The Nobel Prize for economics goes to Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims

The north Americans researchers Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims won the Nobel Prize for economics 2011, informed this Monday (10/10) the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden; the both won together the $1.49 million prize money for the work they did together.

Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims are both 68 years old, and made their researches in a independent way during 1970 and 1980.

According with the academy their work is important to help to characterize in economy which are the effects of government policies. However, Sims sad that their research that won the prize do not have any direct solution for the economic situation that is happing in some place in the global economy.

But the methods developed by the both can be used to guide policymakers, said Sims:

"I don't think my research and methods have any simple direct implications for the current situation," he said in a telephone press conference with reporters in Sweden. "They point to ways to try to unravel why our current situation developed, and new research may lead us out of it."

Thomas J. Sargent, born in 1943 in Pasadena, California, is a professor at New York University. Christopher A. Sims was born in 1942 in Washington and is a professor at Princeton University.

My opinion about the story:

This two Americans teacher and researchers must be very intelligent and you can see that they are very humble too, they keeping saying that their research is not a big deal and that will not change anything instantly, however for the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden recognized their importance and give them a Nobel Prize this just show how significance probably this research is.

And I think that must be very significance for them too, not just because they are wining a Nobel prize, but also because they are wining together, they are friend a long time, they graduated together and now they are wining the Nobel Prize together. How special is this?

Steve Jobs made more than 4.5 millions of mentions in the social networks in less than 12 hours.

The death of the co-founder of Apple Steve Jobs, in the last Wednesday night (10/6) made a commotion in the internet users and made 4.5 million mentions, with the exactly mention of “Steve Jobs” in the first 12 hours of the announcement of his death.

In the first minutes after Apple has informed about the death of Steve Jobs, the internet was invaded with thanks from all type of person all over the world. The tag #iSad already passed 62 thousand of mentions and the expressions #iThankYou, #iThankYouSteve,  #ThankYouStev passed 300 thousand post on Twitter.

The Barack Obama announcement also makes a big commotion and attracted a lot of comment on Twitter and obtained more than 10 thousand replies. “He transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world”.

On Facebook who attract more attention with the comment was Mark Zuckerberg, that reached the amazing number of 289.172 ‘liked’ and it was shared by 21.305 users.  “Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you.”

My opinion about the story.

I think that type of commotion with the death of one of the founder’s of Apple was more than expect. We can actually say that Steve Jobs changed the world and reinvented the way that people think and do their work.  He also have a impact in our childhood when he worked with the Pixar studios changed the film industry forever.We will certainly miss him and all his inventions.  The only thing that we can do now, is exactly what this internet users are doing, find a way to thanks this extraordinary man for all he have done for us. 

Woman taking place

Finally the door has been opened for the women in Saudi Arabia, the King Abdulla has opened the possibility of a woman participate in the municipal election.

The Saudi Arabia is holding the second municipal election after almost 50 years; the election is going to be held this Thursday (09/27). The changes that the King are going to be effect in the next set of election.

The activist Wajeha Al-Huwaider of the Saudi women's rights said that these changes are “Great news”.

"Women's voices will be heard finally," she said. "Now it's time to remove other barriers like not allowing women to drive cars and not being able to function and live a normal life without a male guardian."

Although the king did not use the word "vote," allowing women to take part in the nomination process would amount to voting within Saudi Arabia's system.

As Wajeha said, the woman’s in Saudi Arabia have almost none rights and your life is all depend in your male guardian, give the right to vote to the woman’s is not just let the woman’s vote is give to them the right to make their own choices, and in one country as Saudi Arabia this mean a lot.

The only thing that we can do now is wait and hope that the king will honor with his world.

My opinion about the story:

This story is interesting because show how the world still have countries with a totally different philosophy than ours.

The Saudi Arabia is a country that privileges the men’s and the man have totally control about the woman, this story is interest because shows how this is changing, and in a country as the United States where happens most of all movement for woman’s right it is at least interesting see how the others countries deal with this problem.

The woman’s in the Saudi Arabia have been taught all their lives to be submit to the men’s and to respect them.

It will be interesting see how they will deal with these new “power” that they are receiving.   

09/11 Memorial.

Was opened on this Monday 09/12 after an exactly ten years and one day a memorial to honor and to make us remember about all the victims of the September 11. The memorial has opened Sunday 09/11 an exactly 10 years that the attack occurred but only for the families victims.

Monica Iken said, "We're so proud of this memorial," She lost her husband Michael in the attacks. "I can go see Michael. He's home."

Iken joined the group September mission and are developing an important role in construct of the site that honors the victims of the September 11. The site is away to the victims’ families talk to their lovely friends and family members that had their life taken away in tragic tragedy.

Iken said she comes to the site to connect with her husband. "Every time I come here, I feel the energy. It's powerful," she said.

The memorial is all make by granite and is like 2 giant pools design by Michael Arad. They are placed where the old twin towers was, there walls are all recovered by 3,000 names, the names of the 11 September victims in all the country.

The pool reflect a light and that light is reproduce to the sky and they appear in the exactly place where the old twin towers where.

It is a beautiful action, and a real way to recovered and honor the people of the September 11, the families now could look to that lights and remember about all the lost people that they loved, but the most important, now they know that this persons not died in vain.

“Much has happened over the past three months”

Lauren Spiere a 20 years old, sophomore were disappeared in June 3, after leaving a bar in Bloomington, Indiana with a male friend. Cameras saw her walking around the male student`s apartment around 3:00 am.  Here keys were later found in a alley, but she has been never seen again.

Her parents and family after the kidnapping opens a blog called “Find Lauren” where they talk direct with the kidnapper and with Lauren, they also tell what the family haven been faced along these three months that she have been disappeared.

Saturday, September 3, after completed three months since Lauren disappeared her mother posted a beautiful and emotional letter on the blog talking how the family have been dealing with here disappeared.

In the letter Lauren`s mothers shows that she stays strong and that she still have hope to find her daughter, she tells how was the sensation to pack up her daughter`s stuff that were in her room in the Indiana University, because the students returned for the Fall semester, and the felling to know that her daughter won`t be there.  

“Nineteen boxes," she said. "Can you imagine that so much promise would fit into 19 boxes? I won't go into the details of what it was like to pack Lauren's things. I will just tell you it was excruciating. Every moment was excruciating.”

The police have been looking along these moths around the building that Lauren disappeared and looking for evidences that could help find Lauren but the Police have not named any suspects until now.

 My opinion about the story:  I think is beautiful and very brave what Lauren’s family made, a blog so that they can express what they are felling is a great thing, but at the same time I cannot avoid think that this could be dangerous for the own Lauren, because they don’t have Idea who kidnapped their daughter, they don’t even have certain if their daughter were kidnapped, but if their daughter’s kidnapper were some kind of serial killer with mental problems, this Blog could just encourage him to continues with this crazies crimes, and in his mind this blog is kind of a prize showing  the “good work” that he is doing. The family’s victims of any crime should be aware of what kind of information they provide for the media and public access, because this could compromised the police work, give some clues  to the criminal and even encourage him.

Hurricane Irene kills 25 and evacuates more than 370,000 New Yorkers.

The USA is not in a very privileged place, he had to pass through hurricanes, earthquakes and others natural events, though he had huge lost some time, could be worst. And one of the best examples of that is what happens on this Sunday (08/28) the Irene hurricane.

The Irene hurricane began to arrive in the New York City on Sunday morning, with most of the roads flooded and the Times Square abandoned. That happens because all the residents of New York was already informed about the intensity of the Irene Hurricane and did not left their homes. "When you wake up in the morning, please, stay inside,'' a Bloomberg said that, Saturday night (08/27) "Nature is a lot stronger than the rest of us."

 A mandatory evacuation was ordered for over 370,000 residents of New York City that were in dangerous zones. The Bloomberg said that they want that the hurricane be an inconvenience not a fatal experience. It was the first mandatory evacuation in New York's history.

In the end of the story the Irene hurricane made more than 10,000 airplanes be canceled, 90 emergency shelters have been opened in NYC, put 65million in risk around the country, and made at least 25 victims in the United States.

However, one more time the United States shows for the world how organized and preventive they can be saving a lot of lives.

My opinion about the story:

One more time the United States shows a responsible work protecting their citizens  

And organizing a immediately and functional evacuation.

 I think the Irene hurricane was something very scary for all the persons that living here in the United States, the hurricane don`t pass in Georgia, but we could see how destructive he was in the others states.

Just opened the season of hurricane here and we already have a big and dangerous one. That leaves me to think what else we should be preparing for.

Hopefully we started with the worst and all the hurricanes that come now on won’t be worst than a storm.   

 

Washington monument closed indefinitely.

The Washington monument is closed after one of the biggest earthquake of the century in the USA.  The earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 that reached the East coast of the United States made some damages in the city.

The Earthquake happened at the 1:51 pm. on Tuesday (08/23) near the city of Mineral, Virginia.

Besides the pieces of the monument that collapsed, a structural engineer said that the monument probably had thorough damages and it won`t opened again until they fix all the problems.

The Washington monument wasn’t the only one who had problems after the earthquake. The Washington National Cathedral was also closed because of damages, including some cracks and broken pinnacles. However most of the federals buildings and monuments in Washington re-opened after Tuesday afternoon.

The earthquake didn’t bring majors damages, but he scared a lot of people. They had to evacuate a lot of places, and because of the earthquake they had to stop an operation in Virginia at the Nuclear power plant.

The earthquake also put more 12 nuclear facilities on alert; however those alerts were easily cancelled.

They haven’t had an earthquake in Virginia with this magnitude since 1897.

My opinion about the story:

The Story is very interesting for me because is relate to something that is happen in our country, and a lot of people sad that they actually could feel the earthquake here in Georgia, I don`t know how much of this is true but It was something that really call the attention around the country.

It was a very unusually event here in the USA, but we could see that the country is very ready if something like that happens in a major density.

I just hope that nothing like that happens again, but I know it will, so I`m glad that I have confidence in this country to protect me of an event like this.

Sources: CNN News, Gizmodo and CBS News