Sunday, August 22, 2010
How Many Calories Insausage Gravy
At the request of Gingko warm, my response public. It is not a defense response in the sense of attack, parry-thrust. Why do not I wanted to play in the duel. These are just some observations.
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Rereading
at 10 days after the first reading, I confess to portray a good part of the picture represented. Also admit that I was initially annoyed, but not offended or hurt. Moreover, it is always curious and alienating together to discover the self-image developed on the other. And because it reflects the image we want to give us, and because it reflects the image we have of ourselves. Above all, it can irritate the way they are given our opinions, beliefs and idiosyncrasies. Since we also know our "unsaid" is perceived as a manipulation guide which is actually an extrapolation of thumb in good faith. In fact, in some places I think you do me wrong.
First childbirth by a definition of my position stolen elsewhere: "I am a bourgeois Jacobin who believes in the virtues of public affairs and think that civic engagement is part of the elegance of existence." But yes, I am essentially bourgeois. I think in reality that does not give great contribution to the theoretical distinction between "bourgeois" / "blue collar" used inappropriately and in an arbitrary manner. We are all middle class and we are all workers.
I am absolutely convinced that our conflicting views find expression and acceleration in the concept of revolution.
is clear that I do not see the revolution as a single block are clearly identified, with a safe destination. I never "studied" ('Cause this is) the love of Jesus of Nazareth or love and revenge that dissolves the oppressed from their sufferings. And I is not sure how clear this process would be able to work and leave. It is definitely true that "his supreme confidence in the technique prevents him to draw on a credible happiness." I do not believe in heaven on earth.
But it is quite wrong to say that I see with this tone "of capitalist production in increasing the technical and the resulting change in the relationship between productive forces and relations of production, the necessary first step which preceded the emancipation of the proletariat." I confess frankly that I'm not very convinced nothing about it. However, I am convinced that the social production and the allocation of property rights can change radically without any change radically the human condition. As always, this will remain subject to economic management of material resources (meaning those in the most versatile possible) limited but that is not limited. Until the end of the world humanity will always have to deal with death, disease and marginalization. Yet this does not count. The possibility of reaching some ultimate happiness as you paint it you will not coincide with my vision of human nature and society: I do not deny that it is possible, however, deny that anyone could to assert convincingly that it is certainly feasible in this world (the only matter). Man and society are things too complicated for anyone who can boast a magic bullet.
Let me be clear, I do not think I have an answer. Surely not have the answer. Maybe you and the Situationist tradition of which you seem to have reason and spokespersons have the answer. From what little I read, I enjoyed. For my part I am afraid, however, that the leap in the use of happiness that buys the television is not the release in a nutshell, just a nice image of humanity, almost ironic, even offensive. For some fanatic instead is the slave who is put in chains.
I tell you what I disliked: liberal views who want the poor and oppressive society, good and the individual who aspires to realize its full potential, or the nature of which is torn. The speech comes down to this. I find that the Manichean and chock full of ambiguity. What
sketches, Gingko, there seems a sort of return to mother nature, full of literary influences. The reality is that what he sketches here is not a social project. But only pertains to your salvation.
I find that there is no reason to reject technological progress, economic development. I think that we can not look at the history erasing what was there and there, and that the current is always the basis from which you must leave, for good or evil. To this must be known, studied and understood. In this, one can not go beyond an economic discourse that specifies a bit 'more about what "radical destabilization." Nor can transcend political transformation, anthropological, which must be a re-appropriation of self, rather than imposing ideological (only deleterious). In this culture, at least during the transition, can and must take the lead. A guide in the Harmony can not contribute.
Humanity, this is the goal, to steal as much as possible of the economic forces unleashed and which is governed. Turns to her advantage, rather than be enslaved. Mind you, the economic forces of which we speak should always and only be half. The aim must be the man. Mattia
can feel created by the construction of robotic stilts, and you're not anyone to stop bragging that the natural virtues of the body. Because of this you are talking about.
"At a time when the company discovered that it depends on the economy, the economy in fact depends on it. This underground power has grown up to appear sovereign, has thus lost its power. Where was the economic example, must be the "I".
The relaxation of the mesh social objective that we have no means exclusive, must be annotated on the basis of an overall vision of man and society.
confess still feel too ignorant to tackle any project for reform. Yet I think that trial and error is something pot would do.
Alceverde.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Emt Training Michigan
Yugo-nostalgia
The Museum of the City of Zagreb is a cramped room dedicated to the war of the nineties. The facts are summarized in a caption of some thirty lines, where it says that Croatia "had to go to war" and he mentions the operation Storm of 4 and 5 August 1995 in which it regained the territories previously occupied by the Serbian army. A video shows a few episodes of the conflict: Pope John Paul II blesses the troops, soldiers with camouflage colors repaint buses and armed with welding machine, turn in armored vans. I leave with the feeling of being mocked: You want to believe that the Croats have rejected Milosevic's army because of their ability to DIY? No mention, for example, Military Professional Resources Inc., the U.S., with the approval of the Clinton administration, provided staff training and the Croatian army, nor is mention made of Croatian generals Gotovina, Cermak and Markač, on trial at the Court International Hague for war crimes committed during the operation.
I try to understand more than the war in Ljubljana, going to see the documentary The road of unity and fraternity Maja Weiss. B51 The road was built after the Second World War from 3,000 technical and 54,000 volunteers of the Communist Youth to affirm the unity of Yugoslavia. The director has recounted in 1998, from Slovenia to Macedonia, to record the nostalgia and hatred, and to reconnect the broken links from the current communication difficulties. One of the young people who worked on the construction of the road says, "We were happy and convinced that we would live together in peace and forever. The way things are today, is no longer possible. "Another:" Nostalgia is not for the old state, is for youth, when life was good. "
One interviewee tells a joke: a Kosovar Albanian ask a Montenegrin: "How come you are 500,000 and have an independent state and two million of us who do not have one?" Do not worry - the answer is - when there will be 500,000 along to you. "
Mojca, a precious friendship born in a hostel in Rio de Janeiro, is very busy with his doctoral thesis in aesthetics, but finds time to take me to the Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia for the exhibition on Plakatna Afera or scandal of 1987 posters. Every year we celebrate Tito's birthday, May 25, with a relay race in which the Communist Youth traveled the country before coming to Belgrade and to pay tribute to the President. The republics of the federation in turn hosted the start of the torch relay and preparing and posters for the event. In 1987, in a climate already independent, this task falls to Slovenia. The jury chose the designated poster Novi Kolektivizem proposed by the study: a man, young, blond, wielding the baton, on which is carved the tower of the parliament in Ljubljana, while the other hand holding a flag of Yugoslavia, where the auction is topped by a white dove. The sketch was published by the newspaper "Politika" and a reader pointed out that it was revising Thirty years of work of German designer Richard Klein: The Nazi flag was replaced with the Yugoslav and the eagle with the dove. The study is part of Novi Kolektivizem with other artists as the music group Laibach (Ljubljana in German), the collective Slowenische Neue Kunst. They work on the aesthetics of power and submission with reference to the thesis of the Slovenian psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek. The intent of subverting the totalitarianism is not achieved by the criticism, the complaint ol'ironia, but, according to a strategy sovraidentificazione through the staging, without taking away the symbols of which have served the Nazi regimes, the socialism real, the capitalist West and the recent nationalisms. NSK has built the foundation of its formal aesthetics with reference to the artistic avant-garde of the twenties, as did the political ideologies of the twentieth century. The viewer is led to experience the desire of submission that sparked the mad followers of the various forms of totalitarianism, in which he is forced to look at himself. The acquisition of this knowledge is, in the intentions of the collective, the only tool available for ensuring that history will repeat itself in the emergence of repressive systems.
The day ends at a table in a cafe overlooking the square dedicated to the French Revolution. Here was erected a monument to the Unknown Soldier in the Napoleonic Army, "grave pour notre liberté." Bostian works at the Slovene national television and tells me of a pub that everyone calls "Bangladesh." Years ago, "back in the socialist era" says Bostian, a television crew, which is based opposite the pub, was sent to Bangladesh to cover a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement, and before going to the airport, the journalists went the pub, got drunk and lost the plane. Some hours later the director of television and the phone rang in the pub was raised by one of its journalists drunk. The director, surprised, asked, "Where are you?" and the answer was: "In Bangladesh,"
Train Ljubljana to Thessaloniki is an antique, at least fifty years old, which can meet the claims of the most demanding lover of the "battered the Balkans" compartments of the truck bed on one side have three bunk beds, a sink near the window is hidden by the mirror to shave and down the hall There is a chair that is the location of the controller, from which he can see if you turn on the red lights that indicate the calls of the passengers. The controller that I will smoke the lot fell sigh and complain all night. Throughout the car there are only five passengers, all over sixty years, and up to Belgrade will not rise any more.
I leave the station in Belgrade at seven in the morning and walked to the center. A few hundred yards away, along the way Nemanjina are clearly visible two buildings gutted by the NATO bombing of 1999. This is the first time I visit a country that Italy has attacked militarily in my lifetime.
The center was built at the confluence of the Danube and the confluence of the Sava and fruit are the impressions that I collect during my walks around the city. Knez Mihailova pedestrian zone is cosmopolitan, its sides are Central European style architecture that has the offices of Italian banks and its spine is a row of outdoor cafes, contemporary version, sponsored by American and German beers drinks of coffee Ottomans. The percentage of smokers is very high, inside and outside the premises, and the Museum of Applied Arts is hosting an exhibition entitled Ars Fumandi . The same museum, a retrospective at the French designer Charlotte Perriand, while at the Gallery of Contemporary Art There Breaking Step , contemporary British art exhibition. Here the group Henry VIII's Wives exhibited his works based on the draft Monument to the Third International Tatlin secure the Novaya Galerija Tretyakov in Moscow. There are, then, their photographs in the series Iconic Moments of the 20 th Century and the equally intelligent work Chozko Adam, Nathan Coley, Jeremy Deller and the collective Inventory. If pedestrian and art galleries suggest central Europe, Another aspect of Belgrade me back in Moscow: the beauty and elegance of women; unforgettable a beautiful girl with a lovely emerald green satin blouse, sleeveless and with a showy ribbon closure on left shoulder.
The corridors of power are great, as befitted the realm of the southern Slavs born after the First World War and the Republic of Tito, who was a military and diplomatic power. In comparison, a state that Serbia now seems, put in a washing machine at the wrong came out tight. The Ethnographic Museum, however, "aims to show the unity of the Serbian people gathered around objects sacred places which, for centuries, gave their ethnic and cultural power of attraction "and exhibited at the map shows how" Serb areas "most of Bosnia and Croatia, and Kosovo, and the Banat up Arad and Temesvar. Let me know the official version of events that led to the dissolution of Yugoslavia, but the Yugoslav History Museum is closed indefinitely. Provo at the Museum of Military History. In the last room contains weapons and equipment of the "Albanian terrorists in Kosovo ', the' rebel Croatian 'and the crew of a downed U.S. fighter in 1999, along with photographs of civilians killed during the bombing of city \u200b\u200bof Nis by NATO. There is also a reliquary containing depleted uranium shells used by NATO troops. The captions indicate the origin of the seized weapons to Croatia and men of the KLA (USA, Germany, Slovenia), but does not mention either the origin or evolution of the conflict between Serbia and NATO.
Monday, August 16, 2010
My Cat Has An Upper Respiratory Problem
The city prostitute
The return trip to Europe was insignificant, as any movement by air, and most importantly I had to part with Gianmaria and Barbara. Now I'm here in Brno Josef Hoffmann studied here and was imprisoned Pellico. The Czech Republic is familiar to me, not because there are already, but because the roads, buildings, parks, trams, people have something that I would call in Turin. Why do I feel this feeling in Brno and Warsaw? That is the model city that I absorbed over time?
European cities are born, in Roman or medieval, like enclosed spaces, other than what's out there. Look for the regularity of orthogonal or the presence of the walls that follow and amplify the curves of the hills on which it stands, the space inside them is organized and tidy.
This certainly conveys a sense of security, the city does not confuse us, nay, it is easy to navigate, and protects from external disorder, whatever their origin may be. Free from these concerns, orientation and external dangers, people do not start from scratch in their construction of a world in which to express individual and at the same time, find meaning to their activities. Secure the foundations of this world are already laid. We can now devote to what is within himself, at the same time, deeper and more refined, and this painting, architecture, trade or otherwise.
It is clear that over the centuries sediment layers, which strengthen the foundation and, thus, allow searches boldest of the new generations of citizens: the Gothic cathedrals, parks, subways, skyscrapers and shopping centers are all improvements that are made to the basic structure.
What happens to the traveler that reaches the walls, real or ideal, of the city? It offers the protection and restoration, but he wants something in return. The shows and asks to be admired. Hospitality is also made of this: one acts generously to build a good reputation, which in turn can be spent to ensure that hospitality is reciprocated or an added value, a kind of origin marking for products that depart from that city to be sold worldwide.
For example, what Paris gives the traveler in terms of charm and well-being, he moved to the more or less luxurious items which are then purchased by those who wish, through the object, experience the atmosphere lived along the Seine. The city itself can be transformed into products, traded on the tourism market, as well as in Paris knows how long this field.
In summary, the city created a distinguished and ordered space, holds and protects, it shows, for sound and prudent calculation vanity.
Now, what kind of citizens are the source of the city that I have described? Let's step back: the functions to which the city serves are those that meet the needs of its inhabitants. So, fear of chaos and external dangers, natural and / or human, must be present. I citizens, then, must also feel the need to build a good reputation, an attractive image, must, in short, feel the need to please others, to impress them. If their power, understood simply as the ability to survive and reproduce, is based on the use of force, we would not have cities, but inaccessible fortresses, built to intimidate.
arises because the city must be people who base their power on the contact and exchange with strangers, to whom they should give something, such as to inspire trust, in exchange for what they need. Obviously, I'm describing the commercial classes, which heads also that particular type of business that is diplomacy, as the exchange of political favors.
is so that citizens, through their judges, technicians rely on the task of building the city that, because of their shape, push foreigners to spend their money.
I'm trying to show that there is no city where there is no merchant class, then attempt a rebuttal. You can talk about neighborhoods in the city for housing in the capitalist world, remains to Soviet planning or urban agglomerations in Mexico or the Middle East? In their inhabitants, as employed or unemployed, there is no need to "pleasure": what economic benefits they derive from spending money to beautify the neighborhoods in which they live? Their salary would not increase even more, it would be an impoverishment.
what to build, however, traders from nineteenth-century industrialization? First, avenues, boulevards , which are no longer the narrow streets of medieval cities. It is not just a matter of meters, the path forward security and trust, anyone is welcome. Second difference: on the road no longer overlook the shops, in used to produce what you sell, but the shops, the production has been moved to other areas of the city. This fact adds elegance and coquetry of the road, which can thus become a place of ostentation which outlines the social status.
serves the same purpose, the spread of coffee, theater, cinema and other forms of entertainment, replacing the old parties they have fun together once a year.
Both in Anglo-French and the German and Austro-Hungarian railway stations become new points of the compass and the Avenue of the station is one of the main arteries, or even the principal for a walk. Spread quality architecture in private and the presence of districts in which the cams are confined and exhibited at the same time.
The Ethnographic Museum in Budapest seems to support theories that Jarrek and I have developed: highlight the emergence of the middle class to the middle of the nineteenth century and the consistency of the Calvinist component, which in 1890 represented 30% of Hungarians . Reformation and the middle class: the result is that Budapest is not Warsaw, because since 1808 the Archduke Joseph of Hapsburg had established the Commission for Landscaping city, in order to set a schedule that would prevent an urban sprawl.
, I think the Mexico City, Jerusalem and Warsaw are not true of cities like Turin, Milan, Trieste, Budapest, Barcelona and Brno, because I introjected models of the second industrial revolution and I look for in a city possession, and to secure payment of beauty.
Bratislava does not offer much in terms of art, but is very generous with those who want to walk in busy pedestrian streets and dine at outdoor restaurants in the historic center. The office information knows that mass tourism is directed to where they can meet basic needs in its brochures and reports the bar frequented "by Some of Bratislava's hottest women." For me, this stage marks the return to the Danube and I try to celebrate the winery Klastorna described by Claudio Magris Danube in his . Neither the brochure referred to above nor the international guides the appointment and I assume that this is not a place for love affairs or booze at low cost. I find, as the name suggests, under the cloister of the Franciscan church. It is friendly and the wine list is tempting, but, because of this, I do not feel like cenarci alone. I opt for a restaurant low vaults, with lots of photos on the walls and a bustle tourist permit, waiting for the food, relax and not feel lonely.
After dinner, I discover, behind the cathedral of San Michele, a deserted square: a staircase separates it from the busy street and there stands a building is not restored, perhaps the only one left in the center. Its walls are crumbling and the windows sealed with panels painted with subjects drawn from the paintings of Van Gogh, silhouettes of dogs and, on the ground floor, a stairway trompe l'oeil . There are no distractions, loneliness is inevitable.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Temperature Sensor For Body
Rossiya
leave Ulan Ude to Rossiya , the train connecting Moscow to Vladivostok. Through the window, a profusion of still water that reflected the sky and the forests, but many of the conifers are sick. For the seven hundred kilometers railway runs along the Amur River, which is the border with China. This region was occupied by the Russians in the forties of the nineteenth century, when they discovered that the Chinese had left unguarded. Until a few years ago, the compartments with foreigners on board were darkened and locked.
also through the Jewish Autonomous Region, a state created by Stalin in 1927 to provide a "home" to the Russian Jews. We settled on 43,000. Anti-Semitism of the thirties, however, led to the banning of the Hebrew language and the closure of the synagogue. In 1991 there were still 22,000 Jews, which fell to 4,800 after the reopening of relations between Russia and Israel and the consequent emigration to other Jewish state.
The train enters the station of Vladivostok on time, the 9289 km Trans-Siberian. Once out on the forecourt, we see that here all the cars driving on the right. What in Moscow, Ekaterinburg and again, it was an isolated event has gradually become more frequent, to be the norm. The reason is understandable: it is used Japanese cars that come by ship to Vladivostok and here they are resold at discount prices. Not explained, however, because the authorities tolerate the phenomenon, given the high number of motor vehicle accidents that seems to be common in Russia.
rent a car to drive on the left to go to meet Gaivoron Victor Yudin. It is a scientist who, with his wife, keep animals in danger of extinction and then rid the forest of Primorije the puppies can be born. A house of Dr. Yudin there are also children of the local elementary school. Evenly split their curiosity among animals and the three strange people who speak an incomprehensible language instead of Russian. Victor shows us two Amur tigers with their puppy about a year, a family of bears from the collar, a pair of lynxes, foxes, wild cats and raccoons. A bear and a lynx have lost a leg in a trap. Poachers are, in fact, the mortal danger to these animals, especially tigers, sought by the Chinese to manufacture products of traditional medicine.
Animals and Russian men seem to have shared the fear of the Chinese. Estimates official Kremlin talk of a million Chinese have settled illegally in the Far East Russia, compared to four million Russians. Independent sources, however, argue that the illegal Chinese migrants were already a million and a half. Alex, our guide and interpreter on this trip, we did find, Vladivostok and Ussurijsk, which markets the Chinese invasion, both of sellers of goods, total. Meat, fruit and vegetables are imported from China and the wide spaces between one city to another are not cultivated or pasture. A little 'because it is cheaper to import Chinese goods and a bit', according to Alexandra, for decades the Soviets have eradicated the desire to work. The Soviet period did not like it at all, even if born in the early eighties. Near Ussurskj we moved next to a monument that celebrates the ultimate victory of the Red on White in 1922. Alexandra said that this region of Russia had no need of communism, as area was developed thanks to strong foreign investment. Japanese and Americans supported the Whites, but in the end, he concludes, "we lost."
On the way back once again admire the monumental stones, concrete and metal, which mark the beginning of the city. Along with the coats of arms are an area in which the Soviets excelled and of which traces have been valuable. For the rest, Siberia seems to me that almost nothing remained of the seventy-year history of the USSR, even if they have gone only fifteen of its dissolution. There are no statues of Lenin, the names of some streets and buildings of the popular suburbs, in addition to the nostalgia of a few people like Olga. For all other Russians and for all aspects of daily life, the world seems started ten years ago. Some items, like the samovar, give the impression to exist forever, while everything else is made in Japan or made in China in 2000.