Thursday, September 30, 2010

Upscaling Satellite Receiver Review

The walls of St. Sophia. Miscellaneous Thoughts

remember Santa Sofia with fresh rigor. Never a monument meant so much to me, in essence, and my hobbies. Anguita outside or Barcelona, \u200b\u200bin the distant crystal Turkey few seek a building that I have such reverence and admiration. Yes, I say well, for today Santa Sophia is Turkish, as once it was Byzantine. Is the time who has given me the opportunity to meet, to even see it in person, why should I deny its value performative, and stay with stale and past? Santa Sofia is something "at present", and another thing "in thought."
Opposite the Blue Mosque is nothing more than her older sister, a great and ancient temple. In the imagined is the temple he saw some of the most important events of history, and some of their authors. No need to be Greek or Turkish to love those walls. Just enough to love their past experiences, and styles that she was dressed elegantly beautiful as . Santa Sofia is one of the great landmarks in history, a monument to live up to anyone who has already built or in the future can. Key current thinking that Santa Sofía is Byzantine is a half fulfilled. Santa Sofia think belongs to Greek culture and imagination, down to policy issues.
Like it or not, the walls have no feelings or psyches, just shapes. The settings that reaches us is the current product of necessity course of time and the different influences that have fallen on "thing." Santa Sofia is Byzantine, Roman and Ottoman Turkish. Santa Sofia is a melting pot, which the Mosque of Cordoba, a place that has borne the brunt, and the heritage of Arabian cultures and civilizations .
The sensations are psychological reactions to physical elements. "Building" is what actually exists, "seen" is actually lived. We tend to confuse dimensions that never had hope reconciled are simple prisms will ever greater link than ourselves. Hence wanting to impose identities is an aberration, a failure, as each felt for each building, for example, something different.
is incorrect to say that Istanbul is Constantinople , city "quasi heaven" for the Greek historical aspirations. Defender otherwise is to promote conflict, as they do, almost by definition, nationalism . Personal identity, that somehow make him " turcófilo " to a server, can not travel over into a unique and generic. Group identities, if they exist, are merely sums of individual , statistical results, in no small measure, just to show simple generic data (such as love for a drink or a preference for a type of music .) Defender
the "Hellenic " Santa Sofia is stripped of its minarets , repositioning mosaics, which for historical reasons, we were caught. This implies conflict, violence, and therefore, something "outrageous" in minds healthy and balanced . The problem often lies in pretending to have a "historical identity" as always and inevitably, there is "dynamic." Everyone identifies with their experiences, their past visits, their loved ones and their hobbies. There are no common tastes beyond the statistics. We are all different in thought, simply because of chance, only really proven metaphysical force.
It is written here, in great part by what I dream to see again, hopefully on several occasions, Santa Sofia . These are the internal forces that lead me to love this ancient temple as other buildings nearby. My tastes, my hobbies, my experiences and I approach her dreams sometimes. Santa Sofia verily I use of metaphor. Had I not had the story has, I had not come to her.
Past are tools for the study, to enrich, but never tight constraints for change and progress against the Future. Personal identities are changing, everyone has their own, personal, nontransferable, any attempt to change it will be useless, any attempt to impose it will be brutal.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Demanufacture Fear Factory

, different thoughts. Social Barracudas

Maybe being in the "heat of laziness, or just feel like to share more than Grafias with readers, I suggest reading some of my "maximum life", thoughts that I wanted to put in a few sentences, moreover, very descriptive of my feelings and convictions. I hope you like them.
Knowledge is the first step towards compliance.
Luck does not breathe without effort.
Memory is the gymnastics of the mind.
slacker Man is selfish by nature, education is what makes us good and workers.
all tend, or want to procure, the heat of laziness.
The best discipline is to have need.
talking a lot helps one to be wrong, but also to reflect.
learn from mistakes, but it is better to have learned before falling into them.
who falls in love is the brain, the heart just keeps the body alive.
Eat before you enjoy.
Gluttony is an excess, a lack of laziness.
Do not say useless, and have asked you before what your path.
Each one does not have a destination, it manufactures.
The future is all about what we can influence.
No nobler or more, religion that follow those who were exemplary in life.
A fool is always more dangerous than a motherfucker.
who presumes nothing, it is likely that much is missing.
Past midnight the body always wants to sleep, everything else is a product of alcohol.
Democracy is the sum of individual dictatorship.
The best guarantee of democracy is control possession of weapons.
To be a Democrat, you must first be a citizen.
Tolerance implies turning a blind eye to the provocations.
Paste know the beasts, talking, or even parrots.
Nobody has a hundred friends, do not pretend to have so many good friends.
We are all Nationalists, when we get frustrated or pimps so.
The languages \u200b\u200bare different noises to say the same content.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Why Is My Stool Dark Brown/black?



Article published in The Reform, Liberal Journal
We approach the coming elections to the Catalan Regional Parliament, and a low turnout seems to be confirmed, once again, the November 28 (day of FC Barcelona - Real Madrid). Far from worrying too much, lack of participation it seems like a benefit, in part searched for certain political parties. Those parties with a more disciplined electorate (generally nationalist parties) are benefiting from the low turnout, especially when, as is well known, the center-left supporters (PSC Ciutadans) are more prone to " electoral absenteeism. " For those freeloaders, " free riders" who would say the English, to throw parts of the body is a law of life. Let me explain.
Back in the Golden Age of literature in Catalan, Francesc Eiximenis wrote about society as a whole, as a body where every part of the male figure represented an estate, a sector of the Royal Society (the arms were the men of arms, eyes and ears, judges and officials). Everything is in perfect harmony in the city Eiximenis ideal. Later, Thomas Hobbes would take a similar model, represented his "leviathanic" state in a similar way.
Without wishing to emulate the wisdom of the famous Girona, compare today's society with a school of fish. Within it are thousands of individuals to form a single whole, though, on many occasions, there are other specimens interested in them "break ranks "and get the body only to deflate, casting the part of the joint. These individuals malevolent purpose could be called "social barracudas, carnivorous beings who try to pierce the body politic, for their own purposes. People who, far from prejudice, disunity are fed to feed a privileged position (under threat of damage to the real representation). Like it or not, there are those who like the "bank" democracy is dispersed, not all part of the electoral system. A massive turnout hurts the games political establishment ... What interest will be to promote mass participation in elections? Using people out from the democratic body, is a way of holding power.
I remember one of my most memorable teachers exhorted us in classes of Administrative Law to never stop participating in politics, which we did not allow the policy is not grounds for prepared minds, leaving the way open to interested parties shift. Certainly, I signed that statement then, and I do now. Political participation should not only manifest in the polls, but also participation within political parties. The work must stop militant resemble that of the union (people interested in the public realm, disconnected from reality, and not directly accountable to the people). We must adapt our representative system to the changing society it represents.
democratic regeneration is essential. Not only is required to "bank" and running again, but to do so before being carrion for barracudas (which is already happening ...). Talking about politics can not turn into a "talk of another's", "business of others." The "public affairs" must be part ourselves, we can not forget that our life as a social animal is based on coexistence, and not politics, this is impossible. We must return to the agora of oratory, relive policy, participating in everything that affects us.
Perhaps the lack of social solidarity, the incivility and other acts of vandalism have something to do with it. The state (or the Autonomous Community, the City or Province), is not seen as something belonging to everyone, but as a "social individual" foreign. Public properties are only for public entities (entities beyond our control), sneak into the Renfe train is stealing, and not to individual citizens which that our taxes paid for the infrastructure of this country ... The disconnect between reality and blatant ballot box. Will they be able to those who benefit (our "Barracuda") to find a solution to the problem? For my part I doubt it, but no longer participate or talk politics.
* take this opportunity to remind counsel of the recently deceased freedom. Rest in Peace, D. José Antonio Labordeta!

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Poptropica Colouring Pages

Welcome Don Pepito!

Everyone has a dream for his country. Some yearn for the full legalization of drugs, the establishment of the largest amusement park world or nudity required, others dream of a country run by women only, while some people think that their country would be better if it were a nuclear power. One of my dreams, well known by those who know me, is that Spain one day become a superpower as far as dinosaurs are concerned, and apparently it is on track.
With the secrecy that characterizes all university after seven years, has been presented to the media Corcovatus Concavenator the Hispania superpredator terrifying the Mesozoic. With 6 feet long, "Pepito," since this is known colloquially, is a member of the family of carnosaurs, namely, that of the carcharodontosaurid (or shark-toothed dinosaurs.)
The most curious feature of this specimen is its hump. Without being a sail back, as in the case of Spinosaurus pelycosaurs or (not dinosaurs) Dimetrodon, the Concavenator hump is a great mystery. There are those who believe that could well have served as a temperature controller (in the same way as did the candles, it seems, of reptiles listed above, or the African elephant's ears), although there are those who see it as a store of fat (such as camels and dromedaries) or even a distinctive sign. Along with this hump highlights the discovery of a series of bumps on the ulna (ulna, thanks to the clarification made by Jorge W. Moreno-Bernal) to give attachment to the larger feathers) on the forearms of the animal (such as has been discovered in more strictly avian reptiles such as Velociraptor ).
The discovery was made in Las Hoyas (Cuenca), where he also found the remains of Iberomesornis and Pelecanimimus (the only ornithomimosaurs (ostrich dinosaur) found in Europe). How could it be otherwise in Spain, the production of "Pepito" has coincided with the announcement of a major investment to build a research center of the dinosaurs in Cuenca (there was already an institution "equal" in Teruel, Dinópolis and a few months of an election ...). If anything has changed is that the fossil (the most complete dinosaur found in Spain) you can visit, it seems, at the Museum of Natural Sciences of Cuenca.
Let us see what is the Administration's commitment with the new center, and if we see the fossil along with others in a museum attraction. At the moment there are many speculations, but at least, "Pepito" made my day a lot, in these times as needed ...
* Illustration: "Dinosaurs , the end ", Went Ivan illustration . Concavenator was related to Carcharodontosaurus, a species represented in the picture.

Saturday, September 4, 2010

What Projector Screen Should I Buy

"Centurion"

" This is not the beginning of my story, nor the final . " So begins " Centurion " film, directed by Neil Marshall, who takes us back to the time of Emperor Hadrian, when Rome decided to build the famous wall, giving more to fight the fearsome Picts. Michael Fassbender (Centurion Quintus Days) is taken prisoner to drop his garrison managed to escape and enlist in the 9 th Legion (although it says that have 3000 members, the film features neither 30). Victim of a betrayal, the legionnaires are swept by the Pictish tribes, surviving only a group of soldiers (which will henceforth seek, first save his general (taken prisoner), and second, to save themselves.) The "company" of survivors, as says the critic, recalls in excess of Frodo in " The Lord of the Rings ."
The film's budget is comparatively low, and a very good staging (with great views) was not accompanied by a realistic detail, the film approaching dangerously the increasingly typical historical film genre of action ( Do you remember the last on "King Arthur"?). Pretending to hold shares in "British tomato", the film abounds blood, guts and other dislikes, wanting to provide realism to the action (so the price of assimilate partition heads to pumpkin). However, it is just something about this aspect which not only "saves" the movie makes it something worth seeing. "
Continuing the trends of recent times, the soldiers of Centurion "clear away the military" poets "of the old Charlton Heston films, showing the horrors of any war with a cruel sometimes excessive. The excesses of both sides do not stop being a criticism of the war in its entirety. Women raped children killed ... the "exploits" of Romans and Picts remember, not free, those of estadoudinenses and Iraqis. Centurion Quintus Dias is betrayed, along with his troops, by the beautiful Olga Kurylenko (Etain in the film), who, initially, was enlisted by the Romans (although of Pictish origin.) Etain imagined biography speaks for itself. His parents, Picts, were tortured by the troops of the Empire (his blinded father, his mother raped and raped her, while his tongue cut out so that I could never tell what happened). Excess remember, and much, to those committed by the military in old Mesopotamia, now Iraq ... While it is true that "Centurion " the characters are portrayed very poorly in terms of psychology, ceases to be less than the "moral" of the film is commendable and necessary.
After being betrayed by a tracker picta and suffer the harassment of a picto command run by the same treacherous (motivated by the murder in retaliation, the son of the head by a Roman), our centurion is ultimately betrayed by the Romans. First by their Emperor, who withdrew the border to the famous wall that will hold your name, then by the guards of the same (which will trigger one of the survivors, when the approached the wall, jubilant, after spending all possible hardships), and finally, by the Roman politician for the region (who is in survivors of the 9 th a threat to their honor and merit). The ending is predictable, the centurion is the sole survivor finds love in the beautiful Imogen Poots (Arianne), who had formerly been repudiated by the Picts, as regarded a sorceress.
After blood stasis and bad habits, "Centurion " leads to a final thought: the danger of individual identities. Our final marriage makes us see the inconsistencies, excesses and other aspects for the repulsion, both among the Picts and the Romans. In the film referred to in many cases, how little it's worth a human life (either a slave or of a Pict who loses looking to avenge the son of the boss). Ideas like "Men die in war, not political" succeed, the criticism is obvious.
The solution, though predictable, I find it very poetic. Both lovers (the Roman and Pictish) waive their "nationality" facing towards love. Our soldier, even says go to "place" when he plants the Romans (who have tried to kill him by treachery) to be with his love. Individual identities are non-transferable, never collective. Wars are not really ideal, but tools by which leaders "play" and "listed" in the "market power and geo-strategy." Perhaps, if you ask whether much of the film, the key question that arises is the following ... Is not it the greatest mystery of mankind why wars will never be extinguished?
Go see this movie and think about these ideas. Just do not see it in most cases, the offending blood, rather than shown.