to take care of them, because population is growing and growing. Also I think that we need to find more alternatives that can help s when all resources come to an end.

"Celebrating Our Revolution With Reelection"

Today a friend of mine told me a chocking new... Calderon just delivered a political plan in which he proposes 10 main points, in which he includes the reelection of senators and members of the congress.
This is supposed to be grant more time to politics to deliver better and more effective long term plans; however, this will also give them a lot more of power and influence. This is supposed to be counterarrested by democratic election; in theory, if the nation has complains about a politician, he or she would just not be reelected and end of the problem, however, mexican democratic institutions has proved to have leacks, therefore we cannot be sure this would work.
The good pint of this plan is the reduction of the Deputy Chamber from 500 to 400, reducing coastes and maybe creating a more agile processes.

It is still ironic that this pro reelection plan is delivered on the aniversary of the revolution. Here is the link to a summary of the 10 points and the video of the plan deivery by Calderon.
http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/prensa/?contenido=51465

Abortion is OK in Spain

I was watching on TV (CNN News) that Spain approved a law which abortion was allowed more easier than before.

Spain on Wednesday approved a sweeping new law that eases restrictions on abortion, declaring the practice a woman's right and doing away with the threat of imprisonment, in part of a drive toward liberal policies that has angered conservatives and the Catholic Church.

The new law allows the procedure without restrictions up to 14 weeks and gives 16- and 17-year-olds the right to have abortions without parental consent. The senate's passage of the bill Wednesday gives it final approval.

Something that really scares me is the fact that this types of law are every time more expanded. I have always said that abortion is killing a person, even though is not even born.

The bill brings the country in line with its more secular neighbors in northern Europe is the latest of a series of bold social reforms undertaken by Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who first took office in 2004 and has ruffled feathers among many in the traditionally Catholic country.

There will be happy and unhappy people with this new law, but the ones that will never have a chance to say a word about the situation, are the babies that will be killed, that's for sure.

Haiti Problem of Supplies, caused by bad distribution?

Haiti has lived in the last months a really bad situation due to the earthquake they lived. With this natural disaster many consequences had occurred. Poverty, diseases, conflicts, fights, accidents, and lack of food and supplies are some of the problems.

From these problems, lack of food and supplies its also a problem linked to SUPPLY and DEMAND, and with Economics (the distribution of goods and services). These are common problems after a terrible disaster but also the plans of emergency had not been very succesful and well planned. The people in charge of giving the food and supplies for the damaged people, have not given very good to all. Some stay without eating or having supplies for maintaining themselves and their families. This is caused because of the very big demand of them. The problem was obvious so the government and volunteers will have to look for the best solution to solve the problem of the supplies. May be there are or can be enough supplies, but the way they are distributing them, wasn't being very acceptable and well.

Haiti government should be ready and start improving their plans in order to equilibrate the supply and demand numbers, and to people have their supplies. They can have more supplies, or look what they can do to with that number of supplies, if they can give enough to all.

We will see in next days, what happen.

Water Problem in Hermosillo

We know that Hermosillo has a big problem with the scarcity of water. First of all, it is a scarcity problem, which at the same time can be related to the topic we saw today, SUPPLY AND DEMAND!

I won't talk about prices (inflation) depending on demand and supply. Instead, I prefer to talk about resources, material things. In our case, the supply is water which is demanded by us. Of course in Hermosillo, this methods and theories are affected by several different factors, that affect and can change the behaving of numbers. (desert, dry climate, poor raining...)

The real problem is that each new year Hermosillo is increasing its level of population, that in result, needs more supplies in order to survive and live well. This raise plus many others growth such as bussinesses, houses, farms, etc... demand more resources, in this particular case, water. So if the demand increase the supply needs to increase, but in our case, its decreasing due to many reasons.

In my personal opinion the most important reason of why Hermosillo has not enough water is the crazy raise of population which leds into an increase of demand. I know it is good for a city to become bigger in all ways, but I also think that it was not studied before, and prevented.

Obviously, this problem may be it can be less in parts were it rains more; eventhough, in some other deserts they have enough water, even that some of them are the double of Hillo. Politics, economists, and scientists they may be prevented the increase of demand, but they didn't prevent the decrease of supply, or they didn't take actions in order to solve and equilibrate the situation.

The results are that today we have lack of water, and that government wants to quit water from other parts of the state, which instead of helping will be in a pair of years , letting into a biggest problem of scarcity, because the Supply not only of Hillo will be less, also now from the South will decrease, so may be they can support Hermosillo for a few years, but later they will see that the demand will be increasing soooo more water (supply) is needed. Just that at that moment, the supply from the state will be less (because you already quit them, and they also have their own demand). I can go and write more about this problem, but the important thing in here, is that Hermosillo demand is increasing too fast,(good for economy and development) but the supplies are not increasing. These is what the State needs to solve, how to control and equilibrate the Supply (water) and Demand (people popu's increase) graph of Sonora.

I think it is an easy problem of Supply and demand, which is related to scarcity and also to politics. The solution, we all know it, is INCREASE the supply. How? Not taking out water from other part of the state, instead, we need to AGGREGATE water to our bodies of water. Taking out water from another part of the state is the same, we are finishing our state supplies. I don't know what is the solution (may be bring water from a part that water ends to the ocean andthat is desperdiciada., or can be making a desalinator; it doesn't matter it is expensive, it is needed and more useful) Both of these, can be an example of aggregating water, and not taking from other part and decreasing the state's supply.

All people have to look very well to the behavior of Supply and Demand of Sonora, and look what is the best solution, which will not affect the Supplies of others. They have to take a decision that equilibrates the situation. That decision has to be taken with studies and the correct plans and programs, not with friend/bussinessmen interests decisions. We have to look more for what will be better for ALL people, and that will increase our demand, in order to support the amount of demand.!

Scarcity: Good or Bad?

Can scarcity be an opportunity of changing and being better?
As we all know, scarcity is a huge global problem that affects people in many forms. But talking about another point of scarcity we can see it as a good thing.

Logiclly, scarcity is bad because it is something that affects and damages people and its world. But if we take another point of view may be it can be not that bad. I will explain this with an example.

Currently, Hermosillo is living scarcity. Why? Because there is no water to support the population and the bussinesses. Due to this we have a bad situation in all matters, so we can say that Scarcity is bad for us. Now, if we analyze the situation we can notice that because of the problem many people is starting to talk, and the government to give ideas and programs in order to solve the problem. The thing here is that this problem is giving us an opportunity to change, to improve our city and our society. Yes, scarcity is bad and harmful; but eventhough it damages, it can also helps us; because with the problem the government can look for the best solutions for its city and its people, and more important it can make that people start to care about things, about resources, about water.

Scarcity is really bad, but may be it is necessary in order to make people change and take care about the problems and about all things. As a friend wrote in the blog, if we could have all perfectly, the world will never change or improve. Because there's no reason to. But with scarcity and with problems, it is prooved that people changes and starts making things in order to improve and have the less possible problems. This means that a problem give us many bad things, but they open many windows of opportunities. Opportunities that if we take them and make them, the world will improve and the problem will be over or decreased.

We have to change the way of looking problems. I know they are bad, scarcity is. But we need to think that problems have a reason of being; which is to help and to change or improve the world. Without problems we couldn't have solutions, which are essential in human life. Because thanks to many solutions in history, we are what we are. We looked for solutions in a problem, that plus solving the problem, they also make us change and improve.

So Scarcity is good or bad? Or better yet, how can we convert it to a good and positive thing? If we solve the problem with the best solutions and actions, we are making Scarcity a good thing.