Thursday, December 17, 2009

Prawn Traps For Sale Bc

An easy read.


Good thing the framers of the website are given a tour Ñ, provided by The Guardian and blogs. Now comment on a post from Evan Maloney about speed reading and its implications. I make my own Christmas present and I have like 10 books on the bedside table to read. And although the temptation is to read one per day, like the TV series, I will enjoy them. Sums Ñ Evan Maloney's post :

read many books this year? How many this month? How many in a day? How many in an hour? In an era where speed is a virtue and efficiency neatly quantified commands: Do we have to learn to read again, to read faster? Some of this was asked yesterday in a blog of British daily The Guardian, Australian writer Evan Maloney. Maloney began his article by quoting an extreme case: the critic Harold Bloom. Bloom said that in its good times, I could read up to 1,000 pages per hour. Thousand pages per hour! "Jane Eyre could be digested during the lunch hour and still had time to chew half of Ulysses before returning to their classes," he laughs Maloney.Pero outside these phenomena, Maloney offers a fact: the average reader progresses through prose at a rate of 250-300 words per minute, which does not usually give even a page in the time that Bloom would be over 16. And the faster the average reader reads, the less you see. Why, asks the author, why rush to read, except to brag of what has been read. The question then is how have read those books, paying much attention. "Most speed reading courses teach people to read the words without forming the mental image of the corresponding sounds," says Maloney.Hay other method of speed reading , says the Australian. Is to identify the keywords of each sentence, a glance, and ignore the others. Maloney said he tried to do, reading Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy. Especially in the passages in which one character, Levin, displays his theories. "Part of my mind focused on thoughts and actions Levin says. "But another part is devoted to the process of speed reading. 'What are the words Password? 'I asked. "Sometimes, this question Maloney distracted him completely and felt that I had read several paragraphs without retaining nada.Claro, the problem is the concept of speed reading, reading key words, applied to literature. Do the greatest novelists in the world spent years suffering from the tone and rhythm of each word for a postmodern reader, concerned about stretch your time to go through them diagonally? "I do," Maloney responds. "The reading speed can be an effective tool for working papers, textbooks and letters of unrequited love, but the prose of great literature should be savored ... Right? Part of the pleasure of reading comes from 'listening' our psychic palate pronouncing the words in the ear of the mind. "It's not just, of course, this aesthetic pleasure. Also, if one is not Harold Bloom, is likely to lose much of the meaning of a work if he rushes for finish fast. "Read quickly is like trying to appreciate the view of Paris walking the streets at 200 miles per hour," says Maloney.Sí, Maloney ends this is the era in which we measure the speed of Internet connection in a split second and express feelings in SMS writing things like "tkm" (I love you). "But I am convinced that we should adjust our reading habits at the speed of modern life. In contrast, the reading should be a pleasure when the time is forgotten, even for a moment. "



Via: Moleskine Literary

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Congratulations With Pregnancy

Santiago Urban Landscape as Cirugeda


The rapid growth of our cities has created a fully legislated landscape and to which some are beginning to propose new strategies for use and occupancy.
Throughout history, the nature of cities has been forged in an intuitive way for its citizens. The recent demand for their growth has resulted, however, the expansion of avenues and the creation of visual perspectives that facilitate access by the authorities for increased surveillance and urban control. The question that remains open is whether there remains any possibility of incorporating those as old difficulties individual freedom that created our cities, if they can work within the framework urban regulations istics alive for a solution reflect contemporary social diversity.
As a way to protect historical sites, many cities have decided to close their streets to traffic and only allow free access to residents. On the other hand, to preserve the image of these areas, those same residents are required to keep the colors on the walls, determ use inados materials and constructive solutions, and rebuild in accordance with this order imposed. In a historic setting, therefore, the interio r of the city is subject to severe restrictions on people with a completely heterogeneous attitude toward to own body image, about how you see tir, their hairstyles, ta tuajes, coch is or mobile phones in div iduos that have become resigned ar even their intellectual and cultural beliefs. The freedom that citizens once had to modify its properties, and thus, the immediate environment, is now severely limited, and his attempt d and make a reform, building permits are denied automatically if the parameters are not met or regulations given. Under these circumstances of contemporary life in some places you can Egar ll be a pastiche of history stagnant. Lost

Street
face of this rigidity, the architect Santiago Cirugeda is reading between the lines of our cities urban planning to offer, without breaking the rules, some new possibilities of use by citizens damage. A scene of his work is historic center or Seville, where he lives, and q is c ue aracteriza by the extreme saturation of the soil and make a regulations to keep the environment as visualment and intact. Therefore, if the neighborhood would require a new urban element, such as a playground or an information center could be practically impossible to find a vacancy.
After studying urban policy, C irugeda projected a temporary olution s which he called "reclaim the streets" and that is the use of a dumpster redesigned as a play area, information point, reading room, exhibition space, flamenco or cantilever platform giant authorized an urban element which can be moved with easy ity. The architect studied the total cost of the operation and provided customers with a manual d and how to obtain permission from the Planning Department to install a Cuba. Once you have the permit, the dumpster can be placed and take the function required by customers. This action causes a funny reflection on urban rigidity should certainly be more accessible to citizen participation.

Build Shelters Urban
What happens when these same clients wish to expand their properties in the historic center of Seville? This implies that the citizen would have to do the work illegally. The expansion of one of these homes to make it habitable, a very common and widespread in ancient cities, would not get a license today works. A course of action suggested by Santiago Cirugeda is the use of scaffolding pa ra build on it a room.

This requires follow the simple procedure of asking the Planning Department a construction permit or men to paint the facade of the building to expand. Depending on the degree of heritage protection, the only requirement being ed respect the existing color. At this point, Cirugeda advised that if the facade does not need a hand d and paint, you can always paint some graffiti to justify the work. After taking leave, which can also be obtained without filling the box that defines the length of the work and thus make it last indefinitely, one can then build on the scaffold their urban retreat using shapes and materials according to your taste.
Another project is also held in Seville in solar eciclar r disused through removable prefabricated structures, which has allowed Cirugeda enjoy an office in different city locations. Heritage can do nothing against these architectures, objects because they are not regulated by those ordinances stylistic as Cirugeda complaint, "rig floor at the theme park which has become the old city." A contract for electrical connection made to an individual close to the site and operating a sanitary cabins are portable chemical some options that help make living these buildings urban nomads. The placement of a prefabricated module conforms to the course of Art 3.40.1.c spreading with removable, temporary facilities, the General Plan of Seville, who oversees the task of Specific Conservation and Solar Temporary Occupation. On the other hand, since our structure is an object capable of "transporting from one point to another without affecting the property to which he is himself something together" (Art. 335 of the Civil Code) and not being attached to the site "in a fixed but it can not be separated without breaking antamiento of matter or damage or URPOSE "(Art. 334.3 CC), plus it is not attached permanently or for the purpose of coming to be part of the estate, it is understood that we are clearly at a chattel. Therefore, the placement sequenced in the various sites chosen would be completely free and not be subject to any regulatory restriction that obliges us to seek permission.

Insect House / strategy
Tick Cirugeda When James was invited by the Alameda Viva platform to help prevent the cutting of The Alameda in Seville, he built the house-insect. Beyond being a haven of urban guerrilla situated on a tree and a housing protection against possible attacks with rubber bullets or water jet, the project helps "to remember that in the development of the city, individuals and groups still have a capacity, but diminished considerably, to act and decide on use and how to act on it. " Like previous projects, this is a solution that is not intended pr ovoce local authorities but to raise awareness among citizens with greater commitment to their habitat.
Cirugeda Santiago's work is an architecture that provides citizens with opportunities to use and participation in the construction of their environments, and thus of gaining freedom.

Captions:
A. Santiago Cirugeda, architect (b. 1971).
B. Children playing in his new playground of San Luis de la Calle Sevilla (1997).
C. The neighborhood got a meeting place for parties in the spring.
D. Manual how to obtain permission from the Planning Department for the installation of a container.
E. Through a scaffold room could temporarily extend the old orphanage of Calle Divina Pastora in Seville (1998).
F. "La Casa Insec or strategy to Tick" (Sevilla 2001) was a project of occupation trees that had wide circulation among media.
G. Interest architectural interior space occupying unused plots (Sevilla 2002).
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Strangling When Orgasm

30 Feria del Libro Ricardo Palma / the stupidity going where you are


Last Sunday I attended the Book Fair Ricardo Palma 2009 , who just believe that just ended and say it has been a failure, they have not sold much, they cursed the boto Masías Mayor of Miraflores and several things that make this show was a failure.

For me I am very fond of books, the reason "Personal" for which he was a failure (and I stress personal, because I do not think many will agree) is that without mentioning stands as the media / Arcadia, which make contact with the owner of Arcadia and told me a couple of books Koolhaas of which I am interested I arrived the next month and the Alianza Peruvian Publishers - ALPE , which bought a couple books and a magazine called: "Intermezzo Tropical 6 / 7 entitled Second Class Citizens / Not Discriminate " (which had that day) and maybe a couple more out there, all the stands selling the same, I find anywhere and even more bids were known as the old books and thousands of magazines of all kinds, which Quilca meeting and racing even more comfortable I get, there were also stands of the books are the latest sensation of the block, as the saga of vampire novels now out in film as Harry Potter at the time, the market ultimitos, you have to read to feel worship, which have the largest advertising at all bookstores and certainly in this Fair costs 5, 6 or 7 times more expensive than if bought in pirated version (because that piracy serves to make available the resources under culture / but that's another topic) in order to sell books.

Yes of course they sell books say curious because when I looked for a book of Burroughs , no one had of course, and when asked if they had "Hegemony and Survival" by Noam Chomsky or some other trial Political him, the man who took care of me told me annoyed face no sir these books are not sold here ", I thought to ask why if a book fair, and I said - these books do not sell - so the simple and forceful response.

understood that it is a show made for that, to sell, period, without interest people read or anything, now I understand why it was a failure, because such trade fairs is designed so that you walk you go, ask for a couple of books, see a couple of book launches and you see someone famous out there, you'll go home and feel worship, to buy a book and seller fool you and say: Ohhhh! Great choice sir, you. If it is worship, is the latest Best Sellers of this or that author, and if you read him or her that you are doing now and your film as you. It is worship, and you go up the ego and you feel you are part of Western culture these on a par with Negri and many others.

For those fairs that are to estupidizarte more, to become a part of the mass, the pile of pseudo - culture.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

8th Birthday Wording Invitation

Mujica won ... won the people ... Tim

Mujica, 74, who won the ballot by former center-right Liberal President Luis Lacalle, was one of the engines of political integration of the Tupamaros in the Uruguayan political system after the dictatorship (1973-1985). Also led the leftist coalition Frente Amplio in 1989.

was the first former guerrilla in joining the Chamber of Deputies in 1995, after the 1999 elections, came to the Senate along with former leader Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro tupamaro.

In the 2004 election, in which the left first came to the national government's hand Vázquez, Mujica-as the first senator from the most voted-had to open the legislature and take oath to their peers, including former President Julio Sanguinetti colorado (1985-1990 and 1995-2000), who applauded with fervor after invest it.