Fly me to the moon: The Bangkok optician who makes bamboo saxophones

Introduction of the new:

Not far from Bangkok's Khlong Lod canal lies an optician's run by a man named Waiboon Tungyuenyong. It is set in a long row of shophouses that lines one side of Atsadang Road.

The story of the shop and its owner is replicated many times over in this part of the city, with one exception. This particular store also doubles as a purveyor of bamboo saxophones.

“Sometimes people ask me to teach them, but they don’t have the patience, and they can’t pick the wood," says Waiboon.

“I was born here, upstairs," Waiboon explains, gesturing to the ceiling. "My parents came from mainland China, and they ran a shop, like a 7-Eleven. Next door was a general store, selling hammers, nails, mosquito nets. This area was the centre of Bangkok around 80 years ago. The suburbs were just fields."

The new: http://www.cnngo.com/bangkok/life/bangkok-optician-who-moonlights-bamboo-saxophone-maker-209032?hpt=C2

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My opinion:

I think that this sir named Waiboon Tungyuenyong would have to be an example to follow for a lot of people. Waiboon are demostrating to the world that the phrase: if you want something you can achieve it, is fully true. When Waiboon wanted play saxophone, he started learning all the tunes of the classic music listening the radio. When he had memorized all the tunes, he started to fabricate a bamboo saxophone. Waiboon had tried to make a good bamboo saxophone for four years, but one day a client in the shop asked to Waiboon if he could play one of the bamboo saxophones. Waiboon thought that the bamboo saxophone would not work, but when the client tried to play it, it sounded fine. How much people in the world that we know can try for four years fabricate something like a bomboo saxophone? I have the answer: anyone. I'm very surprise because the insistence of Waiboon to fabricate a saxophone and to achieve one of his dreams. I think that all the people will have to insist like Waiboon to achieve their dreams, if we try it we can accomplish our objectives!

Madagascan bird declared extinct

A small bird which live in the Madagascar island has been officially classified extinct, according to a leading bird conservation organization.

The species, found on Lake Alaotra, the largest lake in Madagascar, dissapeared rapidly due to carnivorous fish and the use of nylon nets by local fishermen.

No hope now remains for this specie. It is another example of how human actions can have bad consequences for the wildlife and the vegetation.

But the news isn't all bad. Conservation projects are having a positive impact on the survival of bird species.

Some species has been passed from "critically endangered" to "endangered" thanks to conservation work to restore its natural vegetation.

Cockpit voice recorder recovered from Air France mystery crash

Web notice: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/05/03/france.jet.crash/index.html

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Opinion:

In my opinion this is a very good notice, but is a bad new at the same time.

The good part is that the biggest part of the body of the plane was found, so a lot of people and families will have news about their relatives who died in the accident. Another nice new is that the world are closer to know what really happened in this plane when it fell, why it fell? what caused the accident? The accident was caused for a terrorist or pilot error?. As last nice thing about this finding is that exists the posibility that with the information that the pilot recorded with the Black Box Navigation of the plane, engineers are able to solve possible problems of this aircraft for the new aircraft.

The bad part of this new is the part that I criticize. How is posible that in the 21 century we lost two years searching an aircraft underwater, we have very potent satelits that can produce earthquakes in the earth but we can't see the disturbances that cause the impact of a plane falling in the ocean. How is it possible that this plane completely full of transmitters, and communication tools can't send a signal with her position? How is it possible that we have to search these wreckage sending a lot of submarines to the profundities of the oceans? Why we can't detect some metal of the wreckage or some digital or electronic signal from the surface, but we can see a little bomb in a hand of a terrorist watching with a satelite?

Because the majority of the tecnology of this world is designed and created with only one objective: the violence, the war, the defense of our territory...

Hope for early bowel cancer DNA test

NOTICE:

Scientists have discovered what could be the first step towards a DNA test to detect the early signs of bowel cancer.

Tests on two distinct genes were highly accurate in distinguishing between tumours and benign polyps - growths in the bowel that can become cancerous.

While not all polyps in the bowel become cancerous it is thought almost all bowel cancers develop from polyps.

The Cambridge study, in the BMJ journal Gut, analysed 261 samples from patients with benign polyps or bowel cancer.

In particular it looked at what are called DNA methylation patterns - a key process in cell development.

'Improve survival'

Dr Lesley Walker, Cancer Research UK's director of cancer information, says the research opens up the possibility of much earlier diagnosis of bowel cancer, when it is easier to treat.

"We've come a long way in improving screening and developing better treatments - our scientists have been involved in testing many drugs that are used to treat bowel cancer and they've had a key role in pinning down the genetic causes of the disease.

"But there is still more to be done. Research like this is vital in our goal to develop the best methods to detect, monitor and treat cancer and improve survival."

More than 38,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with the disease each year.

My comment:

When I found this notice I was filled with happiness. The notices like this give me a lot of hope, maybe in not much time the cancers will be cured easily. The science of medicine is moving very fast, so I hope that this investigation will not stall and will improve a lot our lifes. I think that if this investigation have succes the scientifics will be able to do the same with all the cancers and not only with the cancer of the bowel. If that happen our life expectancy will improve a lot.

One friend of my parent died the last year because a cancer of lung, that friend was also my friend and I had a very bad time when he died. I hope that this never repeat in my life, I want someone to be able to cure the cancers of all the ill persons. I would like this investigation to be succesful.

iPad 2 tablet

Apple has launched the second generation of its iPad tablet computer at an event in San Francisco.

The company said the machine featured a faster processor, improved graphics, and front and rear cameras.

Apple leads the industry in sales of tablet devices, but has recently begun to lose share to rivals such as HP and Samsung.

The event was hosted by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave since January.

It had been widely speculated that he would not appear owing to his ill health.

Mr Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2004.

Speaking on stage, he said: "We have been working on this product for a while and I just didn't want to miss today."

Apple has billed the iPad 2 as slimmer, lighter and faster than its predecessor.

The new device features the company's latest dual core A5 processor, which, it is claimed, delivers twice the processing power of the original iPad.

iPad 2 will go on sale in the US on 11 March, followed by 26 other countries, including the UK, on 25 March.

In the United States, pricing will remain the same as for the first iPad, between $499 (£305) and $826 (£505). Other countries are also expected to retain their original pricing models.

OPINION:

Lately the business of tablets computers has grown a lot. At the first time only Apple produced, but now HP and Samsung are producing and selling a lot of tablets PC. Currently Apple has the market dominance but the competition are growing their market. Anyway Apple is the most advanced company with the tablets PC so they developed a new version of her iPad, the iPad 2. I believe that the iPad 2 will be more slim, light and fast because it have a best microprocessor, but there is a thing that I don't think is true: The price will be the same of her predecessor. I think that this is only a dream, I don't remember any case in the world where that happened. Maybe it will be true and if it happen it would be a heavy hit by the competition of HP and Samsung.

I'm sure that a lot of people will buy that wonder of the electronic engineering and maybe I will be one of them.

Formula 1 Championship 2010

This weekend was the last race of the season of F1. In that race was decided who would be the winner of the championship. Is strange that before the last race wasn't decided who would be the winner. Normally, the fans of Formula 1 know which driver will win the championship a few races before the final. But this last weekend we didn't know that. This last weekend Alonso, Webber and Vettel could win the champinship. So the race was very interesting. At first I thought that Alonso would win because he only had to finish the race in the 4th position. But in the first lap Michael Schumacher had an accident with Vitantonio Liuzzi, later Webber had to pit, so Alonso followed him. Was there where Ferrari failed with the strategy because Alonso lost a lot of positions. Later Alonso couldn't advance the pilots which was in front of him. So Vettel who went at the first position won the race and the championship.

Congratulations Vettel!!! But the next year Alonso will win the championship!!!

Germany tightens airport security

Germany is increasing security at airports and railway stations because they have "concrete indications" of terrorist attacks being planned for the end of November. Germany had information of the sustained efforts by Islamist extremists to do terrorist attacks. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said said that the extra security would remain in place because there are reasons for concern. Some of the new security measures would be clearly visible, but others would not.

Mr de Maiziere said Germany had received a tip-off of two bombs were intercepted route from Yemen to the United States last month. The Yemen plot showed the adaptability of terrorists.

I think it's a very good idea to improve the security in the country. But the terrorist

strategists are very inteligent and maybe they can design a plan to bypass the security.

A pilot who don't know english

In august of 2008 some holidaymakers from Europe were flying back to home. While they were flying the pilot diverted from his course. When they had taken that new direction the plane entry to a military airfield. Air traffic controllers tried to notify the pilot that he was flying in a military space. They tried to tell to the pilot that he couldn't landed but he landed all the same. Later, the pilot asked to the passengers if anyone spoke english. When the pilot found an English passenger who knew the pilot asked the passenger if he could translate the information from the radio.

All this wouldn't have happened if the pilot had had a good level of English. So I think that the idea of making English compulsory for the pilot's career is a very good idea.

The last Harry Potter (2007)

The biggest publishing sensation in history finally arrives. On 21 July of 2007 J.K Rowling published the seventh and final book in her Harry Potter series. That new book calls "Harry Potter and the deathly Halows" was the fastest selling book of ever. Aproximately nine million copies of that book was sold in the first day.

J.K Rowling become a dollar billionaire thanks to her Harry Potter series. Ms. Rowling earns all of her money selling over three hundred twenty five million copies in two hundred countries and earning a lot of millions allowing to film companies to make films about her books.

Actually, the comunity fans of Harry Potter asks to J.K Rowling that she continue with the serie. They wants more books of Harry Potter to know more about her history. But Ms. Rowling don't want to continue she says that the history is finished and her ideas to continue are bad and poor.

I think that we have to give thanks to Ms. Rowling because she achieve a very difficult thing. With her books she stimulated the people especially the teenagers to read more books passionately.