Monday, February 28, 2011
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Friday, February 25, 2011
Invisible Facebook Check
Billy Preston - Song Of Joy
When I lived in Venezuela I bought this album, which I liked. I always remembered this song, a little sad, and now found it on You Tube.
saw in Caracas also live with his awful wig, which eventually took off for the encore. Good show. Energy was a guy ...
When I lived in Venezuela I bought this album, which I liked. I always remembered this song, a little sad, and now found it on You Tube.
saw in Caracas also live with his awful wig, which eventually took off for the encore. Good show. Energy was a guy ...
Radio Frequency Fm Modulator Ic
and who is laudanum?
WELL MY FRIENDS SOME DAYS AGO SENT ME A COMMENT ON THIS BAND MEMBERS TO BE GIVEN TO MEET HERE IN MEXICO AND THE TRUTH I LIKE YOUR MUSIC AS A MAIL ORDER LET'S SEE WHO MY DISCO HAHA ARE
I have to start making a confession: The second work of Laudanum Rioja has achieved, for the first time in a long time, I feel absolutely powerless to express all the feelings that I walk when I hear it. I can not explain, with the limited vocabulary we use, all the grandeur and the beauty that contains the "Dies Irae" I can not just I can not. My words will be more than sad and pathetic reflection of the fact that paint startlingly beautiful notes of this essential disc.
could start by saying that this is a conceptual work that revolves around the figure of a girl named Icarus. When night falls loneliness, memories and sorrow gripped the soul, breaking and crushing without mercy. Despair and bitterness that the assault are also those that beset us every time we look back and recapitulate on our lives. And, as in the case of Icarus, the only medicine that can help alleviate the pain continuous medium is music.
With the cooing of the beautiful verses of a song that it's any consolation, Icarus falls into a dream in which a series of strange characters will guide you through a journey through a fantasy world in search of a hope that allows out of this black pit of anxiety in which his life has become. When he finally wakes up and the rays of the rising sun will caress the face the girl feels that he finally has a reason to live. I wish we could all be so lucky and we found a solution that would make peace in our souls.
This is, broadly speaking, the story that is part of the disc and you can read on the website of Laudanum. Although not essential to enjoy the music, knowing the history makes clear many things and helps you see the job from a totally different perspective. The album will go to the first but the story makes you identify with the protagonist because his search for a reason to live and to love is also your search.
As for the music, the evolution with respect to "dream" Laudanum the previous CD, is just remarkable. The range of genres has expanded and now we can find songs perfectly framed in the gothic rock ('Dies Irae', 'Blood Mares', 'Icarus') in the darkwave ('Night Eternal', 'The Fall' ), The ethereal (the instrumental 'Dawn' and 'Image II') or, and this is the big news of this record, in a symphonic gothic that will make himself the envy of the Lacrimosa Tilo Wolff ("The Last Promise ' 'We are listening'). In these two sections were counted with the collaboration of a soprano and a tenor that provide a great magnificence that already have these issues alone. The soprano also puts women's voices in the rest of the album, taking many records ranging from the romantic to the incident through the sensual.
The remaining issues, as I said, also have a high level. 'Dies Irae' mixed with wisdom elements of gothic rock with more symphonic, getting a really exciting result which highlights the female voice. 'Night Eternal' darkwave more stuck on land, has a dark ambience achieved thanks to the whispers of the male voice and intonations of the real treasure is the female voice. 'Seas of Blood' and 'Icarus' is pure delight. Of 'Icarus' could point out that looks like two songs in one, the first part and the second symphonic gothic gothic rock pop. The instrumental 'Dawn' and 'Image' recreate, especially 'Image', landscapes of breathtaking beauty where you would want to live forever. The very symphonic 'We are listening' is the complex of all the cuts, wonderful melodies are interspersed with a variety of keyboards, guitars and vocals all in making a direct attack on your soul. Rises will feel more and more and more .... SOURCE: http://www.mentenebre.com/articulos.php?op=verarticle&artid=437
IF YOU WANT MORE OF THIS BANDA VISIT www.laudano.com AND PAR AMI WEB SITE IS MISSING THE BIOGRAPHY OF THOSE IF YOU READ THIS THE integrants BANDA DE L AMISMA please send me your
BIOGRAPHY MY MAIL ME BOYS AND THEIR MUSIC TASTE PUT ONE ON MY RADIO SHOW AND GOOD LUCK
Pour WIN !!!!!
WELL MY FRIENDS SOME DAYS AGO SENT ME A COMMENT ON THIS BAND MEMBERS TO BE GIVEN TO MEET HERE IN MEXICO AND THE TRUTH I LIKE YOUR MUSIC AS A MAIL ORDER LET'S SEE WHO MY DISCO HAHA ARE
I have to start making a confession: The second work of Laudanum Rioja has achieved, for the first time in a long time, I feel absolutely powerless to express all the feelings that I walk when I hear it. I can not explain, with the limited vocabulary we use, all the grandeur and the beauty that contains the "Dies Irae" I can not just I can not. My words will be more than sad and pathetic reflection of the fact that paint startlingly beautiful notes of this essential disc.
could start by saying that this is a conceptual work that revolves around the figure of a girl named Icarus. When night falls loneliness, memories and sorrow gripped the soul, breaking and crushing without mercy. Despair and bitterness that the assault are also those that beset us every time we look back and recapitulate on our lives. And, as in the case of Icarus, the only medicine that can help alleviate the pain continuous medium is music.
With the cooing of the beautiful verses of a song that it's any consolation, Icarus falls into a dream in which a series of strange characters will guide you through a journey through a fantasy world in search of a hope that allows out of this black pit of anxiety in which his life has become. When he finally wakes up and the rays of the rising sun will caress the face the girl feels that he finally has a reason to live. I wish we could all be so lucky and we found a solution that would make peace in our souls.
This is, broadly speaking, the story that is part of the disc and you can read on the website of Laudanum. Although not essential to enjoy the music, knowing the history makes clear many things and helps you see the job from a totally different perspective. The album will go to the first but the story makes you identify with the protagonist because his search for a reason to live and to love is also your search.
As for the music, the evolution with respect to "dream" Laudanum the previous CD, is just remarkable. The range of genres has expanded and now we can find songs perfectly framed in the gothic rock ('Dies Irae', 'Blood Mares', 'Icarus') in the darkwave ('Night Eternal', 'The Fall' ), The ethereal (the instrumental 'Dawn' and 'Image II') or, and this is the big news of this record, in a symphonic gothic that will make himself the envy of the Lacrimosa Tilo Wolff ("The Last Promise ' 'We are listening'). In these two sections were counted with the collaboration of a soprano and a tenor that provide a great magnificence that already have these issues alone. The soprano also puts women's voices in the rest of the album, taking many records ranging from the romantic to the incident through the sensual.
The remaining issues, as I said, also have a high level. 'Dies Irae' mixed with wisdom elements of gothic rock with more symphonic, getting a really exciting result which highlights the female voice. 'Night Eternal' darkwave more stuck on land, has a dark ambience achieved thanks to the whispers of the male voice and intonations of the real treasure is the female voice. 'Seas of Blood' and 'Icarus' is pure delight. Of 'Icarus' could point out that looks like two songs in one, the first part and the second symphonic gothic gothic rock pop. The instrumental 'Dawn' and 'Image' recreate, especially 'Image', landscapes of breathtaking beauty where you would want to live forever. The very symphonic 'We are listening' is the complex of all the cuts, wonderful melodies are interspersed with a variety of keyboards, guitars and vocals all in making a direct attack on your soul. Rises will feel more and more and more .... SOURCE: http://www.mentenebre.com/articulos.php?op=verarticle&artid=437
IF YOU WANT MORE OF THIS BANDA VISIT www.laudano.com AND PAR AMI WEB SITE IS MISSING THE BIOGRAPHY OF THOSE IF YOU READ THIS THE integrants BANDA DE L AMISMA please send me your
BIOGRAPHY MY MAIL ME BOYS AND THEIR MUSIC TASTE PUT ONE ON MY RADIO SHOW AND GOOD LUCK
Pour WIN !!!!!
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Can You Eat Expired Chicken Broth
Identity is desire (another chapter of my book "Zest for Life" explained briefly) why
How Are Teeth Abbesses Caused
young people drink alcohol? (Article mine today in The Nation)
begins:
As well as adults. Not so much for the taste but for the effect. There is some social hypocrisy on this issue, which prevents us from seeing clearly that alcohol "sticks" and that that is its success. It's a drug, a legal drug, but a drug. And even more: a drug charming, sensational, socializing, fun, accessible, inexpensive, generally manageable. The kids drink to feel the freedom and relaxation as adults we like to feel the beer, wine, champagne or whiskey. The problem is that while adults can manage their consumption, because experience and maturity increases the capacity of self-knowledge and self-control, the boys did not correctly evaluate the hazards and can be damaged severely.
teenage alcohol consumption is one of the most disturbing to parents who love their children, an issue that takes away the sleep and generates an understandable anxiety. The problem deserves to be addressed seriously and imaginatively. Why
adults fail to prevent young people drinking to kill?
There are several possible answers:
Why not truly care about them and say what they think should be equivalent to educate (which is false: to educate is to help grow, not distantly articulate what is right and what is wrong, and above do with anger or disappointment).
they know not to deal with the boys when they start to become adults (perhaps because they did not find for themselves the answers you guys are looking for and often ordered with a desperation that shakes everything in its path).
For more
who say we should not take more they do it themselves (just the way that many adults today say with indignation "the kids do not read", forgetting that never see them with a book in hand) .
Because the complexity of the issue is beyond the resources spontaneous paternity and asks well-intentioned efforts of communication and empathy with which these adults are not counted. Follow
here
begins:
As well as adults. Not so much for the taste but for the effect. There is some social hypocrisy on this issue, which prevents us from seeing clearly that alcohol "sticks" and that that is its success. It's a drug, a legal drug, but a drug. And even more: a drug charming, sensational, socializing, fun, accessible, inexpensive, generally manageable. The kids drink to feel the freedom and relaxation as adults we like to feel the beer, wine, champagne or whiskey. The problem is that while adults can manage their consumption, because experience and maturity increases the capacity of self-knowledge and self-control, the boys did not correctly evaluate the hazards and can be damaged severely.
teenage alcohol consumption is one of the most disturbing to parents who love their children, an issue that takes away the sleep and generates an understandable anxiety. The problem deserves to be addressed seriously and imaginatively. Why
adults fail to prevent young people drinking to kill?
There are several possible answers:
Why not truly care about them and say what they think should be equivalent to educate (which is false: to educate is to help grow, not distantly articulate what is right and what is wrong, and above do with anger or disappointment).
they know not to deal with the boys when they start to become adults (perhaps because they did not find for themselves the answers you guys are looking for and often ordered with a desperation that shakes everything in its path).
For more
who say we should not take more they do it themselves (just the way that many adults today say with indignation "the kids do not read", forgetting that never see them with a book in hand) .
Because the complexity of the issue is beyond the resources spontaneous paternity and asks well-intentioned efforts of communication and empathy with which these adults are not counted. Follow
here
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Sympathy Messages Loss Of A Mother
"Messi" (my article on Yahoo)
begins:
Lio Messi is a great player, but also a symbol, a dream, a mythical character, a gnome player, a demigod embodied that captures the imagination and emotions of millions of people worldwide. Therefore, some reflections on the phenomenon:
* For Argentines, we feel ours is the proof that we can. If an Argentine can therefore also have another chance. The top talent globally admired athlete lifts the rod and also the possibilities of shared dreams and aspirations. The best thing can happen in Argentina. One need not be the first world, being here the first world can be at your feet. Yes, then we can make adjustments to the idea: it was in Argentina but in Barcelona where he developed such a talent, not the best but the best sports supreme, and so on. However, its value in aspiration and motivating accomplished is not discussed. Unless you think that the greatest figures, while we extol, depress us, discourages talented who realistically sees that he can never get that far. Is the double edge of the deities: motivate, but also destroy, obscure, heavy.
* not be the same passion if the character was not, well, charming. I refer not only to him who is humble and simple, but it has Pajarón face. They see his smile, his tenderness, as if, all shows that Messi is in a class of vulnerable normal. For that stresses its strength, because not accompanied by any sign of arrogance or conceit. We must be strong to have so much talent, much more for seats that level of global exposure, this demand for excellence in the most watched sport in the world. Not accompanied by any sign of arrogance or conceit: no superhero Messi contemptuous look, you look bungler. This mixture of weakness with superiority is what makes it so disarming and loveable.
* is a case where what dazzles is the simplicity. His game is clean, clear, direct. The effectiveness seems easy. His extreme speed is a gift, but seeing your game it seems basic and obvious. It is a nice metaphor to inspire other achievements, one that helps us to avoid the path of moonlighting and the complexity excessive. Messi plays easy, free. His mastery reveals almost no effort. This also creates the illusion that their achievements are not so, although any mortal knows that this is an illusory effect: the lightness does not happen as often as one wishes and requires innate gifts. (Something that happens when you go to dunk a basketball player, one feels that if he had the ball in his hand would do the same without problems, but was soon disappointed when they finally tried ...)
* Complete myth the story of his trip to Barcelona overcome the disease, support of parents, his persistence, subsequent appreciation, and successive thrashings become inexhaustible. Yours seems a "model case" for a future reader. The boy with the rebanca difficulties and ends up being king of all the guys. Messi is an idol because child focus to the World's Children, a sort of Peter Pan: the boy who managed to complete the greatest fantasy, the child still a child even though part of the adult world. Follow
here
begins:
Lio Messi is a great player, but also a symbol, a dream, a mythical character, a gnome player, a demigod embodied that captures the imagination and emotions of millions of people worldwide. Therefore, some reflections on the phenomenon:
* For Argentines, we feel ours is the proof that we can. If an Argentine can therefore also have another chance. The top talent globally admired athlete lifts the rod and also the possibilities of shared dreams and aspirations. The best thing can happen in Argentina. One need not be the first world, being here the first world can be at your feet. Yes, then we can make adjustments to the idea: it was in Argentina but in Barcelona where he developed such a talent, not the best but the best sports supreme, and so on. However, its value in aspiration and motivating accomplished is not discussed. Unless you think that the greatest figures, while we extol, depress us, discourages talented who realistically sees that he can never get that far. Is the double edge of the deities: motivate, but also destroy, obscure, heavy.
* not be the same passion if the character was not, well, charming. I refer not only to him who is humble and simple, but it has Pajarón face. They see his smile, his tenderness, as if, all shows that Messi is in a class of vulnerable normal. For that stresses its strength, because not accompanied by any sign of arrogance or conceit. We must be strong to have so much talent, much more for seats that level of global exposure, this demand for excellence in the most watched sport in the world. Not accompanied by any sign of arrogance or conceit: no superhero Messi contemptuous look, you look bungler. This mixture of weakness with superiority is what makes it so disarming and loveable.
* is a case where what dazzles is the simplicity. His game is clean, clear, direct. The effectiveness seems easy. His extreme speed is a gift, but seeing your game it seems basic and obvious. It is a nice metaphor to inspire other achievements, one that helps us to avoid the path of moonlighting and the complexity excessive. Messi plays easy, free. His mastery reveals almost no effort. This also creates the illusion that their achievements are not so, although any mortal knows that this is an illusory effect: the lightness does not happen as often as one wishes and requires innate gifts. (Something that happens when you go to dunk a basketball player, one feels that if he had the ball in his hand would do the same without problems, but was soon disappointed when they finally tried ...)
* Complete myth the story of his trip to Barcelona overcome the disease, support of parents, his persistence, subsequent appreciation, and successive thrashings become inexhaustible. Yours seems a "model case" for a future reader. The boy with the rebanca difficulties and ends up being king of all the guys. Messi is an idol because child focus to the World's Children, a sort of Peter Pan: the boy who managed to complete the greatest fantasy, the child still a child even though part of the adult world. Follow
here
Monday, February 21, 2011
Use Easycap Without The Multiviewer
new events and news on the blogg 2
GOOD AS ARE MADE ON ACCOUNT OF THE FACEBOOK PAGE WE Blogger publish posts POSTEAMSO IN THIS PLACE BUT IN ONE OF THOSE publications referred to the corner of Gothic as EuP RADIO PROGRAM IF THERE IS A RADIO PROGRAM MYSTERIES OF BLOOD ( http://radio-enigmas-de-sangre.blogspot.com/2011/02/cradle-of-filth-invoking-unclean-demo.html ) THE PROGRAM IS CALLED CORNER GOTHIC
RADIO IS AN AREA WHERE THE FOUNDER OF THIS BARIAL BLOGG of the phrase BY GENDER AND IF YOU PUT IN ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL AND ACCESSORIES ALL IN THE SAME WAY BUT MUSIC EXHIBITION OF THE BANDS THAT WANT TO BE KNOWN IN THIS HAMBITO NO MATTER GENDER THAT ARE KNOWN FOR BEING GOTHIC OR OTHERWISE ENTER THE NAME AND THE PORTAL BLOGG HACI WIRELESS IS UAN INVITATION TO ALL GROUPS THAT ARE NOT KNOWN AND ARE VERY NEW MATERIAL TO SEND YOUR EMAIL adrian.hirluzbele. 621@gmail.com PROGRAM TIMES EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM 6PM TO 8 PM TIME MEXICO PLEASE NOTE IF YOU LIVE IN MEXICO PLEASE SEND A MSG and put me TU PAIS TE DIRE TO HAPPEN THE HOURS PROGRAM.
AND NEW CONCERTS 2011 Muzzle
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GOOD AS ARE MADE ON ACCOUNT OF THE FACEBOOK PAGE WE Blogger publish posts POSTEAMSO IN THIS PLACE BUT IN ONE OF THOSE publications referred to the corner of Gothic as EuP RADIO PROGRAM IF THERE IS A RADIO PROGRAM MYSTERIES OF BLOOD ( http://radio-enigmas-de-sangre.blogspot.com/2011/02/cradle-of-filth-invoking-unclean-demo.html ) THE PROGRAM IS CALLED CORNER GOTHIC
RADIO IS AN AREA WHERE THE FOUNDER OF THIS BARIAL BLOGG of the phrase BY GENDER AND IF YOU PUT IN ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL AND ACCESSORIES ALL IN THE SAME WAY BUT MUSIC EXHIBITION OF THE BANDS THAT WANT TO BE KNOWN IN THIS HAMBITO NO MATTER GENDER THAT ARE KNOWN FOR BEING GOTHIC OR OTHERWISE ENTER THE NAME AND THE PORTAL BLOGG HACI WIRELESS IS UAN INVITATION TO ALL GROUPS THAT ARE NOT KNOWN AND ARE VERY NEW MATERIAL TO SEND YOUR EMAIL adrian.hirluzbele. 621@gmail.com PROGRAM TIMES EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM 6PM TO 8 PM TIME MEXICO PLEASE NOTE IF YOU LIVE IN MEXICO PLEASE SEND A MSG and put me TU PAIS TE DIRE TO HAPPEN THE HOURS PROGRAM.
AND NEW CONCERTS 2011 Muzzle
More news soon
Ultimate Soccer Pontiac
"The meaning of life" (Article mine in Yahoo)
begins:
By the mere fact of its existence, each person is around these fundamental questions: What
alive? Does it make sense to live? What's the point? Why did I come to world? "I came because I wanted to come or came because, because procreation is free? I have a mission, a particular role, a fate that came to meet, or am I the arbitrary result of nature, proceeds without knowing, without cause, by mere impulse to live? If there is a fixed meaning in my life, a destiny, what is? "I can know or I will do it without realizing it?
Does it matter what for a living or is a crazy question, unanswerable, that instead of helping to clarify the confusing things? How much should one have clarity regarding the meaning of existence? Is
live for something or live for nothing? Are the more meaningful lives easy to live the lives that lack it? What does it mean that life has no meaning? What you do not have to live, that one is traveling a bit like a zombie without being clear who you are, what they want and where is it going? Follow
here
begins:
By the mere fact of its existence, each person is around these fundamental questions: What
alive? Does it make sense to live? What's the point? Why did I come to world? "I came because I wanted to come or came because, because procreation is free? I have a mission, a particular role, a fate that came to meet, or am I the arbitrary result of nature, proceeds without knowing, without cause, by mere impulse to live? If there is a fixed meaning in my life, a destiny, what is? "I can know or I will do it without realizing it?
Does it matter what for a living or is a crazy question, unanswerable, that instead of helping to clarify the confusing things? How much should one have clarity regarding the meaning of existence? Is
live for something or live for nothing? Are the more meaningful lives easy to live the lives that lack it? What does it mean that life has no meaning? What you do not have to live, that one is traveling a bit like a zombie without being clear who you are, what they want and where is it going? Follow
here
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Sample- Excuse Letter
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Dutch Invitation Etiquette
remembering a. ........ GUATAVO Adolfo Becquer 17-FEB-1836
WELL THANKS TO ALL FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE CORNER OF GOTHIC BLOGG is gratifying that ONE YEAR WITH YOU AND THE NEXT MONDAY 21-FEBRERO will post the video where you send us your material while FORWARD WITH THE DUTY!! ATTE
BARIAL And NEMEXIS
DAY BUT TODAY AS OF 1836 BORN ...
GABEACQUER
Gustavo Adolfo Dominguez Bastida (Seville, February 17, 1836 - Madrid, December 22, 1870), better known as Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, was a English poet and storyteller, part of the Romantic movement, although he wrote in a stage belonging to literary realism. As a late Romantic, has also been associated with post-Romantic movement. Although it was moderately well known during his lifetime, began to gain prestige when they die they published many of his works.
His best known works are his Rhymes and Legends. The poems and stories in this collection are essential for the study of English literature, and are widely recognized for its subsequent influence.
When writing Becquer is booming the Realism, when other authors ascribed this trend ( Campoamor, Tamayo y Baus , Echegaray ) share public favor. Poetry is tailor-made triumph of bourgeois society that will consolidate the Restoration , and is prosaic, pompous and falsely transcendent. But a significant portion of lyrical refused to join that trend, and were also empty rhetoric of lyric poetry esproncediana, the heyday of romantic, yet were generally cultivated taste in authors like José Zorrilla . The Romantic attracts them is not the French or English origin, but German, especially the Heine, who read in French translation, especially of Gérard de Nerval - or English-to Eulogio Florentino Sanz, a friend of Becquer. These authors make the environment prebecqueriano: Augusto Ferran , Dacarrete and Ángel María José María Larrea . All these poets sought an intimate lyricism, simple and frugal way of ornament, restrained in the best sense to show through the deep feeling of the poet. It is a lyric not declamatory, but to say in his ear. Becquer as dibujanteDesde
child was surrounded by paintings and drawings of his father that he also was interested in painting. He said that painting is a means of expression to the ineffable, surpassing writing.
Among his friends is always appreciated his wood artist and collaborated several times with his brother Valeriano. Emphasizes his great technique and reflects your inner world. Life and death are intertwined in most of his drawings of his series Les morts pour rire. Bizarreries. Drawn scenes provoke laughter, laughing at death.
also made drawings wherein represents their imaginary worlds reflected in Rhymes and Legends.
Julia Espin also covers much of the pictorial work of Becquer, reflecting it in different situations.
NOTE:
A GIFT FOR YOU THIS FIRST ANNIVERSARY
TARINGA Hise A TICKET IN THE DRAWER OF LITERATURE AYI find works of several writers SOLO DEN CLICK ON DRAWER AND WOULD APPEAR AND IS PERMANENTLY PAG
WELL THANKS TO ALL FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE CORNER OF GOTHIC BLOGG is gratifying that ONE YEAR WITH YOU AND THE NEXT MONDAY 21-FEBRERO will post the video where you send us your material while FORWARD WITH THE DUTY!! ATTE
BARIAL And NEMEXIS
DAY BUT TODAY AS OF 1836 BORN ...
GABEACQUER
Gustavo Adolfo Dominguez Bastida (Seville, February 17, 1836 - Madrid, December 22, 1870), better known as Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, was a English poet and storyteller, part of the Romantic movement, although he wrote in a stage belonging to literary realism. As a late Romantic, has also been associated with post-Romantic movement. Although it was moderately well known during his lifetime, began to gain prestige when they die they published many of his works.
His best known works are his Rhymes and Legends. The poems and stories in this collection are essential for the study of English literature, and are widely recognized for its subsequent influence.
When writing Becquer is booming the Realism, when other authors ascribed this trend ( Campoamor, Tamayo y Baus , Echegaray ) share public favor. Poetry is tailor-made triumph of bourgeois society that will consolidate the Restoration , and is prosaic, pompous and falsely transcendent. But a significant portion of lyrical refused to join that trend, and were also empty rhetoric of lyric poetry esproncediana, the heyday of romantic, yet were generally cultivated taste in authors like José Zorrilla . The Romantic attracts them is not the French or English origin, but German, especially the Heine, who read in French translation, especially of Gérard de Nerval - or English-to Eulogio Florentino Sanz, a friend of Becquer. These authors make the environment prebecqueriano: Augusto Ferran , Dacarrete and Ángel María José María Larrea . All these poets sought an intimate lyricism, simple and frugal way of ornament, restrained in the best sense to show through the deep feeling of the poet. It is a lyric not declamatory, but to say in his ear. Becquer as dibujanteDesde
child was surrounded by paintings and drawings of his father that he also was interested in painting. He said that painting is a means of expression to the ineffable, surpassing writing.
Among his friends is always appreciated his wood artist and collaborated several times with his brother Valeriano. Emphasizes his great technique and reflects your inner world. Life and death are intertwined in most of his drawings of his series Les morts pour rire. Bizarreries. Drawn scenes provoke laughter, laughing at death.
also made drawings wherein represents their imaginary worlds reflected in Rhymes and Legends.
Julia Espin also covers much of the pictorial work of Becquer, reflecting it in different situations.
NOTE:
A GIFT FOR YOU THIS FIRST ANNIVERSARY
TARINGA Hise A TICKET IN THE DRAWER OF LITERATURE AYI find works of several writers SOLO DEN CLICK ON DRAWER AND WOULD APPEAR AND IS PERMANENTLY PAG
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Jobs In Canada For Backpackers
be close (my article on Yahoo)
begins:
What is intimacy? The closeness or intimacy is a really central to mental health and the possibility that a person feels that life is worth living. Irvin Yalom, American psychotherapist, author of many great books ("When Nietzsche wept", among others), explains that when a person arrived at the office of a psychologist do to despair, and this is one fundamental reason: the inability to live satisfying intimate relationships.
Intimacy "? Proximity, contact, affection, interest, love, warmth shared area, understanding, humor, spontaneity and authenticity. There are who we are and significant others, which are also those who are sharing our emotions.
is clearer to say "closeness" to say "privacy" is a more understandable and concrete, even if the same thing. The other end would become the solitude, that is, the experience of someone who is not in its presence near horizon that are interested in her or against the interest which she sits. Follow
here
begins:
What is intimacy? The closeness or intimacy is a really central to mental health and the possibility that a person feels that life is worth living. Irvin Yalom, American psychotherapist, author of many great books ("When Nietzsche wept", among others), explains that when a person arrived at the office of a psychologist do to despair, and this is one fundamental reason: the inability to live satisfying intimate relationships.
Intimacy "? Proximity, contact, affection, interest, love, warmth shared area, understanding, humor, spontaneity and authenticity. There are who we are and significant others, which are also those who are sharing our emotions.
is clearer to say "closeness" to say "privacy" is a more understandable and concrete, even if the same thing. The other end would become the solitude, that is, the experience of someone who is not in its presence near horizon that are interested in her or against the interest which she sits. Follow
here
Monday, February 14, 2011
Writing That Says Happy Birthday
THE REAL OBSTACLES TO LATIN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT
The same article, now in Castilian.
THE REAL OBSTACLES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF LATIN AMERICA
By Oscar Arias (Costa Rica)
served as President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica from '86 until '90 and then from 2006 to 2010. Arias won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987.
Nearly two centuries after the Latin American countries gained their independence from Spain and Portugal, none of them are really developed. Where went wrong, what went wrong? What countries in other regions, perhaps most backward relatively quickly achieved the results that Latin American countries have aspired for so long?
Many in the region, answer these questions with conspiracy theories and self-pitying excuses. Blamed the English empire, for taking the riches of the region in the past, or the U.S. empire, which supposedly is bleeding today. They say the international financial institutions have conspired to keep the backward region, that globalization was designed deliberately to prevent their development. In short, blame underdevelopment of others instead of Latin America itself.
The truth is that much time has passed since the independence of Latin America that has lost the right to use others as an excuse for their own failures.
fact, several foreign powers have influenced the fate of the region. But that is true in all regions of the world. Latin American countries are not the only ones who have faced an uphill battle in history.
Latin American nations started the race on equal terms, or even better, than those in other places. Yes, we are the ones who stayed behind.
When Harvard opened its doors in 1636, there were already well established universities in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru.
In 1820, the GDP of Latin America as a whole was 12.5% \u200b\u200bhigher than the U.S.. Today, with a population of about 560 million, some 250 million more than the United States, the region has a GDP that is only 29% of its northern neighbor. Latin America gained its independence 150 years earlier than do countries like South Korea and Singapore today, despite past and colonies also exploited despite lacking significant natural resources per capita income countries is several times higher.
One of the consequences of Latin America's reluctance to fully address such comparisons has been the disconnect between rhetoric and reality. Tired of empty words and meaningless promises, people in the region are disillusioned with politics in general. Recognize their own share of responsibility for the situation, however, could be the beginning of the rewriting of history. The key is to accept that four regional cultural features are the obstacles to be overcome for the successful development: resistance to change, lack of confidence, the fragile democratic norms, and a penchant for militarism. LOOKING BACK
Latin Americans endlessly glorify their past, which makes it almost impossible to advocate for change. Instead of a culture of improvement, have promoted a culture of preservation of the status quo. Constant, patient reform the only type compatible with democratic stability is unsatisfactory, the region accept what exists, while occasionally yearn for dramatic revolutions that promise abundant treasures only a short distance from the insurgency.
Such an attitude would be easier to understand in Canada or Norway, which have achieved enviable levels of human development. But what merits such high Guatemala and Nicaragua have in their stories? In these cases, the conservative impulse probably comes not only from a desire to preserve the status quo, but more so by the desire to protect established privileges and a general fear of the unknown. Latin Americans remain strong and still in pain and suffering, preferring a safe present to an uncertain future. Some of this is natural, and human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing, generating not only anxiety but also paralysis.
To make matters worse, political leaders rarely have the patience or the ability to direct his people carefully through the processes of reform. In a democracy, a leader must be the head that teaches anyone willing to answer questions and concerns and explain the need for the benefits of a new course.
But too often in Latin America, leaders are justified with a simple "because I said so".
This fits perfectly with the desire to protect the privileges set, a phenomenon visible, not only among the rich and powerful, but throughout society. Education unions decide by themselves, the number of teachers who should work and what to teach. Similarly with business owners and contractors in the private sector, which have always provided low-quality services for decades without fear of competition, thanks to perks and transactions illegal. And public officials are also still: the civil service reward those who do nothing but sit on their desks and say no.
This approach has many implications, especially when it comes to entrepreneurship. Latin America has much more business drivers. The region is suspicious of new ideas and lacks effective mechanisms to support innovative projects. Someone who wants to start a new company must start wading through the waves of the bureaucracy and arbitrary requirements.
entrepreneurs get a minimum of worship or cultural reinforcement, little legal protection and little academic support.
Universities, for their part, are not producing the kind of professional development required. Latin American graduates six social scientists in two in engineering and each of the exact sciences. Visit a college campus in Latin America is like traveling back to a time when there was the Berlin Wall, and Russia and China had not yet embraced capitalism.
Instead of giving students practical tools-such as language and technology skills, to help them succeed in a globalized world, many schools are dedicated to teaching authors read and repeated no doctrines in which nobody believes. For
that development occurs, this must change. Latin American countries must begin to reward innovators and creators.
Its universities should reform their academic years, investing in science and technology. It should reduce the regulatory burden, attract investment and promote the transfer of knowledge. In other words, they must understand that pragmatism is the new universal ideology, as Deng Xiaoping once said, no matter if a cat is black or yellow, as long as it catches mice. DEVELOPMENT OF TRUST
The second obstacle is the lack of confidence. No development project can thrive in a place where there is distrust, success the other is viewed with suspicion, and the creativity and momentum are satisfied with caution. The American people are among the most distrustful of the world.
World Values \u200b\u200bSurvey asked the question, "most people can be trusted?" In 2000, 55 to 65% of respondents in four Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, said yes, and only 16% of respondents in Latin America did, and only 3%, made in Brazil.
Latin Americans doubt the true intentions of all who cross paths, politicians or their friends. We believe everyone has a secret agenda and it is better do not get too involved in collective efforts. We are captives of the giant prisoner's dilemma, in which each person contributes as little as possible to the common interest.
In a globalized world, however, trust is indispensable. Countries with more confidence are better equipped for developing countries because its citizens can base their actions on a reasonable expectation of how others behave. Legal uncertainty is a particular problem. With alarming frequency, citizens of Latin America do not know the consequences of their actions or how the state will react to their projects.
In some countries, firms are expropriated without justification any, permits are revoked by political pressure, the judgments are against the law and the legal situation is so volatile that impedes the achievement of long-term goals. As former Ecuadorian President Osvaldo Hurtado said recently in The American Interest, "do not trust the American legal institutions and government or courts or lawyers. Indeed, the ingrained habit of flouting the law has been the most powerful influence on the continent that for centuries many laws enacted to regulate economic, social and political. For the Latin American legislatures have probably been more laws in the last 175 years than their counterparts anywhere in the world, however, never so many laws have been ignored by so many for so long.
is said that legal security is the protection of confidence. For economic development to succeed, Latin America must be able to trust that their states to act reasonably and predictably. Must be able to anticipate the legal consequences of his actions. They must be able to trust others, too, act according to the rules of the game.
COMMITMENT TO DEMOCRACY
The third obstacle blocking the development is the fragility of the commitment of the region with democracy. Surely, with the exception of Cuba, the region now has to be entirely democratic. After centuries of civil wars, coups and dictatorship, democracy has indeed made significant progress in recent decades. But the truth is that his victory is incomplete. Despite carefully crafted constitutions, proclamations and treaties great high view, Latin America still has an attraction to authoritarianism.
Fidel and Raul Castro in Cuba behave like traditional Latin American caudillo, but so do Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, they tend to use democratic processes and structures to subvert their own systems of democratic countries. Once elected, they interpret their mandate as carte blanche to do whatever they want, including persecution of their opponents, the subject of the media, and try to twist the system to maintain power at all costs. Many citizens, for their part, are happy and allow these leaders continue, maybe see their messianism and demagoguery as the output of existing regional labyrinth underdevelopment.
If Latin American democracies do not fulfill their promises and economic policies, if the hopes of their citizens remain a dream deferred, then the authoritarianism will rise again. The way to prevent this is to show the people that democracy works, you really can build a more prosperous and equitable society. Beyond the political sclerosis, increasingly sensitive to demands of citizens, and generating tax revenue or taxes on the rich are all essential steps to move towards a true culture of freedom and progress.
A CULTURE OF PEACE
The increase in revenues is necessary but not sufficient. These funds should also be spent wisely, to promote human development. In Latin American countries a lot has happened in the past, carrying huge debts, but often have squandered their resources in inappropriate priorities. It has been lavished on their armies, money that should have been lavished on their children.
Apart from Colombia, no Latin American country faces an imminent military conflict. And yet, every year, the region spends over 60 billion dollars in weapons and soldiers, twice what it spent only five years ago. Why? Who's attacking whom? The enemies of the people are hunger, ignorance, inequality, disease, crime and environmental degradation. They are internal, and can be defeated only through an intelligent policy, not an arms race. Costa Rica was
the first country in history to abolish its army and make peace with the world. His children have never known what it is military service. They have never seen the shadow of a helicopter gunship or tank tracks. And since the abolition of its armed forces 62 years ago, Costa Rica has never had a coup. I would think that Latin America may follow in the footsteps of Costa Rica, but I know that this utopia is not possible in my life.
I also know, however, that a responsible phased reduction in military spending is not only possible but also necessary.
We owe the victims of dictatorships during the century XX wrote with his own blood the saddest pages in the history of Latin America. We owe it to survivors of oppression and torture. We owe it to those who saw their worst fears realized in the presence of a soldier. Abandoning this
martial culture is also essential, because the increased presence of soldiers in our villages and cities promoting a combative attitude is not conducive. It is suggested that problems are best solved by fighting an enemy, rather than build solidarity with friends and neighbors. It teaches that the gains are achieved with arms, shouting and threats instead of words, respect and tolerance. The culture of militarism the region is a regressive and destructive force that must be replaced by a culture of peace.
Latin Americans should look in the mirror and face the reality that many of our problems lie not in our stars but in ourselves. We must lose the fear of change.
We must embrace entrepreneurship. We must learn to trust. We must strengthen our commitment to democracy and the rule of law. And you have to leave the military practices that continue to rub salt in the wounds of our past. Only then will we come at last to achieve the development that we have long been sought
The same article, now in Castilian.
THE REAL OBSTACLES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF LATIN AMERICA
By Oscar Arias (Costa Rica)
served as President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica from '86 until '90 and then from 2006 to 2010. Arias won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987.
Nearly two centuries after the Latin American countries gained their independence from Spain and Portugal, none of them are really developed. Where went wrong, what went wrong? What countries in other regions, perhaps most backward relatively quickly achieved the results that Latin American countries have aspired for so long?
Many in the region, answer these questions with conspiracy theories and self-pitying excuses. Blamed the English empire, for taking the riches of the region in the past, or the U.S. empire, which supposedly is bleeding today. They say the international financial institutions have conspired to keep the backward region, that globalization was designed deliberately to prevent their development. In short, blame underdevelopment of others instead of Latin America itself.
The truth is that much time has passed since the independence of Latin America that has lost the right to use others as an excuse for their own failures.
fact, several foreign powers have influenced the fate of the region. But that is true in all regions of the world. Latin American countries are not the only ones who have faced an uphill battle in history.
Latin American nations started the race on equal terms, or even better, than those in other places. Yes, we are the ones who stayed behind.
When Harvard opened its doors in 1636, there were already well established universities in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru.
In 1820, the GDP of Latin America as a whole was 12.5% \u200b\u200bhigher than the U.S.. Today, with a population of about 560 million, some 250 million more than the United States, the region has a GDP that is only 29% of its northern neighbor. Latin America gained its independence 150 years earlier than do countries like South Korea and Singapore today, despite past and colonies also exploited despite lacking significant natural resources per capita income countries is several times higher.
One of the consequences of Latin America's reluctance to fully address such comparisons has been the disconnect between rhetoric and reality. Tired of empty words and meaningless promises, people in the region are disillusioned with politics in general. Recognize their own share of responsibility for the situation, however, could be the beginning of the rewriting of history. The key is to accept that four regional cultural features are the obstacles to be overcome for the successful development: resistance to change, lack of confidence, the fragile democratic norms, and a penchant for militarism. LOOKING BACK
Latin Americans endlessly glorify their past, which makes it almost impossible to advocate for change. Instead of a culture of improvement, have promoted a culture of preservation of the status quo. Constant, patient reform the only type compatible with democratic stability is unsatisfactory, the region accept what exists, while occasionally yearn for dramatic revolutions that promise abundant treasures only a short distance from the insurgency.
Such an attitude would be easier to understand in Canada or Norway, which have achieved enviable levels of human development. But what merits such high Guatemala and Nicaragua have in their stories? In these cases, the conservative impulse probably comes not only from a desire to preserve the status quo, but more so by the desire to protect established privileges and a general fear of the unknown. Latin Americans remain strong and still in pain and suffering, preferring a safe present to an uncertain future. Some of this is natural, and human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing, generating not only anxiety but also paralysis.
To make matters worse, political leaders rarely have the patience or the ability to direct his people carefully through the processes of reform. In a democracy, a leader must be the head that teaches anyone willing to answer questions and concerns and explain the need for the benefits of a new course.
But too often in Latin America, leaders are justified with a simple "because I said so".
This fits perfectly with the desire to protect the privileges set, a phenomenon visible, not only among the rich and powerful, but throughout society. Education unions decide by themselves, the number of teachers who should work and what to teach. Similarly with business owners and contractors in the private sector, which have always provided low-quality services for decades without fear of competition, thanks to perks and transactions illegal. And public officials are also still: the civil service reward those who do nothing but sit on their desks and say no.
This approach has many implications, especially when it comes to entrepreneurship. Latin America has much more business drivers. The region is suspicious of new ideas and lacks effective mechanisms to support innovative projects. Someone who wants to start a new company must start wading through the waves of the bureaucracy and arbitrary requirements.
entrepreneurs get a minimum of worship or cultural reinforcement, little legal protection and little academic support.
Universities, for their part, are not producing the kind of professional development required. Latin American graduates six social scientists in two in engineering and each of the exact sciences. Visit a college campus in Latin America is like traveling back to a time when there was the Berlin Wall, and Russia and China had not yet embraced capitalism.
Instead of giving students practical tools-such as language and technology skills, to help them succeed in a globalized world, many schools are dedicated to teaching authors read and repeated no doctrines in which nobody believes. For
that development occurs, this must change. Latin American countries must begin to reward innovators and creators.
Its universities should reform their academic years, investing in science and technology. It should reduce the regulatory burden, attract investment and promote the transfer of knowledge. In other words, they must understand that pragmatism is the new universal ideology, as Deng Xiaoping once said, no matter if a cat is black or yellow, as long as it catches mice. DEVELOPMENT OF TRUST
The second obstacle is the lack of confidence. No development project can thrive in a place where there is distrust, success the other is viewed with suspicion, and the creativity and momentum are satisfied with caution. The American people are among the most distrustful of the world.
World Values \u200b\u200bSurvey asked the question, "most people can be trusted?" In 2000, 55 to 65% of respondents in four Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, said yes, and only 16% of respondents in Latin America did, and only 3%, made in Brazil.
Latin Americans doubt the true intentions of all who cross paths, politicians or their friends. We believe everyone has a secret agenda and it is better do not get too involved in collective efforts. We are captives of the giant prisoner's dilemma, in which each person contributes as little as possible to the common interest.
In a globalized world, however, trust is indispensable. Countries with more confidence are better equipped for developing countries because its citizens can base their actions on a reasonable expectation of how others behave. Legal uncertainty is a particular problem. With alarming frequency, citizens of Latin America do not know the consequences of their actions or how the state will react to their projects.
In some countries, firms are expropriated without justification any, permits are revoked by political pressure, the judgments are against the law and the legal situation is so volatile that impedes the achievement of long-term goals. As former Ecuadorian President Osvaldo Hurtado said recently in The American Interest, "do not trust the American legal institutions and government or courts or lawyers. Indeed, the ingrained habit of flouting the law has been the most powerful influence on the continent that for centuries many laws enacted to regulate economic, social and political. For the Latin American legislatures have probably been more laws in the last 175 years than their counterparts anywhere in the world, however, never so many laws have been ignored by so many for so long.
is said that legal security is the protection of confidence. For economic development to succeed, Latin America must be able to trust that their states to act reasonably and predictably. Must be able to anticipate the legal consequences of his actions. They must be able to trust others, too, act according to the rules of the game.
COMMITMENT TO DEMOCRACY
The third obstacle blocking the development is the fragility of the commitment of the region with democracy. Surely, with the exception of Cuba, the region now has to be entirely democratic. After centuries of civil wars, coups and dictatorship, democracy has indeed made significant progress in recent decades. But the truth is that his victory is incomplete. Despite carefully crafted constitutions, proclamations and treaties great high view, Latin America still has an attraction to authoritarianism.
Fidel and Raul Castro in Cuba behave like traditional Latin American caudillo, but so do Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, they tend to use democratic processes and structures to subvert their own systems of democratic countries. Once elected, they interpret their mandate as carte blanche to do whatever they want, including persecution of their opponents, the subject of the media, and try to twist the system to maintain power at all costs. Many citizens, for their part, are happy and allow these leaders continue, maybe see their messianism and demagoguery as the output of existing regional labyrinth underdevelopment.
If Latin American democracies do not fulfill their promises and economic policies, if the hopes of their citizens remain a dream deferred, then the authoritarianism will rise again. The way to prevent this is to show the people that democracy works, you really can build a more prosperous and equitable society. Beyond the political sclerosis, increasingly sensitive to demands of citizens, and generating tax revenue or taxes on the rich are all essential steps to move towards a true culture of freedom and progress.
A CULTURE OF PEACE
The increase in revenues is necessary but not sufficient. These funds should also be spent wisely, to promote human development. In Latin American countries a lot has happened in the past, carrying huge debts, but often have squandered their resources in inappropriate priorities. It has been lavished on their armies, money that should have been lavished on their children.
Apart from Colombia, no Latin American country faces an imminent military conflict. And yet, every year, the region spends over 60 billion dollars in weapons and soldiers, twice what it spent only five years ago. Why? Who's attacking whom? The enemies of the people are hunger, ignorance, inequality, disease, crime and environmental degradation. They are internal, and can be defeated only through an intelligent policy, not an arms race. Costa Rica was
the first country in history to abolish its army and make peace with the world. His children have never known what it is military service. They have never seen the shadow of a helicopter gunship or tank tracks. And since the abolition of its armed forces 62 years ago, Costa Rica has never had a coup. I would think that Latin America may follow in the footsteps of Costa Rica, but I know that this utopia is not possible in my life.
I also know, however, that a responsible phased reduction in military spending is not only possible but also necessary.
We owe the victims of dictatorships during the century XX wrote with his own blood the saddest pages in the history of Latin America. We owe it to survivors of oppression and torture. We owe it to those who saw their worst fears realized in the presence of a soldier. Abandoning this
martial culture is also essential, because the increased presence of soldiers in our villages and cities promoting a combative attitude is not conducive. It is suggested that problems are best solved by fighting an enemy, rather than build solidarity with friends and neighbors. It teaches that the gains are achieved with arms, shouting and threats instead of words, respect and tolerance. The culture of militarism the region is a regressive and destructive force that must be replaced by a culture of peace.
Latin Americans should look in the mirror and face the reality that many of our problems lie not in our stars but in ourselves. We must lose the fear of change.
We must embrace entrepreneurship. We must learn to trust. We must strengthen our commitment to democracy and the rule of law. And you have to leave the military practices that continue to rub salt in the wounds of our past. Only then will we come at last to achieve the development that we have long been sought
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Great article Oscar Arias, former president of Costa Rica, on the challenges facing Latin American cultural development!
I can not translate, I have no time. If someone does drink and put it also in Castilian. Those who can read it, is very very good ... It was published in the January / February, "Foreign Affairs".
Culture Matters
The Real Obstacles to Latin American Development
Oscar Arias
Served as President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and 2006 to 2010. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987. Nearly two
Centuries after the Countries of Latin America Gained Their Independence from Spain and Portugal, Not One of Them is Truly developer. Where have They Gone Wrong? Why Countries Have in other regions, once far behind, managed to achieve relatively quickly results that Latin American countries have aspired to for so long?
Many in the region respond to such questions with conspiracy theories or self-pitying excuses. They blame the English empire, for making off with the region's riches in the past, or the American empire, which supposedly continues to bleed it dry today. They say that international financial institutions have schemed to hold the region back, that globalization was deliberately designed to keep it in the shadows. In short, they place the blame for underdevelopment anywhere but on Latin America itself.
The truth is that so much time has passed since independence that Latin Americans have lost the right to use others as the excuse for their own failures. Various outside powers have indeed affected the region's fate. But that is true for every region of the world. The countries of Latin America are not the only ones to have faced an uphill battle in history. Latin American nations began this race with conditions equal to, or even better than, those prevailing elsewhere. They -- we -- are the ones who fell behind.
When Harvard University opened its doors in 1636, there were already well-established universities in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. In 1820, the GDP of Latin America as a whole was 12.5 percent greater than that of the United States. Today, with a population of about 560 million -- some 250 million more than the United States -- the region has a GDP that is only 29 percent of its northern neighbor's. Latin America won its independence 150 years before countries such as South Korea and Singapore did; today, despite their past as exploited colonies and their lack of significant natural resources, those countries' per capita income is several times greater.
One consequence of Latin America's reluctance to face such comparisons squarely has been a disconnect between discourse and reality. Tired of empty words and meaningless promises, people in the region are disillusioned with politics in general. Recognizing their own share of responsibility for the situation, however, could be the start of rewriting history. The key is accepting that four regional cultural traits are obstacles that need to be overcome for development to succeed: resistance to change, absence of confidence, fragile democratic norms, and a soft spot for militarism.
LOOKING BACKWARD
Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change. Instead of a culture of improvement, they have promoted a culture of preservation of the status quo. Constant, patient reform -- the only kind of reform compatible with democratic stability -- is unsatisfying; the region accepts what exists, while occasionally pining for dramatic revolutions that promise abundant treasures only one insurrection away.
Such an attitude would be easier to understand in Canada or Norway, which have achieved enviable levels of human development. But what have Guatemala or Nicaragua to prize so highly in their pasts? In cases such as these, the conservative impulse probably springs not just from a desire to preserve the status quo but even more from a desire to protect established privileges and a general fear of the unknown. Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is only natural, entirely human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing; it generates not only anxiety but also paralysis.
To make matters worse, the region's political leaders rarely have the patience or the skill to walk their people carefully through the processes of reform. In a democracy, a leader must be the head teacher, someone eager to respond to doubts and questions and explain the need for and the benefits of a new course. But too often in Latin America, leaders justify themselves with a simple "because I say so."
This dovetails neatly with the desire to protect established privileges -- a phenomenon visible not only among the rich and powerful but throughout society. Teachers' unions decide for themselves how much teachers should work and what they should teach. Something similar happens with business owners and contractors in the private sector, who have provided low-quality services for decades with no fear of competition, thanks to sinecures and illicit transactions. And public officials are also immobile: the civil services reward those who do no more than sit at their desks and say no.
This attitude has many consequences, particularly when it comes to entrepreneurship. Latin America has vastly more controllers than entrepreneurs. The region is suspicious of new ideas and lacks effective mechanisms to support innovative projects. Someone seeking to start a new business must begin by wading through waves of bureaucracy and arbitrary requirements. Entrepreneurs get minimal praise or cultural reinforcement, little legal protection, and scarce academic support.
The region's universities, meanwhile, are not turning out the kinds of professionals that development demands. Latin America graduates six professionals in the social sciences for every two in engineering and every one in the exact sciences. Visiting a Latin American university campus is like traveling to the past, to an era in which the Berlin Wall had yet to fall and Russia and China had yet to embrace capitalism. Instead of giving students practical tools -- such as technological and language skills -- to help them succeed in a globalized world, many schools devote themselves to teaching authors no one reads and repeating doctrines in which no one believes.
For development to occur, this has to change. Latin American countries must begin to reward innovators and creators. Their universities must reform their academic offerings and invest in science and technology. They must reduce burdensome regulations, attract investment, and promote the transfer of knowledge. In other words, they must understand that pragmatism is the new universal ideology -- that, as Deng Xiaoping once said, it does not matter whether a cat is black or yellow, as long as it catches mice.
DEVELOPING TRUST
The second obstacle is the absence of confidence. No development project can prosper in a place where suspicion reigns, the success of others is viewed with misgiving, and creativity and drive are met with wariness. Latin Americans are among the most distrustful people in the world. The World Values Survey asks the question, "Can most people be trusted?" In the year 2000, 55-65 percent of those people surveyed in four Nordic countries -- Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden -- said yes; only 16 percent of those people surveyed in Latin America did, and only three percent did in Brazil.
Latin Americans doubt the true intentions of all those who cross their paths, from politicians to friends. We believe that everyone has a secret agenda and that it is better not to get too involved in collective efforts. We are captives to a gigantic prisoner's dilemma in which each person contributes as little as possible to the common interest.
In a globalized world, however, trust is indispensable. The countries most ready to trust are the countries most ready to develop, because their citizens can base their actions on a reasonable expectation of how others will behave. Legal insecurity is a special problem. With alarming frequency, citizens of Latin American countries do not know what the legal consequences of their actions will be or how the state will react to their projects. In some countries, businesses are expropriated without any justification, permits are revoked because of political pressure, judicial verdicts fly in the face of the law, and the legal situation is so volatile that it impedes the attainment of long-term goals. As former Ecuadorian President Osvaldo Hurtado recently noted in The American Interest,
Latin Americans do not trust legal institutions and actors . . . whether government courts or private lawyers. Indeed, the deep-rooted, centuries-old custom of flouting the law has been a more powerful influence on the continent than the countless laws passed over the centuries to regulate economic, social and political relations. Latin American legislatures have probably passed more laws over the past 175 years than their counterparts anywhere on the planet, yet never have so many laws been ignored by so many for so long.
It has been said that legal security is the protection of trust. For economic development to succeed, Latin Americans must be able to trust their states to act reasonably and predictably. They must be able to anticipate the legal consequences of their actions. And they must be able to trust that others, too, will act in accordance with the rules of the game.
COMMITMENT TO DEMOCRACY
The third obstacle blocking development is the fragility of the Latin American commitment to democracy. To be sure, with the sole exception of Cuba, by some measures the region would be counted as entirely democratic today. After centuries of civil wars, coups, and dictatorships, democracy has indeed made remarkable strides in recent decades. But the truth is that its victory is incomplete. Despite carefully crafted constitutions, grand proclamations, and high-minded treaties, Latin America still has a soft spot for authoritarianism.
Fidel and Raúl Castro in Cuba behave like traditional Latin American caudillos -- but so do Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, who have used democratic processes and structures to subvert their countries' own democratic systems. Once elected, they interpreted their mandates as carte blanche to do whatever they wanted, including persecuting their opponents, shackling the media, and trying to twist the system so as to stay in power at all costs. Too many of their countries' citizens, meanwhile, are content to allow these leaders to proceed, perhaps seeing their messianism and demagoguery as the exit from the prevailing regional labyrinth of underdevelopment.
If Latin American democracies do not live up to their political and economic promise, if their citizens' hopes remain a dream deferred, then authoritarianism will rise again. The way to prevent that is to show the public that democracy works, that it truly can build more prosperous and equitable societies. Moving beyond political sclerosis, becoming more responsive to citizens' demands, and generating fiscal resources by taxing the wealthy are all essential steps to take in moving toward a true culture of liberty and progress.
A CULTURE OF PEACE
Increasing public income is necessary, but it is not sufficient. Those funds must also be spent wisely, to promote human development. Latin American countries have spent a lot in the past, running up immense debts, but they have often squandered their resources on inappropriate priorities. They have lavished on their armies the money that they should have lavished on their children.
Aside from Colombia, no country in Latin America faces an ongoing or imminent armed conflict. And yet each year, the region spends $60 billion on arms and soldiers -- double what it spent just five years ago. Why? Who is going to attack whom? The enemies of the people in the region are hunger, ignorance, inequality, disease, crime, and environmental degradation. They are internal, and they can be defeated only through smart public policy, not a new arms race.
Costa Rica was the first country in history to abolish its army and declare peace with the world. Its children have never known military service. They have never seen the shadow of an armored helicopter or the tracks of a tank. And since the abolition of its armed forces 62 years ago, Costa Rica has never suffered a coup. I would like to think that all of Latin America might follow in Costa Rica's footsteps, but I know that this utopia will not be possible in my lifetime. I also know, however, that a responsible and gradual reduction of military spending is not only possible but also imperative. We owe it to the victims of dictatorships, who during the twentieth century wrote with their own blood the saddest pages in Latin American history. We owe it to the survivors of oppression and torture. We owe it to those who saw their worst fears realized in the presence of a soldier.
Abandoning this martial culture is also essential because the increased presence of soldiers in our towns and cities promotes a combative attitude that does not favor development. It suggests that problems are best solved by fighting an enemy, rather than building in solidarity with friends and neighbors. It teaches that conquests are attained with weapons, shouts, and threats, as opposed to words, respect, and tolerance. The militarism of the region's culture is a regressive and destructive force, one that needs to be replaced with a culture of peace.
Latin Americans must look in the mirror and confront the reality that many of our problems lie not in our stars but in ourselves. We must lose our fear of change. We must embrace entrepreneurship. We must learn to trust. We must strengthen our commitment to democracy and the rule of law. And we must abandon the military practices that continue to rub salt into the wounds of our past. Only then will the region finally attain the development it has so long sought.
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I can not translate, I have no time. If someone does drink and put it also in Castilian. Those who can read it, is very very good ... It was published in the January / February, "Foreign Affairs".
Culture Matters
The Real Obstacles to Latin American Development
Oscar Arias
Served as President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and 2006 to 2010. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987. Nearly two
Centuries after the Countries of Latin America Gained Their Independence from Spain and Portugal, Not One of Them is Truly developer. Where have They Gone Wrong? Why Countries Have in other regions, once far behind, managed to achieve relatively quickly results that Latin American countries have aspired to for so long?
Many in the region respond to such questions with conspiracy theories or self-pitying excuses. They blame the English empire, for making off with the region's riches in the past, or the American empire, which supposedly continues to bleed it dry today. They say that international financial institutions have schemed to hold the region back, that globalization was deliberately designed to keep it in the shadows. In short, they place the blame for underdevelopment anywhere but on Latin America itself.
The truth is that so much time has passed since independence that Latin Americans have lost the right to use others as the excuse for their own failures. Various outside powers have indeed affected the region's fate. But that is true for every region of the world. The countries of Latin America are not the only ones to have faced an uphill battle in history. Latin American nations began this race with conditions equal to, or even better than, those prevailing elsewhere. They -- we -- are the ones who fell behind.
When Harvard University opened its doors in 1636, there were already well-established universities in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. In 1820, the GDP of Latin America as a whole was 12.5 percent greater than that of the United States. Today, with a population of about 560 million -- some 250 million more than the United States -- the region has a GDP that is only 29 percent of its northern neighbor's. Latin America won its independence 150 years before countries such as South Korea and Singapore did; today, despite their past as exploited colonies and their lack of significant natural resources, those countries' per capita income is several times greater.
One consequence of Latin America's reluctance to face such comparisons squarely has been a disconnect between discourse and reality. Tired of empty words and meaningless promises, people in the region are disillusioned with politics in general. Recognizing their own share of responsibility for the situation, however, could be the start of rewriting history. The key is accepting that four regional cultural traits are obstacles that need to be overcome for development to succeed: resistance to change, absence of confidence, fragile democratic norms, and a soft spot for militarism.
LOOKING BACKWARD
Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change. Instead of a culture of improvement, they have promoted a culture of preservation of the status quo. Constant, patient reform -- the only kind of reform compatible with democratic stability -- is unsatisfying; the region accepts what exists, while occasionally pining for dramatic revolutions that promise abundant treasures only one insurrection away.
Such an attitude would be easier to understand in Canada or Norway, which have achieved enviable levels of human development. But what have Guatemala or Nicaragua to prize so highly in their pasts? In cases such as these, the conservative impulse probably springs not just from a desire to preserve the status quo but even more from a desire to protect established privileges and a general fear of the unknown. Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is only natural, entirely human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing; it generates not only anxiety but also paralysis.
To make matters worse, the region's political leaders rarely have the patience or the skill to walk their people carefully through the processes of reform. In a democracy, a leader must be the head teacher, someone eager to respond to doubts and questions and explain the need for and the benefits of a new course. But too often in Latin America, leaders justify themselves with a simple "because I say so."
This dovetails neatly with the desire to protect established privileges -- a phenomenon visible not only among the rich and powerful but throughout society. Teachers' unions decide for themselves how much teachers should work and what they should teach. Something similar happens with business owners and contractors in the private sector, who have provided low-quality services for decades with no fear of competition, thanks to sinecures and illicit transactions. And public officials are also immobile: the civil services reward those who do no more than sit at their desks and say no.
This attitude has many consequences, particularly when it comes to entrepreneurship. Latin America has vastly more controllers than entrepreneurs. The region is suspicious of new ideas and lacks effective mechanisms to support innovative projects. Someone seeking to start a new business must begin by wading through waves of bureaucracy and arbitrary requirements. Entrepreneurs get minimal praise or cultural reinforcement, little legal protection, and scarce academic support.
The region's universities, meanwhile, are not turning out the kinds of professionals that development demands. Latin America graduates six professionals in the social sciences for every two in engineering and every one in the exact sciences. Visiting a Latin American university campus is like traveling to the past, to an era in which the Berlin Wall had yet to fall and Russia and China had yet to embrace capitalism. Instead of giving students practical tools -- such as technological and language skills -- to help them succeed in a globalized world, many schools devote themselves to teaching authors no one reads and repeating doctrines in which no one believes.
For development to occur, this has to change. Latin American countries must begin to reward innovators and creators. Their universities must reform their academic offerings and invest in science and technology. They must reduce burdensome regulations, attract investment, and promote the transfer of knowledge. In other words, they must understand that pragmatism is the new universal ideology -- that, as Deng Xiaoping once said, it does not matter whether a cat is black or yellow, as long as it catches mice.
DEVELOPING TRUST
The second obstacle is the absence of confidence. No development project can prosper in a place where suspicion reigns, the success of others is viewed with misgiving, and creativity and drive are met with wariness. Latin Americans are among the most distrustful people in the world. The World Values Survey asks the question, "Can most people be trusted?" In the year 2000, 55-65 percent of those people surveyed in four Nordic countries -- Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden -- said yes; only 16 percent of those people surveyed in Latin America did, and only three percent did in Brazil.
Latin Americans doubt the true intentions of all those who cross their paths, from politicians to friends. We believe that everyone has a secret agenda and that it is better not to get too involved in collective efforts. We are captives to a gigantic prisoner's dilemma in which each person contributes as little as possible to the common interest.
In a globalized world, however, trust is indispensable. The countries most ready to trust are the countries most ready to develop, because their citizens can base their actions on a reasonable expectation of how others will behave. Legal insecurity is a special problem. With alarming frequency, citizens of Latin American countries do not know what the legal consequences of their actions will be or how the state will react to their projects. In some countries, businesses are expropriated without any justification, permits are revoked because of political pressure, judicial verdicts fly in the face of the law, and the legal situation is so volatile that it impedes the attainment of long-term goals. As former Ecuadorian President Osvaldo Hurtado recently noted in The American Interest,
Latin Americans do not trust legal institutions and actors . . . whether government courts or private lawyers. Indeed, the deep-rooted, centuries-old custom of flouting the law has been a more powerful influence on the continent than the countless laws passed over the centuries to regulate economic, social and political relations. Latin American legislatures have probably passed more laws over the past 175 years than their counterparts anywhere on the planet, yet never have so many laws been ignored by so many for so long.
It has been said that legal security is the protection of trust. For economic development to succeed, Latin Americans must be able to trust their states to act reasonably and predictably. They must be able to anticipate the legal consequences of their actions. And they must be able to trust that others, too, will act in accordance with the rules of the game.
COMMITMENT TO DEMOCRACY
The third obstacle blocking development is the fragility of the Latin American commitment to democracy. To be sure, with the sole exception of Cuba, by some measures the region would be counted as entirely democratic today. After centuries of civil wars, coups, and dictatorships, democracy has indeed made remarkable strides in recent decades. But the truth is that its victory is incomplete. Despite carefully crafted constitutions, grand proclamations, and high-minded treaties, Latin America still has a soft spot for authoritarianism.
Fidel and Raúl Castro in Cuba behave like traditional Latin American caudillos -- but so do Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, who have used democratic processes and structures to subvert their countries' own democratic systems. Once elected, they interpreted their mandates as carte blanche to do whatever they wanted, including persecuting their opponents, shackling the media, and trying to twist the system so as to stay in power at all costs. Too many of their countries' citizens, meanwhile, are content to allow these leaders to proceed, perhaps seeing their messianism and demagoguery as the exit from the prevailing regional labyrinth of underdevelopment.
If Latin American democracies do not live up to their political and economic promise, if their citizens' hopes remain a dream deferred, then authoritarianism will rise again. The way to prevent that is to show the public that democracy works, that it truly can build more prosperous and equitable societies. Moving beyond political sclerosis, becoming more responsive to citizens' demands, and generating fiscal resources by taxing the wealthy are all essential steps to take in moving toward a true culture of liberty and progress.
A CULTURE OF PEACE
Increasing public income is necessary, but it is not sufficient. Those funds must also be spent wisely, to promote human development. Latin American countries have spent a lot in the past, running up immense debts, but they have often squandered their resources on inappropriate priorities. They have lavished on their armies the money that they should have lavished on their children.
Aside from Colombia, no country in Latin America faces an ongoing or imminent armed conflict. And yet each year, the region spends $60 billion on arms and soldiers -- double what it spent just five years ago. Why? Who is going to attack whom? The enemies of the people in the region are hunger, ignorance, inequality, disease, crime, and environmental degradation. They are internal, and they can be defeated only through smart public policy, not a new arms race.
Costa Rica was the first country in history to abolish its army and declare peace with the world. Its children have never known military service. They have never seen the shadow of an armored helicopter or the tracks of a tank. And since the abolition of its armed forces 62 years ago, Costa Rica has never suffered a coup. I would like to think that all of Latin America might follow in Costa Rica's footsteps, but I know that this utopia will not be possible in my lifetime. I also know, however, that a responsible and gradual reduction of military spending is not only possible but also imperative. We owe it to the victims of dictatorships, who during the twentieth century wrote with their own blood the saddest pages in Latin American history. We owe it to the survivors of oppression and torture. We owe it to those who saw their worst fears realized in the presence of a soldier.
Abandoning this martial culture is also essential because the increased presence of soldiers in our towns and cities promotes a combative attitude that does not favor development. It suggests that problems are best solved by fighting an enemy, rather than building in solidarity with friends and neighbors. It teaches that conquests are attained with weapons, shouts, and threats, as opposed to words, respect, and tolerance. The militarism of the region's culture is a regressive and destructive force, one that needs to be replaced with a culture of peace.
Latin Americans must look in the mirror and confront the reality that many of our problems lie not in our stars but in ourselves. We must lose our fear of change. We must embrace entrepreneurship. We must learn to trust. We must strengthen our commitment to democracy and the rule of law. And we must abandon the military practices that continue to rub salt into the wounds of our past. Only then will the region finally attain the development it has so long sought.
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Crushed Vertabrae In Canine
"Work is great," chapter of my book "Zest for Life"
Este es el primero de una serie of videos in which I comment very briefly the contents of some chapters of my latest book. Thanks
Episcopal Julian Rodriguez Orihuela, benefactor, who performed the arduous task of recording and editing this material.
Este es el primero de una serie of videos in which I comment very briefly the contents of some chapters of my latest book. Thanks
Episcopal Julian Rodriguez Orihuela, benefactor, who performed the arduous task of recording and editing this material.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Food That Make Voices Sweet To Sing
"Piracy? No, changing the world. Curriculum and profile
In the last decade, sales of albums in the United States accumulated a drop of over 50% and a decline in demand is not offset by a rise of digital formats. According to data provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, 95% of Internet music downloads worldwide continue to be illegal and what is more concern: in 2010, significantly reduced the growth of legitimate digital sales, with an annual rise of only 6%, against 12% who had registered in 2009.
of "Another blow to the business of music" in The Nation: here
In the last decade, sales of albums in the United States accumulated a drop of over 50% and a decline in demand is not offset by a rise of digital formats. According to data provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, 95% of Internet music downloads worldwide continue to be illegal and what is more concern: in 2010, significantly reduced the growth of legitimate digital sales, with an annual rise of only 6%, against 12% who had registered in 2009.
of "Another blow to the business of music" in The Nation: here
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Chs Haarglätter Sind Chs Haarglätter Gut?
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
2010 Problems With Poptropica
After giving a thousand and one back, frightened, intrigued, surprised and nseguros, finally, one morning we drop anchor and let the current initially guide our course.
The peculiarity of this plane is that it has no set route map. There
highways and shortcuts.
Any path may be the best, because all are good if you travel with the will and strong desire to advance.
Books Written By A Slave
Monday, February 7, 2011
Who Has The Biggest Boob In Bollywood
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Alice In Wonderland Monolog
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Implantation Bleedin A Week After Period
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Olimelt Composition And Side Effects
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